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The alleged victim in a police corruption case was afraid and depressed when her biological mother, Shannon Peterson, visited her at her Calgary home in September 2012, court heard Wednesday.

Peterson said when she stayed with Akele Taylor for about a week, her daughter kept the blinds closed at all times and talked of being followed every day.

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“She couldn’t eat,” Peterson testified. “She was upset. She was so skinny. These people were harassing her day and night. She was really depressed. At times she wanted to commit suicide.”

Peterson appeared as one of several witnesses called by the Crown on Wednesday in the ongoing trial of three Calgary police officers.

Anthony Braile, Bryan Morton and Bradford McNish face charges of bribery and unlawfully using a police computer system.

Braile, who has since been fired from the Calgary Police Service over an unrelated incident, faces an additional charge of criminal harassment and McNish an extra allegation of breach of trust by a public officer, while Morton faces both additional accusations.