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BRIDGEWATER, N.S. – A Halifax man accused of sexual assault testified in his own defence today, telling the court the alleged teen victim didn’t seem upset and wasn’t chained.
Sixty-four-year-old John Leonard MacKean is also charged with communicating for the purpose of obtaining sexual services from a person under 18 and has pleaded not guilty to both charges.
The 17-year-old youth testified in the province’s Supreme Court in Bridgewater on Tuesday that he was crying, wearing a blindfold and was chained to a bed during the incident on Sept. 20, 2012.
He also testified he had been abducted by two other men and kept in a cabin about 130 kilometres southwest of Halifax for eight days.
MacKean told the jury he had been told the youth was in his 20s and he couldn’t see his face because of a sleeping mask the boy was wearing.
He said if he had seen chains and the youth had indicated he was distressed, he would have made sure he was released.
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