Posted on 12/06/2007 6:41:26 PM PST by familyop
QUANTICO, Va., Dec. 6 (UPI) -- An HIV-infected U.S. Navy chaplain who pleaded guilty to forcible sodomy was sentenced Thursday to serve two years in a military prison.
Lt. Cmdr. John Thomas Lee, 42, of Burke, Va., accepted a plea agreement with prosecutors that suspended 10 years of a 12-year sentence, dismissed him from the Navy and required him to forfeit future pay and benefits, the Baltimore Sun reported.
Lee, a Roman Catholic priest, admitted forcing himself on a gay Naval Academy midshipman whom he counseled and to having sex with an Air Force officer without disclosing he was HIV-positive.
During his court martial at the Quantico Marine Corps base, Lee said he had known he was infected with the HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, since at least 2005, but said he used a condom.
Prosecutors had sought a 15-year sentence for Lee, who was ordained as a priest in 1993 and began serving as a military chaplain in 1996. He had been charged with aggravated assault, indecent assault, fraternization, forcible and consensual sodomy, and conduct unbecoming an officer.
Lee could have been sentenced to life in prison if found guilty of the forcible sodomy charge alone if there were no plea agreement.
Civilian prosecution should be brought promptly. Nasty degenerate, not a care for the life of those he was endangering physically and spiritually! Don’t ask don’t tell? Hah, this demon needs to be told.
Terrific!
Just when I am conflicted about re-joining my faith again.
Two year for what amounts to attempted murder? Give him the whole 12 years.
Has this guy been excommunicated?
Damned pedophile priests!
I forgot, is sodomy Monica Lewinsky or Barney Frank?
The article said he could have gotten life, and that’s what he deserves.
It’s a shame, but the only answer seems to be extermination.
Depends on which jurisdiction.
I am beginning to yearn for the days before the internet. This would have been a local issue and I wouldn’t even have to know about it. And he probably would have received the full sentence.
“Just when I am conflicted about re-joining my faith again.”
What has John Thomas Lee to do with your faith? You either accept or reject it. The Catholic faith has been besmirched by its members for centuries, but it has not changed its teachings. John Thomas Lee DOES NOT represent the Church.
In all fairness, don’t only look at JTL but also at the goodness of the many saints and martyrs that have represented the church and are still doing it today. Get rid of your tunnel vision. For every JTL there are many members of very good will.
Two years is a travesty sentence for this crime. He should of, at the absolute least, gotten the 12 years. He deserves life at hard labor at Leavenworth.
Two years is a travesty sentence for this crime. He should of, at the absolute least, gotten the 12 years. He deserves life at hard labor at Leavenworth.
... which appears to be correct.
... and that’s what he deserves.
Agreed.
Have the two other men been tested for HIV?
If LCDR Limpwrist is HIV-positive, two years might just turn out ot BE a life sentence.
He is not a pedophile.
Pedophiles prey upon minor children. Chaplain Rumprider had adults as lovers.
He is a homosexual.
That’s what the Drive-bys don’t want people to know: they’re homosexuals. I will never use the “G” word to describe these monsters.
And we should have gays, bi’s, transsexuals, ect in the military, or at least have a committee tell the President what to do, according to a famously smart GOP candidate.
Sounds like you don’t know about the teachings of Saint Francis de Sales or much of anything about your “faith” for that matter.
My sarcastic point exactly.
Someone better look into the prosecutor who apparently offered up this gift plea bargain. Was there a guilty verdict and THEN a plea deal? Can’t understand this one.
I hear you. The house cleaning has not been thorough enough yet.
All of the above. The Georgia statute defined sodomy as "a sexual act involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another." I believe most state laws had a similar definition.
Laws against consensual sodomy were struck down in 2004, and were seldom enforced before then. The laws against forcible sodomy, or aggravated sodomy as it's called in many jurisdictions, still stand. The difference between consensual and forcible sodomy is like the difference between fornication and rape.
Also known as HOMOSEXUAL RAPE.
Right?
Homos do not produce they recruit
IMHO, they could bring back burning at the stake for this pervert.I’m sure he would feel right at home in the fire.
Oh, yeah. Letting homosexuals into the military is a terrific idea! /sarc
Now I think the church needs to mind its own house before casting stones....
No comment from Hillary’s gay general that masqueraded as an “uncommitted Republican” at the CNN Debate...
Can always count on folks on these Catholic threads to be judgemental as opposed to encouraging in their Christianity. One of the many reasons I am conflicted. It’s all about absolutes.
The most crucial issue in allowing homosexuals into the military is at the intersection of morale and infection.
The walking blood supply is that blood you get from the buddy in your unit when the bagged supply is unavailable or runs out of your type.
If your buddy is gay, do you want his? If you’re wounded, do you want him working on you? If he’s wounded, do you want to work on him?
They say, “but don’t you screen for Hiv?” Sure. Once every 2 years or so, but even if they did it the week before deployment, gays are notoriously promiscuous and find a way to connect with someone or something somewhere. So far as HIV is concerned, it is virulent and transmissible within a few short weeks. So, screen today, clean today, but dirty in 2 weeks.
And we haven’t mentioned that there’s no screening for other blood-bourne pathogens such as hepatitis, a disease that is also epidemic in the gay community.
So, if you can save his life with your blood, and he can’t save yours with his, what effect will that have on morale?
And if every application of first aid with a bleeding wound is something terrifying, what effect will that have on morale?
The gay general at the Republican so-called debate was a shill for those who don’t care if they kill people.
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