A woman who searched for explicit-group sex material online before and after allegedly being raped by three men says she did so to see if the women in the videos were crying like she did.
One of the searches was on the day she reported the incident to police, a jury was told in Sydney's Downing Centre District Court on Monday.
The woman maintains she never consented to having sex with the men and says she repeatedly asked to stop as one by one they entered the bedroom of her apartment at Belmore, in southwest Sydney, in April 2022 and raped her.
When grilled about whether the searches were evidence of her sexual interests the woman replied, "I just wanted to see if the women in the videos were crying the way that I was crying".
Judge Leonie Flannery told the jury the woman's searches should not be taken to mean she consented to the sexual activity that is the subject of the trial.
“This is not a court of morals,” she said.
The woman agreed to meet Adam Ahamd Kabbout, 27, for what she assumed would be sex after matching with him on the dating app Tinder about a year earlier, she told the court.
After letting Kabbout into her home, the woman says she went to have a shower and emerged to find several other men she did not know also in her home before they raped her.
Omar El-Sayed, 26, Rami Katlan, 26 and Mohammed Ali, 22, have pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual intercourse without consent and two counts of aggravated sexual assault in company.
Lawyers for the men have said it was not in dispute that El-Sayed, Katlan and Ali all had sex with the woman, but they claim she consented to the acts.
As the crimes' alleged facilitator, Kabbout has pleaded not guilty to six counts of aggravated sexual assault in company.
Under cross-examination by Kabbout's barrister, April Francis, the woman said she had never expressed an interest in group sex with Kabbout prior to meeting him.
"I never talked about my kinks and what I was interested in,” the woman said.
Documents were tendered to the court detailing searches made by the woman for what she described as "group-sex material”.
"These searches disclosed very sexually explicit material," Ms Francis said.
She submitted the woman sent Kabbout messages suggesting that she wanted to be “ran through” and that one day she wanted to try a “gang bang”.
"I never said that,” the woman replied.
Asked what the nature of any previous conversations of a sexual nature she had with Kabbout were, the woman replied, "Between he and I ... just two people.”
The woman maintained she never said anything to the other men besides insisting she did not want to have sex.
“I just said, ‘I don’t want to do anything’,” the woman said.
“That was all the conversation that was had between us.
“Something similar to ‘no’; I never said ‘yes'."
The trial continues.
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