TORONTO

A 27-year-old Toronto woman wept on the stand Tuesday as she described the night she says a longtime, trusted friend drugged and molested her in a bed her while masturbating beside her.

The woman testified at the trial of Nick Franchino that she became violently ill and then blacked out after Franchino, her platonic friend for more than a decade, poured her a glass of “Girls’ Night Out” wine on April 17, 2014, the night before Good Friday.

• Franchino, 29, has pleaded not guilty to all charges

• Woman testifies she was drugged on three occasions

• Crown says wine bottle contained date-rape drug

She wanted to play guitar to impress Franchino — who’s a good guitarist — but she was overcome with dizziness and rushed to the toilet, court heard. She said he offered to dress her for bed, but she declined.

When she awoke later in bed, Franchino was groping her while pleasuring himself, she told court.

“Nick, what are you doing?” she recalled asking him.

“He didn’t say anything. He just pulled his hand out and left,” testified the sobbing woman, whose identity is protected by a publication ban.

She said he exited the room five minutes later, emptying her wine glass before leaving.

“I know he poured out my glass because I had only taken a couple of sips from it,” said the emotionally-torn woman.

She told court she believes it was the third time Franchino had drugged her.

On two earlier occasions in 2014, one on Family Day in February and again on March 29, she testified, she began vomitting and felt woozy and incoherent after drinking “salty” tasting alcoholic beverages he served.

On the March night, she had shared a joint with Franchino, whom she said sold her pot previously. She said she wasn’t a “regular” pot smoker.

On the first occasion, on Feb. 17, 2014, the customer service rep had been packing in her Mississauga townhouse for a move to a Toronto condo the next day. She invited Franchino over to help her and enjoy some drinks.

Crown attorney Danielle Carbonneau said in her opening to the jury Tuesday that police found a “dangerous amount” of the date rape drug GHB inside the wine bottle it’s alleged Franchino brought to the woman’s house in April 2014.

Franchino is charged with three counts of administering a noxious substance, one count of administering a stupefying drug and sexual assault, all against the same woman, between Feb. 17, 2014 and April 17, 2014.

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