New Hampshire Moves To Revoke Owen Labrie's Bail Over Alleged Curfew Violation
BOSTON (CBS) -- The state of New Hampshire filed a motion Monday to revoke bail for Owen Labrie, a prep school student convicted last year of sexual assault, over what attorneys said is a violation of the conditions of his release.
Labrie was found guilty in 2014 of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl as part of a campus tradition at St. Paul's School in Concord, known as the "senior salute," in which seniors competed to see how many younger students they could have sex with.
Pending his appeal, Labrie was released on $15,000 bail and several additional conditions.
One of the conditions of Labrie's release stipulated that he stay at his mother's home in Tunbridge, Vermont, and adhere to a curfew from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. Attorneys for the state of New Hampshire say Labrie violated that curfew.
In a motion filed Monday, attorneys for the state said they were prompted to look into Labrie's travels by a series of tweets from Boston journalist Susan Zalkind, who bumped into and then interviewed Labrie on a Red Line train in Cambridge and later wrote an article about the encounter for VICE entitled "My Surreal Train Ride with One of New England's Most Notorious Sex Offenders."
The state alleges that Labrie travelled outside the parameters of his curfew at least eight times. The motion requests an expedited hearing, as well as the revoking of bail and detention of Labrie.
Labrie was ordered to register as a sex offender for life in November after he was found guilty of using a computer to lure the girl.