A woman who says she was gang-raped by three friends of a man she met on Tinder searched for porn showing group sex before and after the alleged attacks.
The woman has admitted to searching for “very sexually explicit material” in the six months leading up to the alleged rapes, but denies doing so “regularly.”
She also denies that during conversations with the man she met on Tinder she ever discussed the idea of multiple men having sex with one woman, or that she wanted to “try a gangbang.”
The woman was questioned on Monday after giving evidence last week during the trial of her three alleged rapists at Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court.
Also in question is the Tinder match she had sex with the night she was allegedly raped, who is accused of leading the three other 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 charges of aggravated sexual assault relating to events at the woman’s Belmore apartment in Sydney’s south-west on April 16, 2022.
The 26-year-old man did not have sex with the woman, but according to the Public Prosecution Service, he encouraged the other three men to repeatedly rape her as part of a joint criminal enterprise.
A woman who says she was raped by three friends of a man she met on Tinder had searched for group sex pornography before and after the alleged attacks. Adam Kabbout is accused of encouraging his friends to rape the woman
El-Sayed, Katlin and Ali, who had not met the 23-year-old woman before arriving at her flat, claim the sex they had with her was consensual.
The woman told the jury last week that in the months after they met on Tinder, she had communicated with Kabbout via Snapchat, but that their conversation had been limited to small talk.
On Monday, she admitted that she also sent him topless photos of herself, but she denied that she also sent him photos of herself with a dildo.
“No, because I don’t have one,” she told the jury.
Speaking to Kabbout on Snapchat earlier on the night she was allegedly raped, the then 24-year-old said of his friends: “They’re just three boys” and “That’s what they like.”
The woman had replied, “I don’t know.” [I don’t know] ‘Their regret HAHA’ and ‘tempting but maybe not’.
When the woman saw a list of her internet search history, she admitted that she had searched for group sex videos on her phone, but “not regularly,” and she insisted that she had never spoken to Kabbout about such acts before.
“We never had a conversation about sex with more than one person,” she said Monday.
Attorney April Francis, representing Kabbout, told the woman that she had told her client, “to put it in your own words, you wanted to get rammed” and “that you wanted to try a gangbang one day.”
She responded to both statements 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 told Kabbout about her fetishes and that he had never told her about his either.
“We never talked about fetishes,” she told the jury.
“I never told anyone. It’s personal. I never talked about my kinks and what I was interested in.”
Four days after the alleged rapes, the woman made her first statement to the police. On the same day, she did an internet search using the term ‘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,” she told the judges.
Judge Leonie Flannery warned the jury not to assume the woman had given consent to anything when she was raped simply because she had watched videos of group sex.
“This is not a morals court,” Judge Flannery added.
The night of the alleged rapes, Kabbout, El-Sayed, Katlan and another man were watching Souths win over the Bulldogs in a Good Friday NRL match at Olympic Park. Ali later joined them.
The now 25-year-old woman said that when Kabbout arrived at her home, they immediately went to her bedroom.
Omar El-Sayed, Rami Katlan (above) and Mohammed Ali – who had not met the 23-year-old woman before moving into her apartment – claim that all the 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 was with the group on the soccer field and is not accused of any wrongdoing.
“I went back to my room and closed the door,” she said. “Adam came in and I said, ‘Who are they? What are they doing here?’ and ‘I don’t want them here.'”
The woman said that Kabbout left her bedroom and that she 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 members, she told the jury.
“He was like, ‘Suck him off,’” she said.
“I went closer to them and said I didn’t want to do it, I didn’t want to do anything, but I was scared and he said just do it, so I did.”
The woman stated that after Kabbout left the room, she had sex with the man.
“I remember just saying I didn’t want to do 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 that a second man entered the room and raped her in the same manner as the first, and that he was then followed by a third.
The woman said she was in tears as she was allegedly raped by the second and third men and continued to protest what was being done to her.
The process continues.