BY GAYLA CAWLEY
SALEM — Sydnee Enos was watching TV with her parents when she received explicit Snapchat videos that showed her former best friend allegedly being sexually assaulted.
Enos, of Saugus, said she was on the couch when the first video, sent by Timothy Cyckowski, 19, appeared on her phone. It showed the victim alone, naked and stumbling around in the woods.
“She was trying to walk and couldn’t really speak,” said Enos, 18. “She wasn’t wearing anything at all … it was almost as if she was intoxicated. She was stumbling.”
After seeing the video, Enos said she went to her mother because something was wrong. Then, another video came in, also from 19-year-old Cyckowski of Saugus.
The trial of two Saugus residents accused of sexually assaulting an intoxicated 16-year-old girl while the incident was shared on the mobile messaging app continued Wednesday.
Rashad Deihim, 21, and Kailyn Bonia, 20, have pleaded not guilty. They claim the sex was consensual and are standing trial in Essex Superior Court in Salem. Prosecutors argue the victim did not consent and was incapable of doing so because of her intoxication.
The Item does not name victims of sexual assault.
Deihim and Bonia were indicted in 2014 for two counts of assault to rape, four counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, kidnapping and posing a child in the nude.
Enos said the second video depicted the victim lying on top of Bonia on a couch in the woods. She testified that Bonia held the victim’s neck down, “almost in a headlock,” while “kissing her neck” and touching her genitals.
While Bonia was also touching the victim’s breasts and kissing her neck, Enos said she heard “no” from the victim in the video.
In the third video, also from Cyckowski, Enos said she saw Deihim, with his pants unbuttoned, and exposed. He was standing up, she said, and the victim was on her knees in front of him. She testified that Bonia was pushing the victim’s head against Deihim’s exposed genital area.
“She was putting her hands out trying to say stop or no,” Enos said.
Enos said she was able to take a screenshot of the videos. She also texted and called Cyckowski, because “what he was doing was completely wrong,” a statement that the defense objected to. Judge Kathe Tuttman ordered the jury to not consider. As she talked to him, her father called the police.
During cross-examination of Enos, Bonia’s defense attorney, James Caramanica, tried to establish that the victim could have been saying no to being videotaped. During his questioning, Enos also admitted that she did not know how long the victim and defendants had been in the woods, and what they were doing before receiving the first video.
Deihim’s defense attorney, Stephen Neyman, established that Enos did not know the victim and the two defendants well when the video was recorded. Earlier this year, Cyckowski pleaded guilty in Lynn Juvenile Court. He admitted to sharing a video he had taken of the girl being sexually assaulted on Snapchat. The alleged attack took place behind Waybright Elementary School in Saugus.
He was ordered to be held at the Department of Youth Services until age 20. He will then be placed on probation for four years. He must also receive substance abuse treatment and have no contact with the victim or witnesses.
His father, Matthew Cyckowski, 39, pleaded guilty to misleading a police investigation, by destroying his son’s phone. He was sentenced to two years probation.
Barbara Madden, the nurse who performed the sexual assault examination on the victim the day after the alleged attack at Boston Children’s Hospital, also testified.
Madden said she saw scrapes, bruises and abrasions on the victim’s neck, shoulders, legs, arms, above her right breast and on her buttocks.
“She said it was uncomfortable,” Madden said. “The most pain she complained about was her toe. She thought it was broken.”
When police found the girl on the night of the incident, she was given the life-saving overdose drug Narcan, according to Assistant District Attorney Kate MacDougall.
When cross-examined, Madden said the victim told her she was out drinking and smoking marijuana the night of the alleged assault with five acquaintances.
The victim is expected to testify today. The prosecution has obtained the video from Snapchat, but it’s unclear whether it will be admissible in court.
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