STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Contrary to his prior denials in recorded phone conversations, Naflan Doole testified on Tuesday that he did, in fact, have a sexual encounter with a woman who alleges he tried to rape her three years ago in a Willowbrook parking lot.
But the woman initiated the episode, and he never took advantage of her, the former political operative testified.
“One thing led to another and we started making out,” Doole testified. “… She said that she really wanted to do it right then and there. … She said, ‘Let’s f---.’”
When a prosecutor asked if the woman was “begging” him for sex, the New Springville resident, responded, “Yes.”
“She talked about how unpleasured she was by (her boyfriend),” said Doole.
She told him, “He’s not a man,” the defendant said.
Doole’s testimony stood in stark contrast to the alleged victim’s version of the events.
On Monday, the woman told jurors he had sodomized and attempted to rape her in his car while she was feeling ill after they had consumed vodka.
The woman testified that she told Doole “multiple times” to stop, but he did not.
The incident occurred on July 25, 2018, in a parking lot at the College of Staten Island.
In cross-examination, Assistant District Attorney Amir Fadl sought to undermine Doole’s credibility. He made the defendant recount his actions moment by moment that day.
Much of it did not jibe with the alleged victim’s account.
At one point, Doole, 25, paused and smiled uncomfortably when Fadl asked him to describe a particular facet of the sexual encounter.
“My mother’s in the room,” said the defendant. “Sorry, Mom.”
Doole testified for about four hours. More than half of it was on cross-examination, which will conclude Wednesday in state Supreme Court, St. George.
Prosecutors rested their case at the start of the day. The defendant is charged with criminal sexual act (formerly classified as sodomy), attempted rape and other crimes.
Doole was garbed in a dark suit, white shirt and striped tie. His beard was neatly trimmed.
As have the other witnesses, Doole wore a plastic face shield but no mask.
He often sat with his hands folded on the witness stand. He answered his lawyer Mario Romano’s questions in a calm, direct manner.
However, he had to be prodded a few times on cross-examination to speak up.
On a number of occasions, he asked Fadl, who is prosecuting the case along with Assistant District Attorney Lisa Davis, to repeat his question before answering.
At the time of the alleged attack, Doole was an assistant campaign manager for Charles Fall, a Democrat running for the North Shore Assembly seat. Fall won the election that November.
The alleged victim, then 19, was a volunteer for Fall’s campaign.
Fall ultimately fired Doole after learning of the allegations.
The defendant testified that he arranged to meet the woman outside the St. George Ferry Terminal on the date in question.
They had planned to get lunch, and then Doole was going to a party that night.
As they were driving, the defendant testified that the woman found four “airplane-size” bottles of Ciroc vodka in his glove compartment. He said he was going to drink the booze with a friend before going to the party.
However, he and the woman stopped at a park in West Brighton where each consumed two bottles, he said.
The woman had testified she was dizzy and nauseous afterward and wound up vomiting into a plastic bag.
Doole denied she had done so. Nothing was wrong with her, he said.
“She looked good,” said the defendant.
After they drove around for a few hours, the woman said she wanted to freshen up before meeting her boyfriend, said Doole.
He drove to the College of Staten Island.
The two of them were CUNY (City University of New York) students. Although neither attended CSI, Doole said they would be able to tidy themselves up in the athletic center.
The defendant said he parked in a lot near a tennis bubble, a few hundred feet from the athletic center building.
It was around 5 p.m. Doole could not recall if it was light out. He said other cars were parked in the lot and a security vehicle was in front of the athletic center.
While they were sitting in the lot, the woman came onto him, Doole said.
She gave him an “intense look” and “jumped” from the front seat into the back, said the defendant. She asked him to join her, he said. He did so.
“She starts telling me how amazing I am. And it made me feel good,” the defendant said.
The woman then kissed him “intensely” and stroked his leg, he said.
He kissed her back and fondled her breast, said Doole.
Things quickly heated up, and the woman said she wanted to have sex, the defendant said.
She started to pleasure him, and they both removed their pants, said Doole. She commented favorably on what she saw, he said.
But they never had intercourse despite his agreeing to do so, the defendant insisted. “I started feeling guilty. I started having second thoughts,” said Doole.
Several times as Doole related the sequence of events, Fadl, the prosecutor, asked the defendant if he had been thinking about his wife, to whom he was married at the time, or about the woman’s boyfriend, who was his good friend.
He said no.
After they had stopped, the woman became angry, said Doole.
“She got mad,” said Doole. “That sweet person I had been talking with turned vicious.”
Romano, the defense lawyer, asked Doole if he had done anything to the victim against her wishes.
“No,” replied the defendant.
Did she ever communicate to him that she “did not want the two of you to have the encounter you had in the back of the car?” asked Romano.
“No,” Doole said again.
To cover themselves, Doole said he and the woman agreed to tell everyone a story she had concocted.
She would say she drank four bottles of vodka, got sick, and passed out in the back of Doole’s car.
The defendant said he stuck to that story, when, later that night, the woman phoned and texted him, angrily alleging he had sexually assaulted her.
“The only thing on my mind was my wife,” he said. “I did not want this to get back to her. I just kept saying the same story. I stuck to what she was going to say.”
The woman testified that she was examined at Bellevue Hospital hours after the incident. A rape kit later showed a positive match to Doole’s DNA, according to testimony.
Also testifying Tuesday for the defense was Dr. Rachael Connington, a forensic and anatomic pathologist.
Dr. Connington said she had reviewed the victim’s medical records, and they contained no mention of any injuries.
Given a hypothetical situation similar to the victim’s account of the incident, the doctor said one would expect she would have suffered abrasions and bruising on several parts of her body.
However, under cross-examination by Fadl, the prosecutor, Dr. Connington confirmed the absence of injury does not necessarily mean a consensual act occurred.
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