ELYRIA — Defense attorney Jack Bradley blasted the rape and other allegations leveled against Grafton roofer Thomas Kiley when the former $300-an-hour escort who has accused him of attacking her took the stand Tuesday.

The woman, a native of Kyrgyzstan, told jurors that she met Kiley as a client in October 2007 and their relationship developed enough that they became a couple, and he was even helping her win a child custody dispute with a Florida man.

But Bradley demanded to know why she testified in the custody case that she and Kiley met in February 2007 while he was on a roofing job at a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Florida and not while working as an escort. It was a story, she said, that Kiley told her to tell.

“Because it would look bad on me, obviously, in family court,” the woman said later when Assistant County Prosecutor Chris Pierre asked why she lied.

Bradley also asked what she did for $300 an hour as an escort.

“It’s not sexual favors,” she said. “It’s more spending time with the clients.”

She said the sex she had with those clients, including Kiley, was consensual, although she admitted she thought it was immoral.

“You went across state lines to engage in prostitution? Answer yes or no,” Bradley said to the woman.

“I guess,” she replied.

The woman said Kiley, 41, was extremely controlling of her during their months-long relationship and that things went too far in March.

The couple was preparing for a trip to Florida, and Kiley’s jealousy got the better of him, the woman said.

She said Kiley accused her of seeing other men, searched her bags, threw her cell phone into a nearby pond and forced her to delete her e-mail accounts.

He also became enraged when she couldn’t find her spare set of car keys and threatened to sodomize her if she didn’t produce the keys, she said.

The woman said Kiley threw her on the bed, tied her legs with an alarm clock cord or a lamp cord, according to what she told the Nord Center employee who conducted rape tests on her — and forced himself on her.

The woman said she managed to flee to a neighbor’s house after Kiley fell asleep.

Bradley asked why the woman hadn’t fled earlier in the day when the couple was at the airport and missed a flight to Florida because of bad weather. He pointed out that the woman also could have asked police officers at the airport for help.

Bradley also attacked the woman’s record with men, saying that of the three men whose children she’s had, she’d filed charges against all of them and tried to take their children to her native land.

“That’s your pattern, isn’t it?” Bradley asked. “You file charges until you get what you want.”

Her and Kiley’s child was born abroad, and Bradley pointed out that the woman was arrested for violating a custody order for trying to board a plane bound for Russia with the child, over whom she is now fighting the custody battle. Kiley and the woman have remained in contact, including discussions of reuniting, since shortly after he was arrested in March, Bradley said.

While questioned by Pierre about her relationships, the woman looked straight at Bradley and asked, “The bad choices in men, is that a felony?”

Bradley, who also accused her of trying to blackmail Kiley for between $50,000 and $100,000 in exchange for her not showing up at the trial and trying to have his client’s dog euthanized after his arrest, didn’t respond.

The trial resumes Thursday.

Contact Brad Dicken at 329-7147 or bdicken@chroniclet.com.

 

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