Carlee Russell’s Boyfriend Pleads With Skeptics to ‘Stop Bullying Her’

The boyfriend of Carlee Russell, an Alabama woman facing backlash after police cast doubt on her claims of a dramatic roadside abduction, is calling on those who accuse her of a hoax to lay off.

“The only thing I can say is, I want everyone to stop bullying her,” Thomas Latrell Simmons was quoted telling the New York Post late Saturday. “I know what it seems like what she did. Just stop bullying on social media,” he said.

“Think about her mental health. She doesn’t deserve that. She doesn’t. Nobody deserves to be cyberbullied,” he said.

Read more at The Daily Beast.