Victim in New England prep school rape trial 'traumatized'

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A teenager who says she was raped by a graduating senior at their elite New Hampshire prep school last year faced an unrelenting cross-examination by a defense attorney on Thursday, at times breaking down in tears. Labrie's trial has cast a light on what Labrie has described as the school tradition of a "senior salute," in which younger students agree to have sex with graduating seniors. Defense attorney J.W. Carney, a well-known Boston lawyer whose clients have included mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, questioned her repeatedly on inconsistencies between her testimony on Wednesday and what she had said in interviews with police shortly after the May 2014 incident.

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