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The evening kicked off with a “rookie buy party” bar hop downtown, with the crowd shrinking as the night wore on. The woman ended up as the only female with Nyznik, Kara and Cabero and two other officers at the Brass Rail strip club.

By her account, she went to the party because she “needed a night out” and saw it as a good exercise in “team-building and networking.”

She alleges she was drugged, and reluctantly hinted that it may have been Nyznik who spiked her last drink, and said that in the cab on the way to the hotel she grew very ill very quickly.

And then, she says, Nyznik forced oral sex on her while Cabero forced intercourse on her, while Kara slept, drunk and sick, beside her. When he woke up, she says, he also forced intercourse on her.

But there are huge gaps in her memory, and what she recalled are mostly “sensations” (for instance, “the sensation of being penetrated vaginally”) and sounds as the three men allegedly talked about or over her.

And she was rendered incapacitated, she said — she claimed a loss of consciousness and said she “couldn’t move her body”— by the drug she believes she was somehow given.

But by Nyznik’s version, as laid out by Black over much of the week, it was the woman who was the sexual aggressor throughout the night, first making overt sexual suggestions to Nyznik in particular at one of the bars, and then, in the room, by unzipping the men or inviting one or another to join in.

Black revealed Friday, in a bit of a bombshell revelation, that while she waited for a sexual assault nurse at Scarborough Grace Hospital, she researched date rape drugs on her cell phone.