Woman who fatally stabbed Long Island man says he drugged her, claims she acted in self-defense

The woman who fatally stabbed a Long Island man in his home claims it was “justified self-defense” because he knocked her out with a date-rape drug and then tried to sexually assault her, according to her defense attorneys.Robert “Bobby” Carragher, 28, died in his father’s arms as his horrified mother watched on after Kristin Sculley, 22, stabbed him in the basement of his parents’ home in Massapequa, where the two had allegedly arranged a late-night meet-up, according to police.Sculley, who is charged with second-degree murder, admits being a long-time drug addict who had been on a days-long coke and meth bender — and immediately passed out after the fatal stabbing, her defense attorney, Dennis Lemke, told a packed courtroom in Mineola on Wednesday, CBS News reported.But she claims she only stabbed Carragher in the neck after she woke from a drugged-out haze to find him trying to sexually assault her, Lemke told the hearing.It made the deadly stabbing “justified self-defense,” Lemke claimed at the hearing — during which someone yelled out, “Liar!”Sculley claims Carragher was her long-time drug dealer who had sold her cocaine and meth — which they had been doing together at his home the previous two days before the slaying, the attorney said.She claims that on the morning of the stabbing, Carragher gave her a vape that contained an apparent date-rape drug that left her unable to move, Lemke told the court, according to Newsday.“She was given some type of drug that, she felt very loopy, was passing out.She woke up, he was on top of her, trying to abuse her, sexually,” Lemke said.“That’s when she grabbed the knife that was there and stabbed him one time … She went and passed out only 15 feet away.”Sculley has been battling drug addiction her whole life and had done a stint in rehab and had recently relapsed, said Lemke.The courtroom, which was filled with members from both families, reportedly erupted in audible gasps and one pe...