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When you think of Bill Cosby, you think Cliff Huxtable, Jell-O and you know the old grandfatherly type who’s always airing out his concern for the next generation of Black folks. But there just might be more to America’s favorite father. And it’s pretty dark.

Last week, during one of his standup comedy routines, Hannibal Buress, a comedian, in referencing Cosby’s criticisms of the Black community, stated that it was pretty much invalidated by the fact that he “rapes women.”

He said: “It’s even worse because Bill Cosby has the fuckin’ smuggest old black man persona that I hate. He gets on TV, ‘Pull your pants up black people, I was on TV in the 80s! I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom!’ Yeah, but you rape women, Bill Cosby, so turn the crazy down a couple notches.

I guess I want to just at least make it weird for you to watch Cosby Show reruns…I’ve done this bit on stage and people think I’m making it up… when you leave here, google ‘Bill Cosby rape.’ That shit has more results than ‘Hannibal Buress.”

Whoa!

But if you take Hannibal’s advice and google that phrase, you’ll see quite a bit of information, complete with graphic details about how Cosby allegedly drugged and assaulted or raped at least 13 women. There were 13 women who came forward with allegations that Cosby had drugged, assaulted or raped them…or a combination of the three.

First there was La’Chele Covington in 2000. She performed small, non-speaking parts on “The Cosby Show” and claimed that Cosby fondled her breasts and exposed himself to her in his home when he instructed her to come there for career advice.

Then there was Andrea Constand in 2005. Constand, 40, was a former Temple University (Cosby’s alma mater) worker who accused Cosby of drugging her and then sexually molesting her in 2004. She’s the one who brought in the names of other witnesses who had similar stories of sexual assaults and drugging. The legal action resulted in the case being settled out of court in 2006.

While the other witnesses were listed as Jane Doe, Tamara Green, a former attorney, was very open about her experiences with Cosby. She claimed though he assaulted her in the ’70’s she felt empowered to come forward after she learned it had happened to so many other women since then.

Earlier this year she told Newsweek

“He asked me to help him raise capital for a club he wanted to start. One day, I called him to cancel a meeting because I was feeling really sick, and he said, “Why don’t you come over to this restaurant I’m at, you’ll feel better if you have lunch.” I sat down, and he gave me what he said was two pills of [an over-the-counter cold medicine]. I swallowed them, and 20 minutes later I felt terrific; 30 minutes later, I was face-down in my soup. He volunteered to take me home. And then, because I was so ill, he volunteered to undress me and put me to bed. I started fighting him — I took a lamp and broke a window. He finally left. When I woke up, I saw that he left two 100-dollar bills on the table next to my front door. I was so sincerely and deeply infuriated that, even through the drugs…. I was crazed. I wanted to rip his neck off.

The next day, I went to go visit my brother, who was in the terminal ward at a children’s hospital. Cosby, smart man that he is, had been to the hospital to give presents to the kids. By the time I got to the hospital, my brother was glowing that the great Bill Cosby had given him a portable radio.”

And now, after Hannibal’s recent comments, Barbara Bowman, who was an aspiring actress and model at the time of her alleged rape and also a part of the 2006 trial, has come forward.

She spoke in disturbing detail with the Daily Mail about her alleged assault, calling Cosby a “serial rapist.”

Bowman, a teenager at the time, said that Cosby knew she didn’t have a father and used that information to manipulate her.

“I was drugged and raped by that man. He is a monster. He came at me like a monster. My hope is that others who have experienced sexual abuse will not be intimidated into silence by the famous, rich and powerful. If I can help one victim, then I’ve done my job.

Bowman says that now that Cosby is set to come back to television, portraying a loving father, it sickens her.

“Maybe he should teach his fictitious TV family how to escape the talons of sexual predators. Bill used to tell me that he was my father figure and that I needed to trust him as a father, 100 percent. Then he’d drug me and attack me. I was too afraid to talk back.” 

While other victims of Cosby’s assault are legally bound from speaking out against him, Bowman never took the money.

“I never took shut up money. My motivation to speak now is to expose Bill Cosby as the animal that he is. He went after me in that hotel room like an animal with such sexual prowess and force that he couldn’t control himself. And at 19-years-old, I knew it would be the last time he would ever get the chance to hurt me this way again.”

Bowman’s perverted relationship with Cosby began when her agent, a friend of Cosby’s, told her she had an opportunity to work under his tutelage.

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