Jury selection continues on the second day of former St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain's trial.
Strain faces four counts of aggravated rape, two counts of incest, one count of indecent behavior with a juvenile, and one count of sexual battery.
During the first day of jury selection, WWLTV reports attorneys asked jurors their opinion of the parish’s law enforcement on a scale of one to ten. They were asked to rate the agency on a scale of one to ten, most jurors rated the STPSO between 7 and 8 but one rated them a 5 or 6 saying "we wouldn’t be here if they were a 10,” as WWLTV’s Erika Ferrando reports.
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A member with Concerned Citizens of St. Tammany, in court observing the trial, predicts the next two weeks would "probably be the most disturbing testimony the people of St. Tammany Parish have heard in a very long time."
Strain pleaded not guilty to the charges, some of which date back to 1975 when Strain was a teenager. Other charges stem from alleged incidents in the early 2000s when Strain was sheriff.