A woman who says she was gang-raped by three friends of a man she met on Tinder searched for pornography showing group sex before and after the alleged assaults.
The woman admitted to having searched for “highly sexually explicit material” in the six months prior to the alleged rapes, but denied doing so “regularly.”
She also denied ever discussing the idea of multiple men having sex with one woman during conversations with the man she met on Tinder or wanting to “try a gang bang.”
The woman was questioned on Monday after giving her key testimony last week at the trial of her three alleged rapists in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court.
Also on trial is the man she had met on Tinder the night she was allegedly raped and is accused of bringing the other three men to her home.
Omar El-Sayed, 25, Rami Katlan, 26, and Mohammed Ali, 21, have pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual intercourse without consent and two counts of aggravated sexual assault in company.
Adam Kabbout has pleaded not guilty to six counts of aggravated sexual assault in connection with what happened at the woman’s apartment in Belmore, southwest of Sydney, on April 16, 2022.
The 26-year-old did not have sexual relations with the woman, but the Crown says he encouraged the three other men to repeatedly rape her as part of a joint criminal enterprise.
A woman who says she was gang raped by three friends of a man she met on Tinder had searched for pornography depicting group sex before and after the alleged assaults. Adam Kabbout is accused of encouraging his friends to rape the woman
El-Sayed, Katlin and Ali, none of whom had met the 23-year-old woman before going to her apartment, insist that any sex they had with her was consensual.
The woman told jurors last week that she had communicated with Kabbout via Snapchat in the months after they met on Tinder, but that their conversation had been limited to casual chit-chat.
On Monday, she admitted she had also sent him topless photos of herself, but denied forwarding him images of herself with a dildo.
“No, because I don’t have any,” he told the jury.
While speaking to Kabbout on Snapchat earlier the night she was allegedly raped, the then 24-year-old had said of his friends: “They’re just three guys” and “That’s what they like.”
The woman replied, “I don’t know, sorry LOL” and “tempting, but maybe not.”
When shown a list of her internet search history, the woman accepted she had looked up group sex videos on his phone but “not regularly” and insisted she had never discussed such acts with Kabbout before.
“We never had a conversation regarding sex with more than one person,” she said Monday.
Attorney April Francis, representing Kabbout, told the woman that she had told her client: “Use your expression: you wanted to get pounded” and “that one day you wanted to try a gang bang.”
She responded to both propositions in the same way: “I never said that.”
Omar El-Sayed, 25, Rami Katlan, 26, and Mohammed Ali, 21, have pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual intercourse without consent and two counts of aggravated sexual assault in company. Ali is pictured outside court on Monday
The woman said she had never revealed her fetishes to Kabbout and that he had never revealed his to her either.
“We never talked about fetishes,” he told the jury.
“I never told anyone. It’s something personal. I never talked about my hobbies or my interests.”
Four days after the alleged rapes, the woman made her first statement to police. That same day, she searched the internet using the phrase “run a train.”
The woman said her pornographic searches “after the incident” had nothing to do with a personal interest in group sex.
“I just wanted to see if the women in the videos cried like I cried,” he told the jury.
Judge Leonie Flannery warned the jury not to assume the woman had consented to anything when she was allegedly raped simply because she had watched group sex videos.
“This is not a court of morality,” Judge Flannery added.
On the night of the alleged rapes, Kabbout, El-Sayed, Katlan and another man had watched Souths beat the Bulldogs in a Good Friday NRL match at Olympic Park and Ali later joined them.
The woman, now 25, said that when Kabbout arrived at her home, they both went straight to her bedroom.
Omar El-Sayed, Rami Katlan (above) and Mohammed Ali, none of whom had met the 23-year-old woman before going to her apartment, insist that any sex they had with her was consensual.
After showering, the woman said she found Kabbout and four other men outside her bedroom. The fifth man had been playing soccer with the group and is not charged with any crime.
“I went back to my room and locked the door,” she said. “Adam came in and I asked him, ‘Who are you? What are you doing here?’ and ‘I don’t want you here.'”
The woman said Kabbout left her room and heard the men outside having a conversation in a language she did not understand.
Kabbout then returned to the bedroom with one of the group, he told the jury.
“He tells me something like, ‘Suck it,'” she said.
“I approached them and told them I didn’t want to and that I didn’t want to do anything, but I was scared and he told me to do it and so I did.”
The woman said that after Kabbout left the room, she had sex with the man.
“I just remember I kept saying I didn’t want this, I didn’t want to do this,” she said.
The woman said that when she told Kabbout she wanted the men to leave, he replied: “Not yet.”
She told the jury a second man entered the room and raped her in a similar way to the first and was then followed by a third.
The woman said she was crying while she was allegedly raped by the second and third men and continued to protest what they were doing to her.
The trial continues.
