NEW HAMPSHIRE
Boston.com
By Allison Manning @allymanning
Boston.com Staff | 08.18.15
Opening statements are scheduled to begin Tuesday in the trial of a New England prep school graduate who is accused of raping a 15-year-old classmate as part of the “Senior Salute,” an alleged tradition of sexual conquest at the school.
Owen Labrie, 19, is accused of raping a female student at St. Paul’s School in May 2014. He has pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of sexual assault.
Prosecutors say the assault was part of a ritual called the “Senior Salute,” in which senior boys kept a tally of how many female classmates they could have sex with before graduation.
Opening statements will begin this morning after the jury visits the Lindsay Center, the location on the school’s campus where the assault allegedly occurred.
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