Newspaper: Student Accused Of Sexual Assault Baked Accuser Bread As Penance

**ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 23** Nutraloaf, a product from the cafeteria of the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility, is presented by an inmate in South Burlington, Vt., on Friday, March 21, 2008. Nutraloaf is m... **ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 23** Nutraloaf, a product from the cafeteria of the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility, is presented by an inmate in South Burlington, Vt., on Friday, March 21, 2008. Nutraloaf is made of whole wheat bread, non-dairy cheese, raw carrots, spinach, seedless raisins, beans, vegetable oil, tomato paste, powdered milk and dehydrated potato flakes. To prison officials, it's a complete meal. To inmates, it's a food so awful, they'd rather go hungry than eat it. (AP Photo/Andy Duback) MORE LESS
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EXETER, N.H. (AP) — A spokeswoman for a New Hampshire prep school says officials have “grave concern” about a sex-assault case that was resolved with a male student baking bread for his accuser as “penance.”

The 17-year-old Phillips Exeter Academy student had accused the classmate of groping her. The Boston Globe reported Wednesday that she told two deans about it in the fall, and then later met with a campus minister and the male student.

The Rev. Robert Thompson suggested the boy do “penance” by baking her bread and bringing it to her weekly, rather than going to police. The Globe reported the girl felt additional stress by seeing him every week, and went to police in May.

The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests has called for Thompson to be fired. He didn’t immediately return a phone message.

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