Portsmouth Herald
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Changes to New Hampshire state laws on sexual assault take effect in the new year.
Starting Jan. 1, the definition of sexual assault will be expanded to include any sexual contact between school employees and students between ages 13 and 18. The legislation was aimed at closing a loophole in state law that advocates argued enabled a Concord High School teacher accused of abuse.
Primo "Howie" Leung was charged in 2019 with sexually assaulting a student off school property in Massachusetts in 2015 and 2016. But school officials did not report him to police after he was seen kissing a different student in 2018 because state law allowed teenagers 16 and older to consent to such contact if they were not being coerced.