Judge rejects defense argument that felony conviction of using computer to lure girl to sexual encounter was invalid as it doesn’t apply to high school classmatesA graduate of an elite unusual Hampshire prep school faces lifetime registration as a sex offender after a judge on Tuesday upheld his conviction for using a computer to lure an underage girl to a sexual encounter as part of a sordid game of conquest.
Owen Labrie,of Tunbridge, Vermont, and was convicted in August after a trial that exposed a practice among students at St Paul’s school known as “senior salute”,in which graduating students try to own sex with younger classmates.
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Source: theguardian.com