A model who claims she was drugged and sexually abused by Bill Cosby has met with police in LA, to determine whether criminal charges could be filed. according to Chloe Goins, now 24,
The alleged incident happened at the Playboy Mansion six years ago. She is the first woman to accuse Cosby of abuse whose case may fall within the US statute of limitations, meaning potentially he could be charged.
Cosby faces a number of allegations by women dating back to the ’70s and ’80s. The comedian, who has not been charged, has denied previous claims, calling them “fantastical” and “uncorroborated”.
Ms Goins claims that when she was 18, she was drugged and sexually assaulted by Mr Cosby while attending a party at Hugh Hefner’s mansion in Los Angeles in 2008. She claims she passed out at the party and woke up in a bedroom, naked, with Mr Cosby standing over her. Over the past three months, more than a dozen women have come forward alleging that Cosby had sexually abused them.
Many of those allegations are decades old and fall outside California’s eight-year statute of limitations for criminal or civil cases. There have been calls for Mr Cosby to waive the statute.
LA police commander Andrew Smith said he could not confirm any investigation into Mr Cosby and that sexual abuse cases were “extremely confidential.”