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HIV Chaplain Admits To Sex

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: December 6, 2007

WASHINGTON - A Navy chaplain who is HIV-positive is expected to plead guilty today to charges that he used his positions at the U.S. Naval Academy and Marine Corps Base Quantico to lure midshipmen and Marines into sex acts, according to military officials and sources familiar with the case.

Marine Corps officials announced Wednesday that Lt. Cmdr. John Thomas Matthew Lee, 42, who is a Catholic priest, is scheduled to face a court-martial at Quantico, Va., on charges that stem from several incidents from 2003 to 2007. The charges include consensual and forcible sodomy for allegedly having sex with several men, indecent acts for allegedly posing for nude photographs, aggravated assault for not informing an alleged victim of his HIV status, and conduct unbecoming an officer.

It is unclear whether any of the men has been infected with HIV. Prosecutors contend, however, that Lee, knowing he had tested positive for the virus in 2005, had sex with an Air Force lieutenant colonel last December and exposed him to the virus without telling him about his HIV status.

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