NEW HAMPSHIRE
Portland Press Herald
BY LYNNE TUOHY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CONCORD, N.H. — A graduate of a New England prep school who was convicted of sexually assaulting a younger student was taken into custody Friday after acknowledging that he violated conditions of his bail agreement by missing curfew multiple times.
A judge in Merrimack County Superior Court said Owen Labrie would begin his one-year jail sentence immediately.
“You are unlikely to abide by any conditions,” Judge Larry Smukler said. “I don’t relax conditions because you can’t comply with them.”
Labrie, 20, was stoic as he was handcuffed and led from the courtroom. His mother appeared to sob quietly.
Labrie was arrested in 2014 days after graduating from St. Paul’s School, an elite prep school in Concord.
He was 18 at the time of the encounter in a near-deserted building on the St. Paul’s campus. Prosecutors linked the assault on a 15-year-old freshman to a competition at St. Paul’s known as the “Senior Salute” in which seniors seek to have sex with underclassmen.
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