Prosecutors said the younger man suffered several knife wounds to his groin area. McClain also allegedly urinated on the victims and sodomized the man with a knife, prosecutors said.
A former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy is scheduled to go on trial Monday on charges he tortured, beat and sexually assaulted his wife and another man he believed to be her lover, leaving the man brain damaged, and mutilating both for life, prosecutors said.
Robert A. McClain’s trial is slated to begin Monday in a Santa Ana courtroom more than three years after he is accused of tricking his wife into introducing him to the man. He then held the couple captive overnight at an Irvine apartment complex, where he beat them, forced them to undress at knife point and ordered the woman to castrate her younger suitor, according to prosecutors.
McClain, 38, in 2008 was a sworn deputy when he allegedly sodomized his wife and chopped off her hair with the knife, prosecutors said. The ex-Marine faces potential multiple life sentences if convicted of the mayhem, torture, kidnapping and sexual assault charges.
With McClain having entered pleas of “not guilty” and “not guilty by reason of insanity,” the trial will be held in two phases. During the initial phase jurors will hear evidence about the alleged crimes and the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty of those crimes.
If McClain is convicted, the case would go to the second phase, the sanity phase, in which the same jury considers evidence to determine if the defendant was legally sane at the time of the crime.
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