Two more Cosby accusers come forward

Crusading women's-rights attorney Gloria Allred on Friday introduced two more women who say Bill Cosby sexually assaulted them.

And Allred promised there would be more women going public with similar stories.

Allred already represents a half-dozen of more than 30 women who have come forward recently to accuse Cosby of drugging and raping them in episodes dating back decades.

On Friday, she held another press conference in her Los Angeles office to introduce her latest Cosby-accuser clients, Sunni Welles and Margie Shapiro.

She chose Friday because Cosby was scheduled to perform in Baltimore tonight, and in Charleston, W.Va., Saturday night.

"I have been asked how many more victims there are," Allred said. "Only Mr. Cosby knows the answer to that question but I can assure him that I have more who have not yet come forward, but who will speak out in the future."

Welles and Shapiro told stories similar to those told by other Cosby accusers, except they were teenagers when they say they encountered him. And, like the other accusers, the statute of limitations has run out in their cases.

Welles said she was 17 and an aspiring singer in the mid-1960s when she met Cosby through her agent/manager mother who was a longtime friend of his. She trusted Cosby but believes Cosby raped her during two different dates, after first drugging her soda.

"But I did not want to believe that a family friend would do that to me," Welles said.

After the second time, she and her mother never spoke to Cosby again and she buried the memories until last fall, when multiple women began coming forward with similar stories.

"I no longer think Bill Cosby is a nice man," Welles said. "I believe that BIll Cosby is a sexual predator and a disgusting human being to not acknowledge what he has done to so many girls and women in his life."

Shapiro said she was 19 in 1975 when she met Cosby when he came into the donut shop where she was working nearby to a film he was shooting in Santa Monica.

She says he took her to a guest house at the Playboy Mansion estate and persuaded her to take an unknown pill during a pinball game. She passed out but regained consciousness to find Cosby raping her.

She told her roommate, brother and several close friends what happened but not the police. "I was confused and at a loss because I could not believe that anyone would believe me over Bill Cosby," she said.

Cosby's legal team has not responded to these latest allegations, but he has denied all wrongdoing and has not been charged with a crime. He has spoken to fans through videos in which he says, "I'm far from finished."

Allred repeated that she's far from finished with Cosby. Some of her clients have already sued him in civil court, one of several lawsuits he has faced from accusers.

"It is long overdue for Bill Cosby to take legal, moral and public responsibility for what he has done and answer each and every allegation that has been made against him without making a joke about it," Allred said. .