Victim of prep school sex assault 'not afraid or ashamed'

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A teen who was sexually assaulted during a game of sexual conquest at a prestigious New Hampshire prep school said today she is no longer ashamed or afraid and hopes to be a voice for others.

Chessy Prout made her first public comments about the assault in an interview on NBC's "Today" show, telling what happened to her at St. Paul's School in 2014 when she was a 15-year-old freshman.

"It's been two years now since the whole ordeal, and I feel ready to stand up and own what happened to me and make sure other people – other girls and boys – don't need to be ashamed, either," said Prout, now 17 and about to start her senior year at a different school.

The Associated Press normally does not identify victims of sexual assault, but Prout has now spoken publicly about the case.

Former St. Paul's student Owen Labrie, of Tunbridge, Vt., was arrested in 2014, days after graduating from the Concord school. Prosecutors say he assaulted the girl as part of a competition known as the Senior Salute in which some seniors sought to have sex with underclassmen.

Jurors convicted Labrie last year of misdemeanor sex assault charges and a felony charge of using a computer to lure the student. They acquitted him on three counts of felony sexual assault.