He was 18, a scholarship boy from a bitterly broken home, a star scholar-athlete—captain of the varsity soccer team—who had won full-ride admission to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, Duke, Stanford, Middlebury, and the University of Virginia, and two days later would be the winner of the headmaster’s award for “selfless devotion to School activities.”. At the trial—after he knew that his DNA had been found in the victim’s underwear—he was more specific, recounting for the first time how he might have prematurely ejaculated during “dry humping” in a way that left semen on his boxer shorts or her underwear. In that letter, Denise Holland said that she runs a rescue shelter for Labrador retrievers in her home and that Owen sometimes falls asleep on the floor comforting the dogs. Owen Labrie, now 23, was released Monday morning after getting a reduction to his remaining 10-month sentence for good behavior, according to The Associated Press. In public statements, St. Paul’s and many of its students, alumni, and friends have insisted that what happened in this case was not representative of the broader culture of an institution that, since its founding, in 1856, has educated the cream of the American aristocracy. "Prominent SPS parent" Joshua Abram, the cofounder and co-CEO of … He says her underwear never came off. Owen Labrie Found Not Guilty Of Felony Sex Assault At St. Paul's School. They shared stolen keys not just to the science-building mechanical room but to other private spaces on the grounds. A senior law-enforcement official involved in the case told me that if at any point in the long investigation Labrie had acknowledged wrongdoing and expressed regret, the case could probably have been resolved without even a conviction, by sending Labrie to a sex-offender diversion program. The rise of social media has exacerbated the situation and driven such behavior underground to adult-free cyberspace. St. Paul’s School, like other elite prep schools across the country, has grappled with its history of sexual abuse claims and embarked on reforms aimed at preventing abuse and supporting victims, according to school officials. Owen Labrie’s life is also in shambles. Before receiving this assignment, I had corresponded with the rector, Michael Hirschfeld—himself from the St. Paul’s form of 1985—expressing misgivings about the school’s public statements and its handling of the case. Owen Labrie, of Turnbridge, Vermont, was convicted in 2015 of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old classmate in 2014. “I think,” she told him, “I just had sex with Owen Labrie.”. A New Hampshire prep school has settled a lawsuit filed by the parents of a student who was sexually assaulted by Owen Labrie. He will be settling in and working on rebuilding his life," Labrie’s lawyers said in a statement to ABC News.        Boston Helps. Labrie’s lawyer offered these messages as proof that the victim had not just undergone a traumatic experience—and perhaps had not even had sex at all—while the prosecution explained them as the reverse: a textbook example of a date-rape victim’s efforts to placate and pacify her assailant. All of this makes me sad. School officials did not directly address Crawford’s claims. Roger Ailes would be on trial for felony rape if he had engaged in the behavior Owen Labrie inflicted on Prout. “Notes on a Silencing,” by Lacy Crawford, is due out in July. Owen Labrie was 18 and days away from graduation when he sent the girl a “senior salute”. When I began my reporting, Hirschfeld expressed a willingness to talk, but he and the school’s lawyer and the president of the board of trustees repeatedly deferred or delayed requests for interviews before finally issuing a formal statement and answering some written questions. He attended the school with the help of scholarship aid and went on to a successful career in international finance, based for many years in Tokyo, where the victim attended Catholic elementary school. The freshest-and most essential-updates from Washington, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley. as of Monday, Moderna vaccine protects against British and South African variants, company says, ACLU sues Rhode Island town after resident ordered to take down signs critical of local government, Site It would not be unreasonable to imagine that much more could be done. She acknowledged being excited as she and Labrie kissed in the dark against a wall, then sank to the floor. Ad Choices. —St. A father of a recent graduate, who questioned his son about the prosecution’s evidence that Labrie had kept a list of girls he wanted to “slay,” told me that his son had reported, “Dad, if this guy was going to do it, he was the type that would make a list.” By all accounts, Labrie was super-competitive, always eager to prove his worth among the group of mostly wealthy, well-connected kids who were his best friends. The school prayer beseeches God to “grant that in all the joys of life, we may never forget to be kind.” The school’s secular credo—coined by Hirschfeld when he was director of admissions—is “Freedom with Responsibility,” a concept now under debate. She described Owen’s construction of a small wooden chapel on his father’s property last year as a “service project.” On her advice, after being questioned by police, Owen deleted some 119 Facebook messages relating to the senior salute and his interaction with girls at school. While evidence suggests that the term “senior salute”—in which 12th-grade students of either gender in their last months at