Souverain said that while he was locked up after the raid, Rodriguez told him what Tolstoy had allegedly done to her.
"I went off," Souverain said. "I was in jail and there was nothing I could do but punch the walls. All I could think of was that he could go back and do something more.
"Anytime she sees a cop or hears a siren, she gets nervous," he said. "When the kids get close to her chest, she doesn't like it. She doesn't want to be touched by me.
"She's just not the same."
Neither is Lady Gonzalez.
Gonzalez was at home with her five young children on Dec. 14, 2007, when Tolstoy, Cujdik and seven other narcotics cops stormed her Kensington house.
The raid was prompted by a drug buy at the house three days earlier, according to a search-warrant application. The document said that a police informant had bought a packet of cocaine from Gonzalez's husband, Albert Nunez, on the front porch, while Officer Robert McDonnell watched.
But the informant, Ventura Martinez, told the Daily News that the search warrant was based on a lie: He never bought drugs from Nunez. Nor was he with McDonnell that day, Martinez said.
McDonnell is one of the four officers, including Cujdik and Cujdik's brother Richard, who have been placed on desk duty as a result of the joint FBI and Internal Affairs probe.
During the raid, one cop took Gonzalez's kids, crying and screaming, to a neighbor's house.
Gonzalez said she heard cops stomping around upstairs when another officer, who identified himself to her as "Tom," led her into a small room off the kitchen.
"He tells me to get my back against the wall. He asks me if I had any tattoos," she said.
She showed him the small ladybug on her wrist. He asked her if she had one on her lower back, she said.
She told him that she did. He asked to see it, she said.
"I then lifted up my shirt a little bit so he could see the tattoo of the Puerto Rican flag," she said.
He then pushed her jeans down to reveal "the crack of my ass," she said. " 'Mmmm, a Puerto Rican,' " he said, according to Gonzalez.
He spun her around, unzipped her blue jacket and lifted up her shirt and bra, she said.
"He totally just touched my breasts," she said. "I was scared. I was in a panic. I didn't know what to do. I thought he was going to rape me."
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