An elite boarding school had a student track star bake bread as an apology to a 17-year-old girl he allegedly sexually assaulted in a church basement instead of reporting the incident to the police.
Michaella Henry, a student at the prestigious, $48,550-a-year Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, told school officials that Chukwudi 'Chudi' Ikpeazu groped her.
She claimed last October that Ikpeazu, a 6ft 8ins athlete for the school, slipped his hands inside her shirt and squeezed her breast and bottom despite her repeatedly saying 'no'.
After two months of panic attacks, Michaella - who spoke to the
Boston Globe - agreed to meet with Ikpeazu and the school's minister Reverend Robert Thompson.
During the meeting inside the campus church where she claims she was assaulted, Ikpeazu is said to have admitted what he had done was wrong.
Astonishingly, instead of reporting this to the police, Rev Thompson urged Ikpeazu to bake bread and deliver it to Michaella every week as an act of 'penance'.
The reverend praised Michaella, telling her she 'did a great service for Chudi, because you gave him an opportunity to express his regret and to take responsibility for what he had done'.
Michaella said the weekly deliveries made life harder for her as she had to relive her alleged assault every time he dropped off the bread.
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