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	Former Navy Chaplian Will Spend Two Years in Jail By Amanda Stewart Potomac News December 6, 2007 http://www.potomacnews.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WPN%2FMGArticle%2FWPN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173353761633&path= A former Navy chaplian pleaded guilty today to charges that include forcible sodomy, aggravated assault and conduct unbecoming an officer. Military officials said Lt. Cmdr. John Thomas Lee, 41, a Catholic priest, used his position as a chaplain at the U.S. Naval Academy and at the Quantico Marine Corps base to persuade male subordinates to perform sex acts with him and to take pornographic pictures of him. The aggravated assualt stemmed from allegations that Lee had consensual sex with an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, without telling him that he is HIV-positive. According to military law, the sex act can be forceable sodimy if one individual has a higher rank than the other. Thursday afternoon, a military judge sentenced Lee to serve twelve years in confinement, but according a pretrial agreement, Lee will only serve two years. Military officials said Lee would initially be confined at Quantico and corrections officials will determine where he will go after that. The judge also ordered Lee to be dismissed from the Navy and to foreit all payment and allowances he recieved from the Navy. As part of the pretrial agreement, Lee must also give military officials a list of the names and contact information for people he had sexual relations with after being diagnosed as HIV-positive in 2005. Lee served as a chaplin at Quantico for eight months, beginning in October 2006. He was relieved of his duties there in June when a corporal filed a complaint against him. A military investigation revealed allegations against Lee dating back to 2003.
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