“Does his registration as a sex offender continue?”
Yes.
“I respect the Prout family for the way they supported their daughter and sought justice. I doubt Chessy would have gotten through the nightmare as well as she did without a strong family behind her.”
Agreed.
If Labrie served his whole sentence, it would be only another 4 months. I doubt those 4 months would change his level of remorse much.
^^^ Noted and agreed about full sentence probably not making a difference. I think the “good behavior” terminology might be difficult and insulting phrasing for people to swallow.
Interesting that her father and sister attended the school, so you would think if there was a “senior salute” tradition, they would have known about it before sending Chessy there. But they still chose to send her.
^^^Are you seriously pointing a finger at her father and sister and suggesting that they are in some way at fault for sending Chessy to that school?? Wow, anything to avoid blaming the actual perpetrator, I guess. SMH
The whole “senior salute” thing has been misrepresented in the media. However, that does not preclude the fact that Labrie and a handful of his buddies were up to nefarious deeds and praying upon young girls in a sexual contest.
Good behavior is a term of art for the prison/jail term and doesn’t really reflect on crime. Only a few crimes, in a few states, are eligible for good behavior early release. Prisons are overcrowded and they need to release someone, so release those who aren’t troublemakers while in prison.
@Joblue , she settled with the school for an undisclosed amount. Some or all of her case must have been based on the accusation that there was a tradition that the school knew about, but did nothing to eliminate. So, it is a legitimate question as to why they sent her if they knew about this tradition.
Asking this question doesn’t preclude me from blaming the perp. He is clearly slime. But even the victim is blaming someone other than the perp.
@twoinanddone Yes, “good behavior” is a term of art, but the connotations of its everyday usage can elicit an emotional response.
@OhiBro the testimony at trial from one of the school administrators was that he became aware of the “tradition” in 2013. So it was a recent development - did not exist when the victim’s father attended or sister entered. And of course there were several statements to the media that it was not even a tradition - just gross behavior.
All that being said, your post put blame on the family for Owen Labrie’s crime and I find that deeply offensive.
I agree with @GnocchiB .
Our oldest son was bullied at a private school and we moved him out before the end of that school’s grade levels. The bullying was enabled, possibly encouraged, by a (homophobic) teacher on staff. Our second son had no problems at the same school, though he did not have that teacher.
When it was time for our youngest son, we noticed DS1’s problematic teacher had been moved to Kindergarten, but we assumed that our long-time family school had addressed the issues. Unfortunately, it was worse than ever with our youngest son under the supervision of the problematic teacher (enabled bullying).
When we took our youngest out for those reasons, should we have felt responsible for trying to work with the school again? Was it our youngest son’s fault that he was bullied? It’s possible that both (1) a school can be culpable and (2) a family can believe earnestly that the school has plans in place to fix its issues.
If someone said to me, “What did you expect? Interesting that you sent DS3 to that place after knowing what happened to DS1,” I would find that insensitive, to say the least. (And we don’t even know that Chessy’s sister had any problems at the school.) But I will admit that I’ve blamed myself for trusting the school again in my family’s case. Blaming oneself as a mother is a different business.
@GnocchiB , the defense said the tradition was decades old (CNN), and both sides cited a “culture of sex, entitlement and misogyny.” (NYT) Do you really think a 100+ year old institution develop this one year before the assault? ? I’m just asking questions. No reason to be offended.
@fretfulmother , I empathize with your situation, and would never fault you. But your situation is very different than this situation.
Of course the defense wanted to portray the “tradition” as decades old, to make Owen Labrie seem less guilty. I was referring to what the SPS administrator testified under oath.
And “just asking questions” does not camouflage what I perceive as your intent in victim-blaming.
The defense had tons of spin or downright lies. Honestly, although I favored the prosecution, they as well were prone to some hyperbole as well. It was an interesting case for me to follow, learning about tactics and how things unfold and the media, etc. Kind of eyeopening.
@GnocchiB , your point is well-taken. But I also know that accusing others of victim-blaming assures that there will be no learned lessons. Can you name any high profile rape case that has moved the ball as far as rape prevention? I can’t.
I never paid attention to this case, and don’t care to now. But why didn’t the slimeball get an automatic sentence for statutory rape? He was 18 and she was 15. Case closed. @doschicos ?
@OhiBro For someone who hasn’t followed the case and claims they don’t care to now, you seem to have some preformed, strong opinions on it.
Labrie WAS found guilty of statutory rape. They just don’t refer to it by that name in NH where the crime was committed.
Thanks for the explanation, @doschicos .
Any time I do get into the details, I find that these cases are all the same.
I’ll keep my mouth shut now.