{"id":36348,"date":"2018-04-11T01:19:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T23:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/04\/11\/bill-cosby-retrial-first-accuser-describes-being-drugged-before-days-of-attacks\/"},"modified":"2018-04-11T01:19:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T23:19:34","slug":"bill-cosby-retrial-first-accuser-describes-being-drugged-before-days-of-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=36348","title":{"rendered":"Bill Cosby retrial: first accuser describes being drugged before days of attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of six accusers scheduled to take stand in Pennsylvania recalls only \u2018snapshots\u2019 of consciousness over a four-day periodThe first of six Bill Cosby accusers has taken the witness stand at his retrial in Pennsylvania, recalling in disturbing detail how she was allegedly lured to the comic\u2019s house in Reno, Nevada, made to consume an unidentified soporific and then attacked over four days of semi-consciousness.Heidi Thomas, from Castle Rock, Colorado, took the 12 men and women of the jury back to 1984, when she was 24 and hoping to build a career in musical theater. While she was still seeking a break in the entertainment business, her agent, the late Annie Maloney of JF Images, contacted her and said an icon in the industry, whom she referred to only as \u201cMr C\u201d, was looking for \u201cpromising young talent\u201d to mentor. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/apr\/10\/bill-cosby-retrial-heidi-thomas-accuser\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Cosby retrial: first accuser describes being drugged before days of attacks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of six accusers scheduled to take stand in Pennsylvania recalls only \u2018snapshots\u2019 of consciousness over a four-day periodThe first of six Bill Cosby accusers has taken the witness stand at his retrial in Pennsylvania, recalling in disturbing detail how she was allegedly lured to the comic\u2019s house in Reno, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}