"He'd like to thank the friends and family that have stood by him and supported him all these years." "He will be settling in and working on rebuilding his life," their statement said. An attorney for Labrie told ABC News he was "happy to be home" with family. "The only way we will ever truly change rape culture is by holding perpetrators and the institutions that are complicit to these crimes responsible."Īlthough Labrie was expected to serve out the remaining 10 months of his 1-year jail sentence, he was released Monday morning for good behavior. "Today's decision is important because it shows survivors that people are listening, even if it takes several years for a single case to be resolved," she said. In a statement released shortly after the order was issued, Prout had hailed the judge's order as an important step toward changing rape culture. Roughly three years later, a local judge ordered Labrie, now 23, to report to Merrimack County's jail the day after Christmas after denying the former prep school graduate's request for a shorter sentence, NBC News reported. The last charge required him to register as a sex offender, the outlet reported. Labrie, who was 18 at the time of the alleged incident, was instead convicted of three counts of misdemeanor sexual assault, one count of endangering the welfare of a child, and one count of using a computer to lure a minor for sex, according to NBC News. It ended with a jury that was composed of nine men and three women acquitting Labrie on a forcible felony rape charge, The Cut reported.
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Labrie's 2015 trial had spurred significant public interest as it raised numerous questions about the culture of sexual assault on school campuses. I hope that schools, institutions and communities will hold perpetrators accountable for their crimes so that victims and survivors can continue to live their lives and truly thrive."
"I will continue to fight for the rights of survivors so that we can live without fear of retribution for pursuing justice. "Every survivors' story is different but we all have a lifetime of healing ahead of us," Chessy Prout tells Bustle in a statement provided by her spokesperson. Prout, who made her identity public in 2016, tells Bustle she plans to continue to fight for survivors' rights so they can pursue justice without fear of retribution. In 2015, Labrie was convicted of sexually assaulting then-15-year-old classmate Chessy Prout as part of an alleged competition among senior boys at the co-ed boarding school St. After serving six months of a 10-month sentence, New Hampshire prep school graduate Owen Labrie was released from jail for good behavior on Monday, according to the Associated Press.
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