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Quote, it is a completely illogical that so many people would have said nothing, done nothing, and made no reports. >> when it happened to me, there was no such thing as date rape. i never even heard of someone being drugged and raped. >> wife of hollywood producer alan lad said bill cosby assaulted her in 1969. >> i never even thought of going to the police. i wasnt even a thought in my mind. rape was done by somebody in the street. >> i didnt report my sexual assault because i blamed myself. >...

>> when it happened to me, there was no such thing as date rape. i never even heard of someone being drugged and raped. >> wife of hollywood producer alan lad said bill cosby assaulted her in 1969. >> i never even thought of going to the police. i wasnt even a thought in my mind. rape was done by somebody in the street. >> i didnt report my sexual assault because i blamed myself. >> many of the women, like janice baker kenny, said they felt too ashamed to come forward sooner. >> i one of the few...

Public. in a 2005 deposition in another lawsuit accusing cosby of sexual assault, mr. cosby acknowledged obtaining drug with the intention of having sex with women. his lawyers say he never drugged women without their knowledge or had sex with them without consent. many of the women who accused cosby have come forward last year and last night on nbcs "dateline," 27 of the accusers appeared together in an interview with nbc news kate snow. it explained why it took some of them decades to come for...

Cosbys attorney has said, quote, it is completely illogical that so many people would have said nothing, done nothing and made no reports. >> when it happened to me, there was no such thing as like date rape. id never even heard of somebody being drugged and raped. >> syndra ladd said cosby raped her in 1989. >> i never even thought of rape. rape was done to somebody on the street. >> i didnt report my sexual assault because i blamed myself. >> many said they felt too ashamed to come forward soo...

They woke up naked or during a rape. so just those stories and also the way the women thought about what happened to them. a lot of the incidents happened in the 60s and 70s when there wasnt the vocabulary to talk about it. date rape had not been coined. no one knew acquaintance rape. they felt horrible. many blamed themselves. they told people but never thought of coming forward. they didnt think of it as rape. they thought, you know a night gone very badly with a famous guy. >> you do a good j...

Bill cosby wants to mentor me. you show up here, do a line reading and in many cases they said their drinks were drugged, they woke up naked or during a rape. so just those stories and also the way the women thought about what happened to them. a lot of the incidents happened in the 60s and 70s when there wasnt the vocabulary to talk about it. date rape had not been coined. no one knew acquaintance rape. they felt horrible. many blamed themselves. they told people but never thought of coming for...

Accusers, quotes from them, what they have to say, but even more than that it goes into really an expose about sexual assault and rape as it has evolved through the years because 1960s are when the earliest accusations of sexual assault, the latest 2001 20 -- one 2008. bill cosby has never been charged or convicted of any crime at all of sexual assault, but one thing thats interesting, we have a quote from joan tarshis from this article who you have seen on cnn many times. she says, quote, i did...

But this sort of sad sisterhood thats emerged among the alleged survivors of these assaults. >> i think even just knowing there were other people out there made it easier for these women. for years they hadnt even had language to talk about them. date rape as the term didnt exist in the 60s and 70s. and a lot of theme used language of having bottled it up inside and it all came flooding out and they were able to do that together. that was major for them. >> to that end, jess. we live in a countr...

People account whobl love, cherish and care about each other. >> then you have the additional issue of who monitors this activity. the practical reality of this issue of consent, who decides when youre no longer able to give consent? a doctor, law enforcement, a judge? and then for nursing homes, the poor nursing homes how are they supposed to monitor whats going on with the patients and their loved ones? theres a privacy aspect to this as well. >> what kind of doctors are qualified to determine...

>> i want to disagree with that gavin said. there are 100,000 women a year sexually assaulted. date rape means you dont say no. you dont say -- a woman gets to say no at the beginning, the middle -- >> he wasnt saying. that. he disagreed with the numbers. >> its 100,000 a year, college students. the reason is because alcohol is the number one date rape drug. alcohol is number one. >> how many women are in college every year? got to be in the millions, right? >> so its not one in four. >> okay. >...