rapist Owen Labrie "a very good liar"

9-10-17  

 In sentencing Owen Labrie, Merrimack Superior Court Judge Larry Smukler (shown) told Labrie “you're a very good liar.”  (The case is presently in appeal in a higher court. -r)...Yet, where is the public apology from St. Paul’s School?  Or from Owen Labrie, his father and mother?  What about the very accomplished and successful members of St. Paul’s School board of trustees? https://www.huffingtonpost.com/ken-toltz/a-very-good-liar_b_11917582.html

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  Owen Labrie was a Harvard-bound student leader, a devout scholarship student and a role model, who also exchanged filthy, denigrating messages to his friends about the younger girls at his school, including about one particular 15-year-old girl.

But who Labrie was before May 30, 2014 doesn’t matter. What mattered to Judge Larry Smukler was what a jury convicted Labrie of: having sex with a girl too young to consent.

“I believe you’re neither the angel as portrayed by counsel … or the devil that is portrayed by the state,’’ Smukler said.  “I am sentencing you as a human being who has been convicted of five crimes."...“You did ‘deny until you die,’ ’’ Smukler said, repeating back Labrie’s own words to friends.  "In some ways you’re a very good liar."   https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2015/10/29/judge-says-labrie-neither-angel-nor-devil-but-still-guilty

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8-25-2016        The documents filed on Thursday paint a picture of an orchestrated effort by St. Paul’s Prep School, Concord, N.H., to distance the school from the charges against 18 year old Owen Labrie, charged with raping a 15 year old on campus, even as well-connected members of the school’s community rallied around him.  The school hired outside legal counsel and enlisted communications firms in Boston and New York and issued frequent statements seeking to distance the school from Labrie’s actions.

                                                -Owen Labrie and his lawyer

  At the same time, the family’s lawyers allege, a group of wealthy parents and alumni paid for Labrie’s legal defense.  “Prominent SPS parent” Joshua Abram, the cofounder and co-CEO of NeueHouse, a co-working space firm, sent an e-mail to parents and alumni seeking $100,000 to pay for Boston lawyer J.W. Carney Jr., who represented Whitey Bulger.

  “Jay has litigated--with great success--literally dozens of cases very similar to Owen’s involving every major university and high school in the Boston area,” wrote Abram, who noted that he was contributing $10,000 to the effort.  “We  hope that you will join the many other SPS families who feel that while the facts of this case can only be decided by a judge and jury,” Abram wrote, “we can be united in the bedrock principle that Owen has the right to his day in court with a proper defense.” 

  Meanwhile “no one at the school undertook the slightest effort to raise a penny for Labrie’s victim, whose family was forced to spend tens of thousands of dollars on counseling, travel and many other expenses related to the assault,” the victim’s lawyers wrote….

  It was St. Paul’s that sought to make the case to the media that the school bore no responsibility for Labrie’s actions, the victim’s lawyers allege, and even “enlisted former students and alumni to support Labrie and to attack J.D. and her family.”…“St. Paul’s Prep and its well-financed public-relations team has spared no expense in seeking to shield itself from any responsibility for a sexual assault,” the lawyers wrote.  https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/08/25/prominent-paul-parent-helped-pay-for-accused-rapist-defense/jCp5G2Xls6tPqk21JK7qAO/story.html

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