Navy Chaplain Gets Two Years for Sex Crime
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QUANTICO, Va. — An HIV-positive Navy chaplain was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison after pleading guilty to forcible sodomy and other charges.
Lieutenant Commander John Thomas Lee, 42, of Burke, Va., was sentenced after entering a plea agreement at his court-martial at the Quantico Marine Corps Base in northern Virginia.
Lee acknowledged having sex with an Air Force officer without disclosing that he had HIV and forcing himself on a U.S. Naval Academy midshipman.
A Marine spokesman, Major Tim Keefe, said after yesterday’s hearing that nobody is known to have contracted HIV virus from Lee.
