Sex offender registry questioned after New Hampshire prep school grad convicted of sex crimes
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A New Hampshire prep school graduate convicted of having sexual contact with a 15-year-old classmate as part of a game of sexual conquest must register as a sex offender for life, a punishment his lawyer likens to being branded.
Legal experts and reform advocates say the punishment exceeds the crime.
Nineteen-year-old Owen Labrie was convicted Friday following a two-week trial that exposed a practice at St. Paul's School in Concord known as Senior Salute, in which graduating students try to have sex with younger classmates.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Tunbridge, Vermont, resident faces up to 11 years in prison. He can ask the court to take him off the registry 15 years after he finishes his sentence.
A victims' advocate says Labrie is a sexual predator who belongs on the registry.