NEW HAMPSHIRE
Union Leader
By JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
EXETER – A student at Phillips Exeter Academy is due in court next month to face a sexual assault charge alleging he fondled a female student in the latest case of sexual misconduct that reportedly was brought to the attention of police only recently.
Chukwudi Ikpeazu, 18, of Parkland, Fla., is charged with misdemeanor sexual assault and is free on $5,000 personal recognizance bail following his arrest in early June.
The student track athlete is accused of fondling a then-17-year-old student’s breasts against her will in the basement of the prep school’s church known as Phillips Church on Front Street. …
The Boston Globe reported Wednesday that the alleged victim initially didn’t report the incident to police and instead agreed to a proposal by the school’s minister, the Rev. Robert Thompson, to meet with Ikpeazu at the church to resolve the allegation.
According to a story published in Wednesday’s Globe, the minister urged Ikpeazu to agree to an “act of penance” that involved baking bread for the teen for the remainder of the school year. – See more at: http://www.unionleader.com/crime/phillips-exeter-academy-student-charged-with-sexual-assault-school-minister-had-him-bake-bread-for-victim-20160713#sthash.TYxTl60b.dpuf
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