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Witness in Karen Read trial breaks down describing harassment her family has faced
Allie McCabe became visibly choked up as she explained that her family has had “people showing up at our house, people emailing my school” as a result of the case.
Allison “Allie” McCabe, whose family has become entangled in the online speculation surrounding the Karen Read murder trial, broke down in tears Wednesday as she described the harassment the McCabes and Alberts have faced throughout the case.
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McCabe, 20, took the stand Wednesday to testify about giving her friend Colin Albert a ride home from 34 Fairview Road in Canton shortly after midnight on Jan. 29, 2022. Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe’s body was found outside the home later that morning, and prosecutors allege Read, O’Keefe’s girlfriend of two years, is to blame.
Read, 44, is accused of drunkenly backing her SUV into O’Keefe and leaving him to die in the snow. Yet lawyers for the Mansfield woman argue that others are responsible for killing O’Keefe, and they’ve sought to implicate Colin Albert in their theory.
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On the stand, McCabe was adamant that Albert was no longer at 34 Fairview Road by the time Read and O’Keefe arrived.
“What, if anything else, has your family or Colin Albert and his family undergone during the pendency of this case?” Norfolk County Assistant District Attorney Adam Lally asked McCabe Wednesday.
“Well, basically harassment,” she replied, specifically citing “bloggers, people online.”
She recalled “constant phone calls, emails, awful messages” and became visibly choked up as she explained that her family has had “people showing up at our house, people emailing my school.”
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“Just, like, a lot of harassment,” she said through sobs. The harassment, she said, has persisted for “a very long time.”
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