During that time, Internal Affairs received no new complaints from women about Tolstoy, DiLacqua said.
Naomi, Lady Gonzalez and Dagma Rodriguez say they are sure that Tolstoy is the officer who groped or sexually assaulted them.
All three women immediately identified Tolstoy after watching a video of a grocery-store raid that included six officers. The women viewed the video separately and without suggestive prompting by reporters.
In the video, first posted on the Daily News Web site, at philly.com, on March 30, Tolstoy is among six officers seen and heard in a September 2007 raid of a West Oak Lane grocery store.
"I'm positive. I know that's the guy who did that to me," Naomi said, while watching the video.
Just seeing his face churned up renewed anger and shame, she said.
She has been in therapy the past five months. Her mom pays for the twice-weekly sessions.
Naomi said she's trying to work through "what triggered in my mind that night."
"You could call it rape, but it wasn't rape. But it did something to my personality.
"It just affected everything." *
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