According to police documents, he also told police he did not have intercourse with the girl. “I thought, ‘I’m at St. Paul’s right now, this is graduation weekend, I can not be dramatic about this, ‘” she said in the courtroom yesterday. She says it shows that the well-educated and privileged don’t discuss sexual crimes and don’t understand the consequences of their behavior.
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Under cross examination in a Concord, N.H. courtroom, a 16-year-old girl sobbed as she said, “I was raped”.
Laura Dunn, the founder of the nonprofit SurvJustice, which assists people pursuing campus rape complaints, says she stepped in to assist the teen girl and her family after broadcasts from the first day of trial – and some social media posts – named her or used her voice without distorting it. Most news outlets have since cooperated with her requests to remove such identifiers.
On the stand, the girl said she agreed to meet Labrie and accompany him to a machine room.
That last part will resonate with a lot of us, because if you’re a girl, being torn between standing up for yourself and not wanting to be rude is an nearly universal experience.
Labrie, 19, is also expected to testify during the trial, held a short distance from the St. Paul’s campus.
Carney said email exchanges between the two prove that their encounter was consensual.
The defense attorney asked her, “Were you excited to have his attention?”
“I didn’t know what else I could do”, she said.
The hospital nurse also told the court she found a “superficial” abrasion on the girl’s body, but the nurse would not speculate as to its origins.
Carney sought to point out discrepancies between her testimony and what she told police days after the attack. The classmate said the girl had told her she would allow certain sex acts.
“No, it does not”, she said. The alleged victim will continue her testimony on Wednesday. He has made occasional notes in the pad throughout the proceedings, and his lawyer says he is “adamant” about testifying later in the trial.
The case has cast a critical light on St. Paul’s School – one of eight members of a prep school Ivy League of sorts – that boasts as alumni an worldwide roster of senators, congressmen, ambassadors, Pulitzer Prize winners, Nobel laureates and two World Series of Poker winners.
A rape trial linked to an unsettling ritual at an exclusive New England prep school marched grimly into its third day Thursday with the teen accuser facing intense scrutiny from the lawyer representing the teen defendant. He said bailiffs would confiscate the equipment of anyone who violated that rule.
“What about when he was taking your trousers off?” said the attorney. I didnt want to believe this was happening to me..
But while testimony Thursday focused on various gritty details of the girl’s account, moments of raw emotion were not far from the surface. She described how when her daughter finally called her late at night to tell her what had happened, she was hysterical. DNA evidence matched the defendant, she said.
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“I didn’t”, she replied through tears.
