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Article snippet: • On the second day of the criminal trial of Bill Cosby, the complainant, Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee, testifed tearfully about the night in 2004 when she says he drugged and sexually assaulted her at his home outside Philadelphia. • Ms. Constand told prosecutors in Norristown, Pa., that she had trusted Mr. Cosby and kept in contact with him even after the incident because he was a powerful trustee at the university where she worked. • Mr. Cosby has said the sex was consensual and his lawyers aggressively challenged her credibility during cross examination. • Earlier Tuesday, the prosecution called two witnesses to testify in support of Kelly Johnson, a woman who on Monday said that Mr. Cosby had also drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1996. • One witness was Ms. Johnson’s mother and the other was a lawyer who both said Ms. Johnson had described an attack to them. Facing Mr. Cosby for the first time in 12 years, she cried as she testified that after she rebuffed his sexual advances, this man she had admired and looked to for guidance drugged and sexually assaulted her. Ms. Constand, the crucial witness at the criminal trial of Mr. Cosby, told a jury that in early 2004, when she was 30 years old and he was 66, he invited her to his home near Philadelphia, where he handed her three blue pills and wine to wash them down. “He said ‘These will help you relax,’” she said. “‘They are your friends. They will take the edge off.’” Her voice catc... Link to the full article to read more