Owen Labrie In Jail After Concord School Sex Assault

BOSCAWEN, NH — A former Concord student on Wednesday started serving a 10-month jail sentence for sexually assaulting a classmate during a "Senior Salute" ritual. Owen Labrie, 23, was found guilty of sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child after a 2014 sexual encounter with a 15-year-old freshman girl when he was an 18-year-old senior at St. Paul's School. Labrie is serving his sentence at the Merrimack County Jail in Boscawen.

The "Senior Salute" ritual involved upperclassmen targeting younger students for sex and bragging rights, prosecutors said. Labrie had a list of more than a dozen girls he wanted to "slay" and targeted the 15-year-old girl with a series of electronic messages, prosecutors said. The girl said in court Labrie pressured her to have sex and she later felt "violated in so many ways." Labrie denied they had sex. A jury acquitted him of rape.

Labrie was captain of the soccer team, rowed, had a radio show and worked at the school newspaper. He earned a full scholarship to Harvard University but the school pulled the offer after his arrest. Labrie then moved to Vermont.

The victim's father issued a statement to The Associated Press: "Today, the perpetrator who sexually assaulted our then 15-year-old daughter will finally be held accountable for his crime and sent to jail to serve his sentence. To date, he has shown no remorse nor accepted any responsibility for his actions. We hope he never sexually assaults another person in the future."

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Photo: Owen Labrie appears in Merrimack County Superior Court Dec. 18, 2018, as a judge upheld his jail sentence. (Credit: Geoff Forester/The Concord Monitor via Associated Press, Pool)