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BRIDGEWATER, N.S. – A teenager testified Tuesday that he was blindfolded and his hands and feet were chained to a bed when he was sexually assaulted by a man at a remote cabin in rural Nova Scotia.
The boy is testifying at the jury trial of John Leonard MacKean, who has pleaded not guilty to sexual assault and communicating for the purpose of obtaining sexual services from a person under 18.
During the trial before the province’s Supreme Court in Bridgewater, the boy identified a small black sleeping mask and a blanket with wolves on it as items that were at the scene where he says he was sexually assaulted.
His identity is protected by a publication ban.
Earlier Tuesday, Crown prosecutor Lloyd Tancock said in his opening statement that he will introduce DNA evidence along with text messages between the accused and one of the men who kept the youth confined in a cabin in Lunenburg County, about 130 kilometres southwest of Halifax.
The 64-year-old MacKean was arrested in November 2012 at a Fredericton hotel and released on bail.
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