WITH COSBY A FREE MAN, THEY SAY
THE SUPPORT AND WORK THEY CAN DO
TOGETHER IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN
EVER.
WHEN THEY HEARD BILL COSBY WOULD
WALK FREE THERE WAS ANGER AND
MORE.
>> SICKENED.
>> DISGUSTED.
>> VICTORIA, WHO ARE YOU MOST
ANGRY AT.
>> IM ANGRY AT THE LEGAL
SYSTEM.
WE PUT OUR NECKS ON THE LINE,
AND THEN THE LEGAL SYSTEM YANKED
THE RUG OUT FROM UNDER US.
>> FEELING FRUSTRATED AND UPSET,
BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE A BULLY HAS
BEEN LET GO.
>> IM CONCERNED FOR THE VICTIMS
OF SEXUAL ASSAULT THAT THEY WILL
HAVE THAT ATTITUDE OF, WHY
BOTHER?
WHY BOTHER TELLING MY STORY?
>> I WAS DRUGGED AND RAPED.
>> Reporter: SIX YEARS AGO ALL
BUT ONE OF THESE WOMEN JOINED A
GROUP OF MORE THAN 20 TO SHARE
THEIR STORIES ABOUT BILL COSBY.
>> HOW MANY BELIEVE YOU WERE
DRUGGED BY BILL COSBY?
HOW MANY OF YOU BELIEVE BILL
COSBY RAPED YOU?
>> Reporter: THEIR ACCUSATIONS
RANGING FROM HARASSMENT TO
GROPING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT AND
RAPE.
MANY OF THE STORIES STRIKINGLY
SIMILAR.
BILL COSBY AND HIS LAWYERS DENY
ANY OF IT EVER HAPPENED.
>> COME ON THE AIR WITH BREAKING
NEWS.
BILL COSBY HAS BEEN RELEASED
FROM PRISON --
>> Reporter: NOW THE
PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT
DECISION OVERTURNING COSBYS
2018 INDECENT ASSAULT CONVICTION
BRINGS THE WOMEN BACK TOGETHER.
>> THERES A FIRE INSIDE OF ME
THAT IS JUST MADE ME WANT TO GO
OUT AND MAKE CHANGE EVEN MORE
THAN I DID IN 2015.
>> HE WAS NOT PROCLAIMED
INNOCENT.
I THINK US IN OUR SISTERHOOD
NEED TO HOLD ON TO THAT.
>> THE POINT THE SUPREME COURT
MADE OVER AND OVER WAS THAT THIS
IS A DUE PROCESS ISSUE.
THAT BILL COSBY WAS ESSENTIALLY
PROMISED BY A PROSECUTOR HE
WOULD NEVER BE PROSECUTED AND
THEN HE WAS.
THAT VIOLATED HIS RIGHTS.
>> AND WHAT DOES THE EVIDENCE --
WHAT DOES THE EVIDENCE OF "A
PROMISE" SHOW THE PROOF?
>> BILL COSBYS REPRESENTATIVE
CALLED THE COURTS DECISION A
VICTORY FOR BLACK AMERICA.
>> AH!
[ LAUGHTER ]
>> THIS IS NOT ABOUT RACE.
ITS ABOUT RAPE.
THE ONLY PLACE THAT RACE PLAYS
INTO THIS IS THE FACT THAT BILL
COSBY WAS DISPROPORTIONATELY
TARGETING BLACK WOMEN.
>> Reporter: TWO OF THESE WOMEN
TESTIFIED IN SUPPORT OF ANDREA
CONSTAND.
>> DO YOU REGRET THAT?
>> ABSOLUTELY NOT.
I WOULD GO BACK AND DO IT AGAIN.
THIS MAN HAS SPENT TWO YEARS AND
NINE MONTHS IN JAIL.
THIS MAN HAS LOST HIS ENTIRE
REPUTATION.
HES LOST EVERY BIT OF
CREDIBILITY TO HES EVER HAD.
>> ITS WORTH THE PUBLIC KNOWING
THE MAGNITUDE OF CHARACTER
ASSASSINATION OF BLAMING AND
SHAMING, OF SILENCING, AND YET
WEVE STILL FOUND THE STRENGTH
TO TRANSFORM OUR TRAGEDY INTO
POLITICAL POWER.
>> Reporter: SINCE SPEAKING OUT,
MANY OF COSBYS ACCUSERS FOUGHT
TO CHANGE THE STATUTE OF
LIMITATIONS ON SEX WALTUAL ASSAU
AND SUCCEEDED IN SEVERAL STATES.
>> MAY BE THE KICK-START WE NEED
FOR MORE STATES TO GET INVOLVED.
>> Reporter: THEIR SURVIVOR,
SISTERHOOD, SWEETEST THING TO
COME OUT OF THEIR TRAUMA.
>> I AM READY AND RARING TO GO,
AND WILL DO ANYTHING AND SPEAK
MY TRUTH TO ANYONE THAT NEEDS
IT.
>> IM VERY, VERY PROUD TO KNOW
ALL OF THESE WOMEN.
>> WE HAVE OPENED THE FLOODGATES
FOR SO MANY PEOPLE WHO HAD
PREVIOUSLY NEVER FELT SAFE IN
SPEAKING OUT.
PREDATORS ARE BEING PUT ON
NOTICE.
>> BARBARA BOWMAN TOLD ME SHE
WOULD TELL ANYONE OUT THERE
STILL CARRYING A STORY TO FIND
SOMEONE WHO WILL LISTEN.
SOME AT A VIGIL THIS SATURDAY
EVENING IN PHILADELPHIA AND ALSO
AN EVENT IN CHICAGO.
CRAIG?
>> SO, KATE, I MEAN, COSBY, OUT
OF PRISON NOW.
DOES HE FACE OTHER LEGAL ISSUES
AT ALL?
>> YEAH.
HE DOES, ACTUALLY, CRAIG.
THERES A CIVIL SUIT AGAINST
COSBY IN LOS ANGELES MOVING
FORWARD RIGHT NOW.
AN ATTORNEY FOR THAT ACCUSER,
GLORIA ALLRED, SAID WEDNESDAY
THEYLL ASK THE COURT TO ALLOW A
SECOND DEP SPIGS OFOSITION OF BI