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The mother of the main accuser in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial told the jury on Wednesday that the disgraced US megastar admitted in a telephone conversation 12 years ago that "he was a sick man."
In one of the US' biggest celebrity trials in years Sebastien Cibois Saint-Germain Jersey , the 79-year-old pioneering black comedian faces three counts of aggravated indecent assault, which each carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in jail and a $25,000 fine.
Around 60 women have publicly accused the Emmy-winning television star and comedian of being a serial sexual predator in remarkably similar accusations that span four decades, ending his career and shredding his reputation.
But his fate rests on the allegations of just one, 44-year-old Canadian massage therapist Andrea Constand Jean-Christophe Bahebeck Saint-Germain Jersey , who alleges that he drugged and sexually assaulted her at his Philadelphia mansion in January 2004.
On Wednesday, Constand's mother Gianna told the third day of the trial in Norristown, Pennsylvania that she and her daughter spoke to Cosby for more than two hours by telephone about a year after the alleged assault.
"I wish I had recorded it," she testified. During the conversation, Cosby admitted to giving her daughter pills and touching her private parts Kevin Rimane Saint-Germain Jersey , but was "trying to lead me to believe that it was consensual," Constand's mother said.
She accused the actor of having tried to "manipulate" her and offering to pay for Andrea to go to therapy. "I got very aggressive. I was very rude. I wanted to know what he gave her," she said.
"She viewed him as a father," she added. "He betrayed her."
"The only thing I'd like from you is an apology," she said she told him during their conversation.
'Changed your story'
"I apologize to Andrea and I apologize to you mommy Stanley N'Soki Saint-Germain Jersey ," she quoted Cosby as having said in reply. "He admitted that he was a sick man." After an hour on the stand, Constand broke down in tears, burying her head in her hands.
Cosby, one of the towering figures of US popular culture in the second half of the 20th century, was once adored by millions as "America's Dad" for his seminal role as a lovable father and obstetrician on hit TV series The Cosby Show.
The defense grilled Andrea Constand earlier on Wednesday for nearly five hours Moussa Diaby Saint-Germain Jersey , focusing on inconsistencies in her past testimony, on which much of the case rests in what experts say will boil down to her word against his.
Constand says she went to his home to seek career advice after coming to regard the pioneering black comedian, movie actor and television star as a mentor.
Cosby says that he gave Constand the antihistamine Benadryl only to relieve stress, insisting that their sexual relations were consensual and accusing her of lying.
Defense lawyer Angela Agrusa zeroed in on statements Constand gave to police in early 2005.
She originally said the alleged assault took place on March 16, 2004 and initially failed to disclose other meetings with Cosby.
"You changed your story Colin Dagba Saint-Germain Jersey ," Agrusa told Constand in the Montgomery County Court as Cosby sat in court averting his gaze from his accuser.
During breaks, the defendant - who maintains that he is legally blind - appeared upbeat and exchanged pleasantries with the aide accompanying him.
'Bath salts?'
Just weeks after the alleged assault, Constand joined Cosby at a dinner with other guests and gave him a present on behalf of one of her friends.
"You're coming to the man that assaulted you and you're bringing him bath salts?" Agrusa asked.
Constand maintained her cool, correcting statements she thought inaccurate, speaking firmly Antoine Bernede Saint-Germain Jersey , often looking at the 12 jurors directly and smiling regularly.
After the defense had finished, assistant district attorney Kristen Feden counter-attacked, hammering home certain key points.
Asking Constand to read passages from her evidence in 2005, she emphasized that if she made various mistakes and omissions here and there, her detailed account of the alleged assault itself had not changed.
"You did not consent Dani Alves Saint-Germain Jersey ," Feden said three times, to which Constand replied in the affirmative each time.
Thirty years old at the time, Constand was director of women's basketball at Temple University, where Cosby sat on the board of trustees.
KABUL, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- One soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed in an attack in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday.
"An International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) service member died following an attack by enemy forces in southern Afghanistan today Alec Georgen Saint-Germain Jersey ," the ISAF said in a statement.
The statement gave neither the nationality of the victim nor the details about the incident under the ISAF policy.
Currently more than 87,000 NATO-led coalition troops with nearly 60,000 of them Americans are deployed in the country to stop the Taliban militants from returning to power.
Casualty of Tuesday's attack brought the number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan to 141 this year.
In an unrelated incident, eight Afghan civilians, including four children Kevin Trapp Saint-Germain Jersey , were wounded when a remote control bomb went off in a market in Pashton Zarghon district of the country's western province of Herat earlier on Tuesday, deputy provincial police chief Abdul Hamid Hamidi told Xinhua.
He blamed Taliban insurgents for the attack.
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