One Owen Labrie, a graduate of elite St. Paul's prep school in New Hampshire, is now on trial for raping a 15-year-old girl student at the school while he was a senior. He was first charged with ten felonies, now pared to three.
The "Senior Salute" is an annual competition among senior boys of who can have sex with the largest number of younger female students.
Owen Labrie
Labrie was 18 when the alleged assault took place on May 30, 2014. He was a prefect at St. Paul's and had been accepted to Harvard, where he planned to study theology. During his initial interview with Concord police, he spoke openly about the Senior Salute and his participation in it (hoping to be "number one"). He described the scoreboard he and his classmates kept, written in marker on a wall behind some washing machines (which, he says, the school kept painting over, so they eventually moved it online).
I read that this "Senior Salute" business was a competition to deflower as many young girls as possible, and it's been going on for many years. This terrible kid wanted to be "Number One" in this activity and also wanted to be a minister and planned to study theology at Harvard. I wonder if Harvard will still allow him entry? Probably, if he isn't in prison. I can't understand how a person can have two such disparate ambitions without his head splitting open.
Besides hoping this kid DOES go to prison as I follow the trial, I would like to know why the school allowed all this to continue year after year, decade after decade. Surely they could have stopped it? They could call in girls, call in the seniors, tell them it's absolutely a dead tradition and anyone doing it faces expulsion.
The main thing I think is that this is why the "only yes means yes" idea out of California is what we need on all school campuses. She said no, she tried to stop him, but he was bigger and he just couldn't hear a no.
The "Senior Salute" is an annual competition among senior boys of who can have sex with the largest number of younger female students.
Owen Labrie
Labrie was 18 when the alleged assault took place on May 30, 2014. He was a prefect at St. Paul's and had been accepted to Harvard, where he planned to study theology. During his initial interview with Concord police, he spoke openly about the Senior Salute and his participation in it (hoping to be "number one"). He described the scoreboard he and his classmates kept, written in marker on a wall behind some washing machines (which, he says, the school kept painting over, so they eventually moved it online).
I read that this "Senior Salute" business was a competition to deflower as many young girls as possible, and it's been going on for many years. This terrible kid wanted to be "Number One" in this activity and also wanted to be a minister and planned to study theology at Harvard. I wonder if Harvard will still allow him entry? Probably, if he isn't in prison. I can't understand how a person can have two such disparate ambitions without his head splitting open.
Besides hoping this kid DOES go to prison as I follow the trial, I would like to know why the school allowed all this to continue year after year, decade after decade. Surely they could have stopped it? They could call in girls, call in the seniors, tell them it's absolutely a dead tradition and anyone doing it faces expulsion.
The main thing I think is that this is why the "only yes means yes" idea out of California is what we need on all school campuses. She said no, she tried to stop him, but he was bigger and he just couldn't hear a no.
