NEW HAMPSHIRE
CBS News
CONCORD, N.H. — Jurors have begun deliberating whether a graduate of an elite New Hampshire prep school raped a freshman as part of a tradition of sexual conquest called Senior Salute.
The jury got the case Thursday afternoon after closing arguments and instructions from the judge. Nineteen-year-old Owen Labrie, of Tunbridge, Vermont, faces six sexual assault charges, three of them felonies.
Prosecutors say he raped a 15-year-old freshman in a dark, deserted building on May 30, 2014, two days before he graduated last year from St. Paul’s School in Concord.
Labrie contends the two had consensual sexual contact but not intercourse. The girl testified that she “froze” as the events of that night went way beyond what she had envisioned.
Two alternates in the trial were chosen Thursday, leaving a jury of nine.
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