NEW HAMPSHIRE
NBC News
[with video]
by JON SCHUPPE
A girl who says she was raped at an elite New England prep school broke down on the witness stand Wednesday when her alleged attacker’s lawyer pointed out inconsistencies in how she described the circumstances surrounding her encounter with the older student.
The outburst happened as defense attorney Jay Carney pressed the 16-year-old girl on why some of her recollections at the trial differed from those she outlined in a police interview five days after the alleged May 2014 attack in a secluded room at the top of a campus building at the St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire.
The girl said her mind had been “cloudy” when she spoke to a detective.
“Why were you cloudy?” Carney asked.
“I was raped,” the girl said, crying suddenly. “I was violated in so many ways. Of course I was traumatized. I was cloudy because I was traumatized.”
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