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Bill Cosby’s sex assault trial set to begin on Monday

By Reuters
04 June 2017   |   4:00 pm
With a jury picked, the long-awaited sexual assault trial of Bill Cosby, once known as America’s favorite TV dad, is set to begin in Norristown, Pennsylvania.

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