Prep school grad accused of rape told police ‘divine inspiration’ stopped him from having sex

NEW HAMPSHIRE
Star Tribune

Associated Press AUGUST 25, 2015

CONCORD, N.H. — The attorney for a young man accused of raping a fellow student at an elite prep school in New Hampshire is questioning whether his client was fairly treated by police.

Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin testified Tuesday in the trial of 19-year-old Owen Labrie of Tunbridge, Vermont.

Labrie faces charges stemming from an encounter two days before he graduated from St. Paul’s School last year.

As she says in an affidavit, Curtin testified that Labrie told her he had a playful encounter with the then-15-year-old girl but stopped short of having sex after a moment of “divine inspiration.”

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