With her guilty plea, Cook, 58, admitted to driving drunk and leaving the scene after striking Thomas Palermo, a 41-year-old father of two young children, on Dec. 27. Cook had been sending text messages while she was driving, Assistant State's Attorney Kurt Bjorklund said, and did not return to the scene until 30 minutes later at the urging of a friend.

Her blood-alcohol content registered a .22 on a breath test, nearly three times the legal limit.

The nine-man, three-woman jury took less than two days to deliver its split verdict in the quick 10-day trial. Labrie, is to be sentenced on Oct. 29, pending a pre-sentencing review by the New Hampshire Department of Corrections. He was released on a $15,000 bond while awaiting that sentencing. Superior Court Judge Larry Smukler ordered the convicted teen to comply with a nightly 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. curfew. The prosecutor asked that his passport be surrendered.

"Your church went through a very difficult period of its history, and the faithful took courage and had the ability to respond to a great temptation. There are two models of the behavior of the Church and of
Christians. One involves obedience to the secular power and the powerful forces that have an impact on social development. The other model involves the ability to speak the truth and to remain faithful to the Christian message."

"In the spring of 1856 . . . a young schoolteacher arrived in a carriage at a large property of ponds and woods near Concord, New Hampshire, where a wealthy Boston physician had provided land to create a new school," the website's history page explains. "St. Paul's began that same day, as three boys received their first assignments, one of which was to go fishing. A love of the School's natural habitat has remained constant since those early days."