St. Paul's School

Two months after a compliance monitor overseeing the handling of sexual abuse claims at St. Paul’s School resigned in protest, the school has agreed to hire an additional person to support his replacement and have an anti-sexual violence organization review its student safety programs. Jeffrey Maher resigned in October, accusing campus officials of thwarting his efforts. He had been...

A monitor appointed to oversee the handling of sexual abuse claims at St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire has resigned, accusing campus officials of thwarting his efforts. Jeffrey Maher was appointed as the school’s independent compliance overseer last year as part of an agreement with the attorney general’s office that subjected the school in Concord to up to five...

A New Hampshire prep school with a history of sexual abuse claims is removing the names of two former rectors from campus buildings. In a weekend letter to the school community, the board of trustees president at St. Paul’s School in Concord said the name of William Oates, rector from 1970 to 1982, will be removed from the performing arts...

A New Hampshire prep school marred by sexual misconduct allegations has released its first report on the frequency of such allegations, as required by state authorities. The report issued Wednesday by a compliance overseer at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire, summarizes sexual and physical misconduct allegations reported to the school during the first six months of 2019. An...

The new leader of an elite New England prep school acknowledges there’s work to be done to address decades of sexual abuse claims involving at least 20 former faculty members and administrators. Kathleen Carroll Giles started this week as the 14th rector at St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire. She has listened to abuse survivors and said that no book...

A New Hampshire prep school graduate convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old classmate has been released from jail. Twenty-three-year-old Owen Labrie reported to Merrimack County’s jail just after Christmas, after a judge refused to shorten his sentence. He had been due to serve the remaining 10 months of his sentence but was expected to be released Monday for good behavior.

A New Hampshire prep school graduate convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old classmate has been released from jail. Twenty-three-year-old Owen Labrie reported to Merrimack County’s jail just after Christmas, after a judge refused to shorten his sentence. He had been due to serve the remaining 10 months of his sentence but was expected to be released Monday for good behavior.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court denied a motion for a new trial for the prep school graduate charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old classmate. The decision was made Friday for Owen Labrie’s appeal of the trial judge’s order that denied his original motion. The Court affirmed the denial in a 3-0 decision.

A weekend service at a New Hampshire prep school rocked by revelations of sex abuse has aimed to confront the past and start the process of healing. “Alumni Doorways” organized Saturday’s event at the St. Paul’s School chapel in Concord. It was described as a service of “witness, lament and apology.”

A Virginia man has been accused of sexually assaulting two children on the campus of St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire in the 1970s while he was a student at the prep school and after he graduated. Sixty-one-year-old Benjamin Baker of Falls Church, Virginia, was arrested Monday and charged with being a fugitive after Concord police issued a warrant charging...

A graduate of St. Paul’s School arrested in Virginia is facing sexual assault charges in New Hampshire.

A New Hampshire prep school graduate convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old classmate has begun serving the remaining 10 months of his jail sentence. Twenty-three-year-old Owen Labrie reported to the Merrimack County jail on Wednesday morning, a little over a week after a judge refused to shorten his sentence.

A college safety director and former police officer has been named the new compliance overseer for St. Paul’s School, fulfilling an agreement with the New Hampshire attorney general’s office that had investigated sexual misconduct allegations at the prep school. Jeffrey Maher starts Feb. 4, 2019. He’s the director of campus safety at Keene State College and worked for the Nashua...

A judge declined Tuesday to shorten the jail term for an elite prep school graduate convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old classmate in 2015, saying he needed to consider the victim’s family, which wants him to serve the remaining 10 months of his sentence. Merrimack County Superior Court Judge Larry Smukler appeared unmoved by defense arguments that Owen Labrie, 23,...

A judge has refused to shorten the jail term for a New Hampshire prep school graduate convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old classmate in 2015, saying he has to report to jail for the remaining 10 months of his sentence the day after Christmas.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court denied the appeal of a prep school graduate who was convicted in 2015 of using a computer to lure a girl for sex and assaulting her. Owen Labrie, of Tunbridge, Vermont, was acquitted of raping the 15-year-old classmate at St. Paul’s School.

The parents of a girl who was sexually assaulted by a fellow student at a New Hampshire prep school have received approval to launch a new nonprofit aimed at high school sexual assault awareness.

New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald announced Monday that a woman has been charged in connection with her appearance before the grand jury investigating the St. Paul’s School.

A lawyer for a New Hampshire prep school graduate convicted in 2015 of sexually assaulting a classmate is arguing that his conviction for using a computer to lure the girl for sex should be tossed out because prosecutors failed to prove that was his intention.

New Hampshire’s highest court heard the second appeal from Owen Labrie, the former St. Paul’s School student, found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old classmate.