LEBANON — A Mason woman who claimed she was sexually assaulted by a man who wrote the word “sex” down her spine in 8-inch letters is on trial for allegedly filing false police reports and manufacturing evidence in the case.

        Nicole Gilmore, 28, of the 5300 block of Lofton Court, is charged with 15 felony counts of tampering with evidence and two misdemeanor charges of falsification. Each felony charge carries a sentence of one to five years in prison.

        Ms. Gilmore earlier had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Her attorney, Kenneth Lawson, recently withdrew that plea because he said Ms. Gilmore maintains her innocence and insists that the assaults occurred.

        Mr. Lawson says that frustrated police discounted Ms. Gilmore's story of the attacks and instead turned on her because they were unable to identify a suspect.

        Ms. Gilmore reported that two men and a woman kidnapped her Sept. 18 from the parking lot of her workplace, Portion Pac Inc. on Snider Road.

        They took her to an undisclosed location, where one of the men cut off her clothes with a knife, assaulted her in the back of the blue Astro van, slashed her breasts and wrote on her back, Ms. Gilmore said.

        In taped statements played in court Monday, Ms. Gilmore's voice was barely audible as she told police that she ran home after the three ordered her out of the van. She said she changed clothes, went to bed, then reported the attack about an hour later to the woman with whom she resided. The woman called police.

        In testimony Monday, officers confirmed that Ms. Gilmore showed them the writing, in what appeared to be black marker, on her back when they arrived at her home to interview her.

        Nearly two months later, Ms. Gilmore reported another abduction — this time from her driveway. She told police she was placed in the trunk of her car Nov. 9 and taken to another location on Snider Road, where her attackers forced her to smoke cigarettes and drink beer, and then poured beer on her.

        A convenience store clerk later told police that Ms. Gilmore was in the store that night buying cigarettes and beer.

        According to court documents, lab tests determined that stains on Ms. Gilmore's clothing, which she claimed were left by her attackers, actually were theatrical blood.

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