Timeline
A chronological view of key events, supported by evidence.
Mouna and Tasha date briefly. Tasha later claims death threats occurred during this period, but this is contradicted by affectionate text messages from the same time. Read more
Tasha texts Mouna “I’m excited to see you tomorrow,” shortly after the period she later claims Mouna threatened to kill her. [texts]
First sexual encounter between Mouna and Tasha, after approximately eight months of dating. Tasha testified she was the one who booked the hotel room. Read more
Tasha claims she moved to Soulard and broke her lease out of fear of Mouna. She later returns repeatedly to Mouna’s neighborhood. [OP transcript, p.10] [deposition, p.51]
During a thoughtful text conversation about consent and coercion, Adriane writes: “I don’t think the sex that you and I have is rape” and “Our sex is good stuff.” She contrasts her experience with Mouna against prior partners she considered to have raped her. [texts]
Email from Facebook confirms Mouna as host of the upcoming June 12 FoodSpark dinner at their home. [email]
Adriane blames Mouna for preventing her from dating someone named Connor, even though Mouna had actually encouraged the relationship. Mouna apologizes anyway. [texts]
Adriane accuses a man named Chris of “he came in me without asking me,” using identical language she later applies to Mouna. The same accusation template is applied to two different people within two months. [texts]
FoodSpark dinner hosted at Mouna’s home (Radix House, 3406 Halliday Ave). The event is publicly listed on the household’s Facebook page, which Tasha later researches. [email]
Double bind: Adriane asks not to have penetrative sex. Mouna is fine with that. But Adriane then becomes angry when Mouna respects her own stated boundary. [texts]
Adriane distributes a nude video of Mouna without consent. Mouna is in Seattle (~2,500 miles away) attending a wedding; Adriane is in Orlando. At deposition, Adriane admits she did not ask before sending it. At trial, she changes her story and claims Mouna consented and was “next to” her, which the text messages prove was physically impossible. [texts] Read more
Tasha attends FoodSpark at Nebula Coworking, 28 days after the event at Mouna’s home. She testified she researched prior FoodSpark events before attending, which would have led directly to Mouna’s household Facebook page. She claims to have had a panic attack upon seeing Mouna, framing herself as the victim of an encounter she engineered. [OP transcript, p.10] [deposition, p.48]
Pregnancy crisis. Adriane believes she is pregnant and has been texting since 4:50 AM about symptoms and clinic logistics. At approximately 7:58 AM, she demands an apology for a sexual act. Mouna apologizes to de-escalate. This apology is later weaponized against Mouna, though the trial judge recognized it as de-escalation. [texts] Read more
Mouna goes on a date with Alyssa Banford at Mokabe’s, the closest coffee shop to their home. Tasha learns of this, giving her additional reason to associate Mouna with the location. [texts]
The STI incident escalates. After Adriane invites an ex over and describes a non-consensual sexual encounter with him, Mouna mentions STI risk. Adriane responds by accusing Mouna of cheating (without evidence), demands a video list of every person Mouna spends time with (~30 people), and then bans Mouna from seeing any of them. Adriane later admits they were not even exclusive at the time. [texts] [emails]
Tasha sees Mouna at Mokabe’s, over a year after she claims to have fled the neighborhood in fear. She was returning to Mouna’s neighborhood, not the other way around. [OP transcript, p.12]
Tasha sees Mouna at a restaurant. She omits the specific location from her testimony. [OP transcript, p.12]
Adriane engages in sexual contact without Mouna’s permission (sits on Mouna’s face without first getting consent). [texts]
Adriane brings up sex three times in under 24 hours. Mouna had simply been busy. [texts]
Adriane texts Mouna: “you have ruined me for dating other people. The bar is a lot higher and people can’t reach it.” This is two weeks before the breakup and recharacterization of the relationship as abusive. [texts]
Less than 24 hours after the breakup, Adriane sends a long stream of messages declaring she has “figured out” that Mouna was abusive throughout the relationship. She later identifies this pattern herself: rejection triggers the “realization” of abuse across multiple relationships. [texts]
Adriane tells Mouna “don’t ever talk to me again” and calls them “just another abuser.” Hours later, she asks for a hug, asks Mouna to come over, and shares a sexual dream. Mouna declines and offers the names of friends and support resources. Mouna also offers mediation with a trained third party. In the same exchange, Adriane describes her own pattern: “in previous abusive relationships, it took the guy rejecting me in some way to cause me enough pain to realize I needed to get out.” She names a former partner, Joey, whom she accused of raping her, and describes the same sequence: deep attachment, rejection, then recharacterization as rape. [texts]
Adriane formally declines mediation with a third party, but remains open to one-on-one meetings with Mouna. [texts]
