Opening statements begin in Canyon Lake woman’s sex-abuse civil suit vs. Bill Cosby

RIVERSIDE (CNS) - Calling Bill Cosby a "planner'' who targeted young girls, an attorney for a now-64-year-old Riverside County woman told a Santa Monica jury today the comedian befriended his then-teenage client and her friend in the 1970s, and eventually put his hands down her pants and forced her to fondle him while at the Playboy Mansion.An attorney for Cosby, however, said a late change in the woman's story about the timeline of events suggested the allegation is a "fabrication,'' and the actions of the then-teenagers after the alleged assault were "inconsistent'' with a crime being committed.Beginning the trial of the first sex-abuse lawsuit against Cosby to go before a jury, attorney Nathan Goldberg told the panel his client, Judy Huth, of Canyon Lake, met the comedi
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