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Harrowing opening statements kick off Cosby trial... http://ift.tt/2rLYBCL NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby “shattered” the squeaky-clean image he built as fun-loving TV dad Dr. Cliff Huxtable when he drugged and molested a young protégé more than 10 years ago, prosecutors charged Monday. In opening statements on the first day of his sexual assault trial, prosecutor Kristen Gibbons-Feden portrayed the 79-year-old comedian as a sexual predator who preyed on alleged victim Andrea Constand after she turned to him for advice. “Celebrities, as a whole, we celebrate them. They become larger than life … we feel that we know them, who they are. And that’s especially true of figures like Bill Cosby, also known as Dr. Huxtable,” said Gibbons-Feden in the media-filled courtroom in Montgomery County. “That man, in that illusion, of all those roles he played on television, that illusion was shattered.” Cosby kept his eyes glued on the prosecutor as she detailed to jurors how Constand was left “completely paralyzed” after Cosby gave her three blue pills at his home near Philadelphia in January 2004. “’These three friends will help you relax.’ His words from his voice,” Gibbons-Feden said. “Trust
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