Jury selected in New Hampshire prep school rape trial

NEW HAMPSHIRE
WCVB

CONCORD, N.H. —A jury was selected Monday in the trial of a prep school senior charged with raping a 15-year-old freshman as part of a school tradition known as the “Senior Salute,” days before he graduated.

Owen Labrie, now 19, of Tunbridge, Vermont, has pleaded not guilty to multiple felony charges, including forcible rape.

Prosecutors said Labrie raped the girl in a building on the Concord campus of St. Paul’s School on May 30, 2014. …

Founded in 1856, St. Paul’s is an Episcopal school that counts among its alumni senators, congressmen, Pulitzer Prize winners, a Nobel laureate and Secretary of State John Kerry.

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