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Owen Labrie, the 19-year-old student accused of raping a teenager girl at St. Paul’s School in Concord New Hampshire in May 2014, took the stand Wednesday to testify in his defense, claiming he and the girl never had sex.
The following account was live-tweeted by several reporters in the courtroom, including from the New York Times, NH1, and the Concord Monitor.
The teenage boy, who attended the elite prep school on a full scholarship, testified that while he and the girl were kissing, he had a moment of clarity and realized having sex with the girl “wouldn’t have been a good choice for me to make.”
Labrie had invited the girl to hang out as part of the Senior Salute – a tradition at St. Paul's School in which seniors invite underclassmen to hang out. While the girl initially declined his invite, she eventually changed her mind and agreed to go out with him.
After entering the math and science building, Labrie said the two began kissing up against a wall, and after a few minutes, put a blanket on the ground for them to sit on.
JW Carney, Labrie’s attorney, asked his client how he knew the girl wanted to get on the blanket.
“She helped me put It there. She kissed me some more. She was smiling,” he said adding that her hands were on his back pulling him closer to her as they kissed and that she lifted her hips so he could remove her pants. He said the girl was laughing and giggling the whole time.
“I thought she was having a great time,” he said.
There was a moment, when he was on top of her, that he thought they were going to have sex, so he grabbed a condom, he testified.
“I was standing over the blanket looking down at [her], and I thought to myself, ‘maybe we shouldn’t do this,’” he said. “It wouldn’t have been a good move to have sex with this girl.”
At that moment, he said he put his pants back on – without removing the condom – and left the building. On his way out, he said he reached in to his shorts to remove the condom, which he said had some premature ejaculation in it.
When he returned to his dorm room later that night, after attending a concert, he said younger boys were high-fiving him, saying they heard he had sex with her. Labrie said he hadn’t told anyone, and assumed the girl had told her friends.
The girl, who was 15 at the time of the alleged assault, left the courtroom in tears, before Labrie gave his version of events.
During her testimony last week, the girl said she giggled because she was uncomfortable.
“I didn’t know how to deal with it because I’ve never been in a situation like this,” she testified in court, while crying. “I’d never been touched in that way.”
She testified that she said “no” when Labrie tried to remove her underwear.
“I didn’t kick or scream or really push,” she said in court. “I didn’t. But I did say no. I said no three times.”
Labrie will continue his testimony Wednesday afternoon after lunch.
LINK: Former St. Paul’s Student Testifies That Owen Labrie “Told Me He Boned Her”
LINK: Teen Who Says She Was Raped At New Hampshire Prep School Was Worried About Coming Off As “Bitchy”
LINK: New Hampshire Rape Trial Calls Into Question Elite School’s Tradition Of Sexual Competition
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