Author: Wild | Wild About Trial
BOSTON – The fate of Dublin firefighter Terence Crosbie is once again in the hands of a jury. This is round two for Crosbie, 38, who is accused of raping a woman in a Boston hotel after last year’s St. Patrick’s Day parade.
Prosecutors say Crosbie was in town with a group of Irish firefighters, a trip meant for marching and pints, not criminal indictments. The woman told jurors she first had consensual sex with Crosbie’s roommate, firefighter Liam O’Brien. They went to sleep in separate beds, and she says she woke up to Crosbie raping her.
Terence Crosbie. (Boston Police Department)
Crosbie admits he entered the hotel room but insists he never touched her. Prosecutors counter with surveillance video they say puts him in the room at exactly the wrong time.
This is déjà vu for everyone involved. The first trial ended in June with a hung jury. No verdict, just a reset button.
A rape kit was done at Massachusetts General, but DNA results turned into a forensic shrug: two male profiles were detected, but experts said the samples were too weak to name names.
Meanwhile, Crosbie has been cooling his heels in Suffolk County Jail, held on $50,000 bail. For him, the Boston parade hangover is stretching well into its second year.
