NEW HAMPSHIRE
Yahoo! News
By Ted Siefer
CONCORD, N.H. (Reuters) – Opening statements are expected on Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of raping a fellow student at one of the United States’ most prestigious preparatory schools.
The suspect, Owen Labrie, 19, of Tunbridge, Vermont, is charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old freshman girl days before he graduated in 2014 from St. Paul’s School.
The prep school counts among its graduates numerous prominent business and political leaders, including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
The trial is expected to shine a spotlight on the culture of the elite academy, founded in 1856. It is clustered on 2,000 wooded acres (810 hectares) in Concord, New Hampshire’s state capital.
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