Ex-sheriff, facing life for rapes, pleads guilty to bribery
Associated PressNEW ORLEANS — A former Louisiana sheriff pleaded guilty to a federal bribery charge on Wednesday, weeks after a state jury convicted him of sexually abusing boys. “Jack” Strain, who lost a reelection bid in 2015 after five terms as St. Tammany Parish’s sheriff, appeared in court in shackles and an orange prison jumpsuit, news outlets reported. Loyola Law Professor Dane Ciolino told WWL-TV that he wasn’t surprised by the plea agreement, since Strain faces mandatory life sentences in the state case. Court documents in one deputy’s plea agreement said he had been a child sex victim of Strain’s, starting before he was 12 years old, The Times-Picayune / The New Orleans Advocate reported. Strain’s statement said the plotters also brought in a third person who had the credentials the deputies’ children lacked and actually ran the program.
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