A 42-year-old Navy chaplain has been sentenced for a range of sexual crimes committed at the Quantico Marine base and the Naval Academy. In one episode, Lt. Cmdr. John Thomas Matthew Lee forced oral sex on a 20-year-old midshipman. So much for moral superiority.

Lee, who is HIV-positive, had 10 years knocked off his sentence, but he’ll have to provide the names of his sexual partners over the last four years.

Washington Post:

The man, who was identified only by his initials, testified today that as he and Lee drank beer and scotch on a balcony, Lee began masturbating. Lee then unzipped the man’s pants and performed oral sex, the midshipman said. The man said he expressed discomfort, but Lee didn’t stop.

“I said I didn’t want it,” the man testified. Lee, he said, responded: “It’s alright, it’s alright.”

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