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In the case involving a Lower Sackville man who is charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy kidnapped and chained in a Lunenburg County cabin, the court has decided to hear the first witness on Tuesday morning. On Monday, almost the entire day was spent selecting a seven-woman, five-man jury to hear the case against 64-year-old John Leonard MacKean, who is also charged with communicating with Wayne Cunningham for the purpose of obtaining sexual services from the kidnapped boy in Upper Chelsea on Sept. 20, 2012.
Out of the two suspects accused of kidnapping and chaining the teenage boy, police found Cunningham dead outside the remote community of Longlac in northeastern Ontario, i.e. almost three-hour drive far from Thunder Bay, on Oct. 3, 2012, whereas David James LeBlanc was arrested from a nearby dirt road. Both suspected were on the run from police after the teenager escaped from the cabin. Consequently, LeBlanc was sentenced last summer to 11 years in jail for kidnapping, confinement, sexual assault, uttering death threats and breaching release conditions in the case involving the 16-year-old boy.
MacKean arrived at the justice centre on Monday morning with his daughter. The second-floor courtroom was completely filled with potential jurors, along with the hallway outside the courtroom. The selection process took quite which lead to many applicants passing the time by reading books and chatting. Crown attorney, Lloyd Tancock, and defence lawyer, Mike Taylor, had 12 challenges each as potential jurors were called.
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