school reached out to younger students of the opposite sex—had not existed for more than two or three years, the practice of “scoring,” or “secret scoring,” in which students kept track of their romantic or sexual conquests, had existed for much longer, as had the ritual of upper-class boys’ “ranking” younger girls’ attractiveness as the boys sat in a common room outside the main dining hall after meals. But in its sentencing memo after Labrie’s conviction, the prosecution cited various electronic communications revealing Labrie’s unvarnished views. Are these words and what they suggest a part of our air? What she got was something else: a physical encounter that, she testified, quickly escalated beyond her comfort. She has also filed a case against Labrie of sexual violence and he was put … “He’s the big man on campus, and he asked her,” the contemporary’s father said. There has been much hand-wringing about whether Labrie’s felony conviction for using a computer to lure a minor was warranted, since the impetus for the law under which he was charged was to stop adults from preying on under-age victims, not to police teenage behavior. He finally settled on J. W. Carney, a prominent Boston defense lawyer who has also represented the mobster Whitey Bulger, retaining his services with $100,000 raised from several St. Paul’s families. Parents, in fact, are best positioned to ground dialogue in family values and expectations for behavior. There was serious drug and alcohol abuse by students (and, in the case of alcohol, by some teachers), and these issues were dealt with inconsistently. New Hampshire, 2014: Owen LaBrie's 'senior salute' to a 15-year-old college freshman at St. Paul's School leads to … "Owen is happy to be home with his family. Every other Saturday night, my friends and I were quietly allowed to stay in the school newspaper’s basement offices until one or two A.M. in order to work on it, creeping back to our dorm through the dew unafraid. Labrie is now back in Vermont with his mother and spending time with his father, who lives about 10 miles away. Attorney J.W. In 2015, Owen Labrie, of Tunbridge, Vermont, was acquitted of raping a 15-year-old classmate a year earlier as part of "Senior Salute," a game of sexual conquest, at St. Paul's School in … Deaths The teacher involved declined to comment, citing school policy, but others with knowledge of the situation told me that the boys were given a talking-to by their faculty advisers and made to apologize to the housemaster but were not otherwise disciplined. She acknowledged at trial that she had shaved her pubic hair in advance, and her closest friend told the police that the girl had said she was probably willing to let Labrie finger her vagina, and to fellate him, though she herself testified that she did not recall saying this. Labrie had solicited the defense fund in a letter that the prosecution contended violated the terms of his pre-trial release, which barred him from contacting the victim or her family or anyone associated with St. Paul’s, but since he was in the process of firing his lawyer at the time, prosecutors conceded he might not have been aware of the conditions. A date has not yet been set for trial, but a public airing of the sordid details of the case would only bring more scrutiny to the school and raise new questions about Hirschfeld’s leadership.        Charts Defenders of St. Paul’s point to its curriculum on “Living in Community.” In line with its tenets, students are taught “self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship building and positive decision-making.” As a prefect, or dorm leader, Labrie had received explicit training in the definition of statutory rape—“statch,” as students call it—and responsible sexual conduct, and signed a statement affirming his special obligation to follow the rules. Here's who that includes. “I don’t understand the culture of some of the adults there,” another longtime former faculty member told me. By Corey Hendrickson/Getty Images Assignment. "Owen is happy to be home with his family. At this point, Dershowitz’s involvement is more theoretical than practical, but Rancourt told me that Dershowitz has, in fact, offered his services in drafting the appeal. After one girl had rejected his advances, for example, Labrie variously wrote: “she turned me down … fucking hate forbidden fruit … fuckin girls so much.” He quotes from a comedian’s routine: “another dumb cum-bucket struck from my nut sucking, suck it slut, slut fucking bucket list.” Writing to friends, Labrie said his style with women was to “feign intimacy … then stab them in the back.        Map New Hampshire state-superior-court judge Larry Smukler ruled that nothing prejudicial to the defendant could be admitted. The ghastly details of what Owen Labrie did -- how an 18-year-old senior and top student, targeted and lured Chessy into the so-called Senior Salute -- go way beyond verbal sexual harassment experienced by Carlson. On Monday, Owen Labrie, the 23-year-old convicted of sexual assault as a New Hampshire prep school student, was released early from prison on good behavior. This evaluation, conducted by a probation officer, concluded that Labrie had not been truthful about several matters—a contention Labrie’s lawyers dispute. Its statements about the case have been so heavily lawyered as to lack proper nouns, action verbs, even palpable sadness. In August, a jury acquitted Labrie on the charge of forcible felony rape but convicted him on three misdemeanor counts of statutory rape—penetration of his under-age victim with his hands, tongue, and penis—and on a felony charge of using a computer to lure a minor for sex, an offense that requires him to register as a sex offender for life. One thing is for certain: two lives have been irreparably damaged. Posts about Owen Labrie written by Campaign Outsider. Not in our school.’ ”, In the spring of 2014, one faculty member, a housemaster in a girls’ dorm, complained in an e-mail to senior administrators about senior boys trolling for under-age girls. Interesting Page One compare ‘n’ contrast in today’s Boston dailies: The Globe front-pages a story the Herald doesn’t have at all, and vice versa.. According to one former longtime faculty member, Hirschfeld himself first heard the term “senior salute” in the spring of 2013—a full year before the Labrie case—when a student in Labrie’s dormitory accidentally left his computer logged on and a dorm-mate punked him by sending a message to the rector’s wife, Liesbeth, asking “Senior salute?” But the school year was ending and no one seems to have run the meaning of the term to ground, or ascertained the prevalence of the practice. The one sentiment that unites the families of Labrie and the victim is outrage at St. Paul’s. By Sunday morning, again at the urging of her friends, she was worried enough about a possible pregnancy that she went to the infirmary and asked for a “Plan B” contraception pill, but told the nurse on duty that she’d had consensual sex. Media contact: Carole Alfano, NH Judicial Branch 603- 271-2646. And when she felt something inside her that she knew could not be his hands—since she could see them above her waist—she froze. Hypersexualized behavior among teenagers is not unique to St. Paul’s. All rights reserved. While Labrie had been due to serve the last 10 months of his sentence, he was released on Monday morning around 8:30 a.m. “Owen is happy to be home with his family. Public records and local media reports in Concord have identified the girl as a St. Paul’s senior at the time; the boy is understood to be the son of a St. Paul’s staff member. 23-year-old Owen Labrie has to report to jail for the remaining 10 months of his sentence By Michael Casey • Published December 18, 2018 • Updated on December 18, 2018 at 10:03 pm The victim initially rejected Labrie’s flirtatious invitation to climb “hidden steps” to a door whose hinges had suddenly “swung open in my hands.” But after the intercession of a fellow ninth-grader—a dorm-mate of Labrie’s, now a varsity hockey player, still at the school—she relented. Because the jury acquitted Labrie of forcible rape, Smukler said, “does not mean the victim consented to the sexual penetration, and indeed it is clear from the impact of this crime that she did not.”. A judge on Tuesday refused to shorten the jail term on Tuesday for former St. Paul's School student, Owen Labrie, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old classmate in 2015. His parents are Cannon Labrie and Denise Holland. Help, St. Paul’s School official: Teacher’s departure ‘badly handled’. In a 2013 essay in the school newspaper, The Pelican, Labrie himself had written about the practice. Updated 06/07/2019 . The victim testified that she returned to her own dorm in a state of confusion, offering the same half-giddy, half-stunned confession—“I think I just had sex with Owen Labrie”—to her friends. She said he bit her breasts through the bra, hard enough to hurt her. Denise Holland is a public-school teacher in Vermont. Disclosure: I am an alumnus of St. Paul’s, from the class, or “form,” of 1978. “Completely asinine, and not in tune with any teenager’s reality. Will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Instead it involved some acknowledged leaders of the school: the captain of the soccer team; editors of the newspaper; a class officer of the grade behind Labrie. By all accounts, the sisters are extremely close, with the younger all but idolizing the older. When Labrie returned to his dorm, he told dorm-mates, who proffered high-fives—and friends with whom he later exchanged electronic messages—that he had, in fact, had sex with the girl. A rotating cadre of circle-the-wagons trustees and administrators who would defend the school’s reputation in the face of damning facts and obvious misconduct. © 2021 Condé Nast. Phase 2 of Mass.        Resources She didn’t know how hard to press. He remains free while he appeals the convictions, with a legal team led by the former president of the New Hampshire Bar Association and with a likely assist from Alan Dershowitz, who is himself in the midst of vigorously disputing allegations that he had sex with an under-age girl. vaccine rollout begins next week. “Anyone who has a sweet relationship can tell you it is not.” In a speech to the student body last spring, Hirschfeld recalled having heard both male and female students use the words “slay” and “slayer” in references to sexual relationships. Like a Rashomon episode of Showtime’s The Affair, almost everything else depends on the protagonists’ divergent perspectives, dueling recollections, and diametrically opposed interpretations of intent. All students and faculty are required to live “on grounds.” The master plan for its interlocking network of ponds, waterfalls, and pathways was laid out by the firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of New York’s Central Park. Why was that? How about accountability?” In its school prayer, St. Paul’s asks divine help to “bear the burdens of others.” Its own burdens are the ones that need attention now. They say some of her volleyball