The sexual assault trial of Owen Labrie, a 19-year-old graduate of elite St. Paul’s prep school in New Hampshire, continued Thursday, with the prosecution arguing that Labrie planned for months to have sex with his 15-year-old alleged victim and used “tricks” to lure her into an encounter in the school’s machine room.
Nineteen-year-old former St. Paul’s School student Owen Labrie, who stands accused of raping a 15-year-old student as part of a sex competition, testified today that he thought his accuser was having a “great time” during the encounter she says was rape. Buzzfeed notes that Labrie still denies the two had sex.
The teenage girl at the center of the prep school rape trial testified this week that she worried about offending her alleged rapist, a popular senior student at St. Paul’s School, even as he “scraped” the inside of her body, bit her, and spat on her during their alleged encounter in the school’s mechanical room.
Nineteen-year-old Owen Labrie, a former prefect at the elite St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire, stands accused of raping a 15-year-old student in 2014 as part of the school’s unofficial, traditional sex competition where senior men try to sleep with as many underclassmen as possible. Labrie’s defense,…
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