Speed Reads
Owen Labrie, the graduate of an elite New Hampshire prep school, was sentenced on Thursday to a year in jail and three years probation for the sexual assault of a fellow student, The Associated Press reports. Labrie was convicted in August on five counts — one of which is a felony — relating to a sexual encounter he had in 2014 with an underage student at St. Paul's School in Concord.
The encounter, which Labrie maintained was consensual, exposed a school tradition called the "Senior Salute," in which upperclassmen aim to have sex with underclassmen. Labrie's lawyers plan to appeal the sentence.