BRIDGEWATER, N.S. – A jury begins hearing evidence today in the trial of a Halifax man charged with sexual assault in the case of a teenaged boy.
Sixty-four-year-old John Leonard MacKean is also on trial in Bridgewater Supreme Court for communicating for the purpose of obtaining sexual services from a person under 18.
MacKean was arrested in November 2012 at a Fredericton hotel and released on bail.
Potential jurors were questioned yesterday in court on whether they had been affected by prior publicity in the case.
Last June, David James LeBlanc was sentenced in the case to 11 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges that included forcible confinement and sexual assault.
Court documents in LeBlanc’s case say the boy was taken to a cabin about 130 kilometres southwest of Halifax, where he was chained inside a bedroom and repeatedly sexually assaulted.
The boy later escaped and a woman reported seeing a barefoot teenager at her doorstep, chained at his wrists and ankles.
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