Mouna asks Adriane to coordinate with someone else to retrieve her belongings and return her key. Adriane refuses, texts “Lol, I can just get it myself. I wasn’t planning to coordinate with you,” and enters Mouna’s home uninvited using the unreturned key. She later admits in deposition she had no legitimate reason for keeping the key. [texts] [deposition, pp.39-40]
Adriane sends Mouna a series of one-directional death threats: “I wish you would die,” “If you were to come here and hand me a gun it would be extremely hard for me to not go ahead and shoot you in the head,” and “I believe you deserve to die.” Mouna does not respond. Adriane confirms the shooting threat under oath at trial. [texts] Read more
Adriane texts a beheading threat: “If I were to cut off your head and drag it into the streets for everyone to see, I would be justified in it.” She also leaves voicemails declaring her intent to “take down” and destroy Mouna. Later that day, she accuses Mouna of rape for the first time, embedded in the same stream of death threats, approximately three and a half weeks after the breakup. [texts] [voicemails]
Tasha sees Mouna at a Cinco de Mayo parade attended by thousands. She is not even sure Mouna saw her. She later lists this on her petition as evidence of stalking. [OP transcript, p.34]
Tasha appears at Gelateria, where Mouna’s housemate Allison Smith works. Mouna is already inside when Tasha walks in. Despite this, Tasha lists the encounter on her petition as evidence of Mouna stalking her. [OP transcript, p.16]
Tasha pledges to nonbinary person Niles Zee: “I want to assure you I am dedicated to using they pronouns for Nick and have been since I started speaking openly about this. I will not misgender them.” She breaks this pledge 17 days later. [message]
Tasha files a petition for an order of protection against Mouna. The sexual assault checkbox is unchecked. The sexual assault description is left blank. No mention of any kill threat. Her five cited incidents: seeing Mouna at public locations. [petition] Read more
Tasha encourages a group of eight people to confront Mouna at their home. The group comes armed. Mouna is told to kill themselves (even after disclosing recent suicidal ideation), threatened with a gun, told how to answer questions, ordered to leave their own home, and ordered to end their relationship. After Mouna leaves, the group celebrates: “We just took a fucking house from someone.” They occupy the home for seven months. The entire encounter is audio recorded. Read more [audio]
Tasha learns about the recording within ~12 hours via Claire Caplain (Sawyer). She asks her attorney about it and requests a copy. She asks Sawyer whether Mouna “straight up” confessed; Sawyer tells her no. Despite this, Tasha later tells multiple people a “candid confession” exists. She also premediates with Blithe a lie about not knowing the recording existed. [deposition, pp.82-85]
Tasha’s petition for order of protection is denied. Under oath, she does not articulate any specific threats. On cross-examination: “Never made any threats to you, correct?” “Correct.” That same evening, she posts on Facebook calling Mouna “a serial abuser and rapist,” escalating from the “sexual coercion” she used under oath hours earlier. [OP transcript] Read more
Seventeen days after pledging not to misgender Mouna, Tasha publishes a public Facebook post deploying the anti-trans “deceiver” trope: framing Mouna’s gender identity as a costume, accusing them of strategically switching identities to gain advantage, and policing their gender expression. [post] Read more
Tasha posts publicly on Facebook: “women were sold. we were sold for gifts of $100, $1,600, and $2,700,” accusing Cori Bush of taking bribes and selling women. She uses #occupyradix to promote the occupation of Mouna’s home. She messages Tishaura Jones, claiming organizations and politicians turned a blind eye. Jones offers to talk to Bruce Franks about a joint public statement. [post] [Jones messages]
Tasha follows up repeatedly with Tishaura Jones and Bruce Franks, pressing them to issue a joint public statement against Mouna. Jones speculates about “hush money” and acknowledges: “I’m making terrible assumptions.” [messages]
Tasha tells Niles Zee she is “presently feeling very afraid of” Cori Bush. She later denies this under oath. Her own produced documents directly contradict her sworn testimony. [message]
Tasha posts on Facebook distinguishing between “sexual coercion” and “rape”: “I classify what happened to me to be sexual coercion. Some people consider that rape. Some don’t.” She also falsely claims Mouna “told a table full of people that they raped me. They used the word rape.” She later admits under oath those words were never spoken. Adriane publicly accuses Cori Bush: “She looked the other way to line her pockets!” [post] [Adriane’s post]
Tasha tells Mickey Yacyshyn that Mouna is “tricky” and “they change their appearance often which makes things hard,” deploying the anti-trans deceiver trope explicitly. [message]
Tasha tells Andrew Warshauer that Bush “could save a lot of people a lot of grief and shut a lot of that crap down fast” and relays that someone told her “nick’s money was reparations money and i was doing this for attention.” [message]
