Navy chaplain gets 2 years for sex crime
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
QUANTICO, Va. -- An HIV-positive Navy chaplain was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison after pleading guilty to forcible sodomy and other charges.
Lt. Cmdr. John Thomas Lee, 41, of Burke, Va., was sentenced after entering a plea agreement at his court-martial at the Quantico Marine Corps Base in northern Virginia. Lee admitted having sex with an Air Force officer without disclosing that he had HIV and forcing himself on a U.S. Naval Academy midshipman.
Lee, a Catholic priest, was assigned to the academy from 2003 to 2006 and later to Quantico. He was ordained as a priest in 1993 and began serving as a military chaplain in 1996.
In addition to sodomy, Lee was charged with conduct unbecoming a military officer, aggravated assault and indecent assault and fraternization
