Alleged Rape Victim Testifies

She hadn’t known them long but didn’t think twice about partying alone with them or swallowing a foul-tasting drink they gave her. Still, she said, she never thought they would hurt her.

“These guys were supposed to be my friends,” she said. “I trusted them.”

Now 18, the young woman at the center of a high-profile rape case involving the son of a top Orange County sheriff’s official testified Tuesday that after gulping the mixed drink on the night in question two years ago, she felt woozy and remembers little after that.

That’s when, prosecutors say, three teenage boys raped the 16-year-old girl and sexually assaulted her with objects including a lighted cigarette, a Snapple bottle and a pool cue, all on videotape.

Gregory Scott Haidl, now 18, Keith James Spann, 19, and Kyle Joseph Nachreiner, 19, each face 55 years in prison if convicted in the incident July 6, 2002.

The woman, who is being called Jane Doe in court to protect her privacy, had been attending a neighboring high school in San Bernardino County and met the boys through mutual friends. With school out, she and her friends often went to parties, drinking and smoking pot wherever they could find houses with no parents home.

She acknowledged having sex with Spann the third time she saw him, in the mother’s bedroom of one of her friends.

According to her testimony, delivered in a matter-of-fact tone, she engaged in a night of drinking, drugs and sex at the home of Don Haidl, Gregory’s wealthy father and an Orange County assistant sheriff.

The next night, she said, she went to the elder Haidl’s house, where the three boys were. She drank a can of beer and took one puff of marijuana, then asked for a mixed drink, she said. It took Nachreiner “at least 15 minutes” before he came out with a white Styrofoam cup filled with a blue-green liquid, she testified.

“ ‘Here, take this,’ ” she said he told her. “ ‘It’ll knock you out.’ ” The drink smelled strong, “Pine Sol-ish,” she said. She said she asked what was in it, and he told her not to worry about it.

But she drained the cup, asking for a chaser because it tasted so bad. She said she recalled getting up to go look at Haidl’s truck, then started feeling dizzy as she walked down the driveway.

“My head started spinning,” she said. “It felt like I was incredibly drunk, like I was sick to my stomach. I’ve never felt that way before.”

She said she went back to sit on the couch and remembers little after that. “I was dozing, unconscious, in and out,” she said. “It just wasn’t right.” At one point, she said, she threw up, and she woke up briefly the next morning when Spann told her they had to go home.