Tasha drops the pretense of correct pronouns. She tells Gabriela Szteinberg: “sometimes he has a beard. sometimes he wears women’s clothes,” calls Mouna “a serial sex offender” and “bro,” and falsely claims: “He knows he’s not allowed to come within 500 feet of me,” eleven months after the court denied her petition. [message]
Tasha files a police report, nearly eleven months after the OP denial. No criminal charges result. The timing coincides with a civil lawsuit filing. [deposition, pp.79-82]
Tasha claims Mouna “seems to really like hurting jewish women,” weaponizing antisemitism against Mouna. [deposition]
Tasha tells Niles Zee: “our heroes are hypocrites and the ppl who should help me would rather just take money from nick.” [message]
Tasha tells Elle Dowd: “says he is non binary,” framing Mouna’s identity as a mere claim. She dismisses the topic as “gender garbage.” She also tells Justine Collum that Bush “took money from him and said him being a rapist didn’t matter.” [message to Dowd] [message to Collum]
Tasha publishes a public Facebook post accusing progressive politicians and organizations: “they hid evidence. they kept bribes. they refused to hold their peers accountable. they slandered me. they lied to me. they extorted me. they screamed at me.” [post]
Tasha files a civil lawsuit against Mouna (Case No. 18SL-CC04489, Circuit Court of St. Louis County). She later abandons it. [CaseNet]
Nearly six years after the alleged March 2013 event, Tasha first puts the kill-threat claim in writing, in a message to Benjamin Singer. She had never mentioned it in her sworn petition, at the OP hearing, on Facebook, or to T-Rex. [messages] Read more
Tasha posts publicly on Facebook that police had “a candid confession from my rapist.” [post]
Tasha tells Benjamin Singer: “a two hour recording of him candidly confessing” and that Mouna “gets a real kick out of trapping, raping, and abusing jewish women and woc.” She asks Singer to confront Mouna at their workplace. She simultaneously dispatches Mark Povich to the same workplace. She tells Marissa Scott: “I am scorching earth until Nick meets my demands.” [Singer messages] [Povich exhibit]
Tasha publicly accuses Megan Green and Dhoruba Hill of “purposefully withholding evidence in a legal proceeding against a rapist” and questions their fitness for office. In the comments: “I AM NOT GOING TO GO AWAY.” [post]
Mouna is granted a full order of protection against Tasha (Case No. 1922-PN00413). This is the reverse of what Tasha had been telling people. [CaseNet]
Tasha encourages the doxxing of Claire Voltaire, a Jewish woman writing under a pseudonym to protect herself and her Black, disabled, Jewish daughter. Claire describes sending her daughter to friends, going without sleep for three days, and discovering QAnon forums taking interest in her identity. [Claire’s account]
Tasha tweets: “doxxing is the new decolonization,” publicly celebrating the practice. [tweet]
Tasha tweets she “officially changed my mind about zionism in 2014 after living through brother’s keeper,” after dating Mouna. She had previously accused Mouna of antisemitism for holding views on Israel she herself later adopted. [tweet]
Kaminsky deposition. Under oath, Tasha admits the words “I raped Tasha” were never spoken on the recording. She admits the tax evasion claim was based on CaseNet records that do not support it. She admits she had no direct evidence of bribery. Her selective memory pattern is documented across hundreds of pages. [deposition]
Three-day trial in Apperson v. Kaminsky, Circuit Court of St. Louis County, Division 9, Hon. David Lee Vincent III presiding. Only three witnesses testify, all called by Mouna: Mouna, Tasha Kaminsky, and Adriane Norman. The defense calls zero witnesses and presents no case of its own. Tasha’s credibility collapses under cross-examination. Adriane’s consent claim about the nude video collapses on redirect. The trial judge recognizes Mouna’s apologies as de-escalation. No documentary evidence contradicts Mouna on any material point. [trial transcript] Read more
After testimony concludes, the defense moves for directed verdict, asking the judge to take the decision away from the jury. They make no claim that their statements about Mouna were true. They argue only a narrow procedural point about the category of evidence. The trial court grants it. The jury is discharged without deliberation. [trial transcript, pp.395-420]
The Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, affirms the directed verdict. [CaseNet]
The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously reverses the directed verdict in Apperson v. Kaminsky, No. SC101020. The Court holds that the legal standard the trial court applied had “neither any legal authority nor any justification.” The Court details concrete consequences of the defendants’ false statements: Mouna was forced from their home for seven months, banned from a coffee shop, forced to disassociate from two organizations they founded, lost a speaking engagement, and was ejected from shared office space. The Court expressly overrules the line of erroneous cases and remands for a new trial. [opinion] Read more
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