teammates declined to eat with her the first night back and that members of the men’s hockey team stood up and pointed at her as she walked down the street. On Monday, Owen Labrie, the 23-year-old convicted of sexual assault as a New Hampshire prep school student, was released early from prison on good behavior. Labrie’s victim is the middle daughter of a 1980s-era graduate of St. Paul’s. Last fall, the authorities in New Hampshire charged Donald Levesque, a former teacher’s assistant at a nearby day school, with luring two of his former students—an 18-year-old girl and an under-age boy—in December 2013 for a mutual sexual encounter in his home, and with repeatedly abusing the boy over several months. What I’ve learned has made me as sorry as if I were covering a crisis in my own family—which, in a sense, I am. He hired and fired three lawyers and, whether out of ignorance or arrogance or wishful thinking, rejected more than one proposed plea bargain that would have involved minimal jail time and no registration as a sex offender. Their message was somewhat undercut by the fact that one of the signers, now a freshman at Princeton, is identified in court documents as having received stolen keys from Labrie. “Freedom with responsibility?” a recently retired faculty member said of Mike Hirschfeld’s motto. Paul’s School Prayer. FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2015, file photo, St. Paul's School graduate Owen Labrie raises his hand to be sworn-in prior to testifying in his trial at Merrimack Superior Court in Concord, N.H. Chessy Prout's family filed the lawsuit in 2016, arguing that St. Paul's School should have done more to protect her. Cannon Labrie is a graduate of Andover with a Ph.D. from Brown, a onetime college instructor, an editor at Chelsea Green Publishing, and a sometime amateur musician. “We respect her courage and honor her voice,” the two said in the statement to the school community this week. ... Chessy Prout and her family … A group of recent graduates wrote a letter to The Boston Globe last September, insisting that the case was not representative of student life at St. Paul’s. Owen Labrie, the prep school graduate accused of raping a younger student at St. Paul’s School, was found not guilty on the main sexual assault charge. In its most recent accreditation of St. Paul’s, in 2007, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges recommended that the school “review the balance between student freedom and institutional responsibility,” particularly “with respect to safety and supervision in the evening hours.” In 2010, the school responded in a self-evaluation, noting that dorm check-in hours had been moved up half an hour in the fall and winter to 10 P.M.; school buildings were locked at 10 P.M.; faculty were encouraged to walk around the dorms after hours; theater practices were moved from evening hours to afternoons. When Labrie soon e-mailed her, “You’re an angel,” she replied—with the help of her friends—“You’re quite an angel yourself, but would you mind keeping the sequence of events to yourself for now?” As the night wore on, the exchange of electronic messages continued, punctuated on the victim’s end by repeated “ha-ha-ha”s and light badinage. New Hampshire prep school responds to sex assault account in Vanity Fair It's the same school where Owen Labrie sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl in a high-profile 2014 case. The victim’s family says the school betrayed its promises to guarantee her safe and successful return to campus, and allowed a student culture to flourish in which teachers and administrators—cowed by rich and powerful parents—allowed the inmates to run the asylum. “I don’t think she saw this coming,” one law-enforcement official involved in the case told me. Roger Ailes would be on trial for felony rape if he had engaged in the behavior Owen Labrie inflicted on Prout. He says she giggled and seemed to enjoy their kissing, caressing, and rolling around—an assessment she does not dispute. She held on to her underpants with both hands. There are two very different accounts of what happened the evening of May 30, 2014, at the elite prep school between 18-year-old scholar-athlete Owen Labrie and a 15-year-old freshman girl. The resulting whirlwind has consumed the rarefied world of St. Paul’s, made front-page news across the country, inspired an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and sparked fresh debate about the meaning of sexual consent and about teenage hookup culture in the age of social media. Last October, Owen Labrie, a former student at St. Paul’s school in Concord, New Hampshire, was sentenced to a year in prison for sexually assaulting a freshman just before he graduated in 2014. Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, class of 1930, took a head-clearing walk around the Lower School Pond during the crisis over his subpoena of Richard Nixon’s White House tapes. But the father of one of the victim’s contemporaries at St. Paul’s told me that the younger girl also struggled at times “with her identity in competition with her sister.” The victim testified at trial that she took daily medication for anxiety and depression, and the evidence shows that from the outset she was ambivalent—alternately curious and wary—about a potential encounter with Labrie, whom she had known only casually through her sister, who had broken off a brief relationship with him. The students said this seems to be changing in the aftermath of the Labrie case. At trial, he insisted he had done so only to avoid confessing the fumbling details of a make-out session gone sour. On the evening of Friday, May 30, 2014, Owen Labrie, carrying a backpack, a blanket, and a key that he himself acknowledged was stolen, took the girl to a dark attic mechanical room, in the $50 million math-and-science building named for the old New York family that produced Mayor John V. Lindsay, for an encounter that turned sexual. Women are quick … Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Your California Privacy Rights. She says he raped her, with both of his hands visible above her waist. There is at least one more very heavy shoe to drop. CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former student detailed her account of sexual assault in the 1990s at a New Hampshire boarding school in a recent Vanity Fair article, and school officials commended her for speaking out. The result is that 18- and 19-year-olds are on the same campus with students as young as 14. The account that follows is based on that information and on interviews with faculty, staff, parents, alumni, and students (all of whom consider themselves friends of the school); with a senior law-enforcement official involved in the case; with representatives of the families of Owen Labrie and the victim (whose identity Vanity Fair is shielding in conformity with standard practice in cases of sexual crimes involving under-age persons); and with the father of the victim. The report recommended that Labrie undergo a rigorous course of sex-offender treatment while confined to state prison—not jail—and should not be eligible for parole until he had completed that program. But the Labrie case shows that there may be aspects of life in the privileged—and highly independent—atmosphere of an elite boarding school that allowed an Owen Labrie to flourish undetected. Social-media and yearbook photos of Labrie often show a handsome, suntanned, windblown frat-boy-in-training—a marked contrast to the horn-rimmed Harry Potter persona he presented at trial. Labrie didn't grow up in a wealthy family, and earned a scholarship to St. Paul's. The school’s lush grounds—a wonderland in winter; a lilac-scented Arden in the spring—are the envy of many a small college. “She did say no. St. Paul's School (also known as St. Paul's or SPS) is a highly selective college-preparatory, coeducational boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire, affiliated with the Episcopal Church.It is often regarded as one of the most elite boarding schools in the United States. “ ‘Nuff said? The first person the victim saw was a classmate, who happened to be the son of the rector. Much less noticed is the fact that the trial judge’s split-the-difference sentence of a year in jail was more lenient than the penalty recommended by the pre-sentencing investigation requested by Labrie’s own defense counsel. Labrie was eventually convicted and served about six months in jail, and his case prompted other former students to step forward with allegations of sexual abuse by faculty and staff, some dating back decades. CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A judge declined Tuesday to shorten the jail term for an elite prep school graduate convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old classmate in 2015, saying he needed to consider the victim's family, which wants him to serve the remaining 10 months of his sentence. towns will be capped through February as state lags behind on rollout, Janet Yellen wins Senate approval as treasury secretary, New Hampshire bans vaccines for out-of-state homeowners, Mass. Owen Labrie, 23, of Tunbridge, Vermont, was acquitted in 2015 of raping a 15-year-old classmate at St. Paul's School. Students make their way to Coit Dormitory, named for the first rector at St. Paul’s. Firstly, Owen Labrie wasn’t much more of a young man than she was a young woman, or much less of a boy than she was a girl. “Somebody should have said, ‘Senior salute? The pair left the Lindsay building separately. The school's 2,000-acre (8.1 km 2) campus currently serves 539 students, who come from 40 states and 18 countries. Crawford, who was 15 at the time of the alleged assault, says she developed herpetic lesions on her throat. The girl’s family is wealthy. He has given one on-the-record interview, to Newsweek, which portrayed him sympathetically as a young man whose ambitions to join the ministry have been derailed by a youthful indiscretion and a murkiness in the law. He was found guilty of a felony computer charge and multiple others. https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2018/12/26/owen-labrie-reports-to-jail Its distinguished alumni include the novelists Owen Wister and Rick Moody; the diplomats John Gilbert Winant and John F. Kerry; Senator Sheldon Whitehouse; the actors Judd Nelson (my classmate) and Catherine Oxenberg; plus Garry Trudeau and a passel of Pillsburys, Chubbs, Reids, Rutherfurds, and Wilmerdings, along with the worthy heirs of clergymen, diplomats, teachers, and other promising scholarship kids like Labrie. But the reverberations continue. Owen Labrie arrives at Merrimack County Superior Court for his amended sentence hearing, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018, in Concord, N.H. A judge has refused to shorten the jail term for Labrie, a New Hampshire prep school graduate convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old classmate in 2015, saying he has to report to jail for the remaining 10 months of his sentence the day after Christmas. 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