NEW HAMPSHIRE
New Hampshire Union Leader
By DALE VINCENT
New Hampshire Union Leader
CONCORD — During his cross-examination of an alleged rape victim Thursday, defense attorney J.W. Carney focused on what he said the girl didn’t do.
“You didn’t tell Owen you were scared,” he said of his client, former St. Paul School student Owen Labrie, now 19.
The 16-year-old who says Labrie sexually assaulted her two days before graduation last year has testified that she told Labrie “no” three times, but he continued the assault.
The alleged victim was a freshman at St. Paul’s School when she accepted a traditional “Senior Salute” from Labrie, then 18, an athlete headed for Harvard and later divinity school. The girl said her expectation was that there would be kissing and “making out,” but that Labrie’s actions went way beyond that and were unwelcome
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