DELAWARE
The News Journal
Jessica Masulli Reyes , The News Journal Feb. 8, 2017
A former U.S. Navy chaplain and Catholic priest from Millsboro has been sentenced to 30 years in prison and lifetime supervision for taking pornographic pictures of a teen boy, according to U.S. Attorney Charles M. Oberly III of Delaware.
John Thomas Matthew Lee, 51, was sentenced by Judge Leonard P. Stark in U.S. District Court in Delaware on Wednesday afternoon.
Lee, a registered sex offender in Delaware, already served two years in prison after he was court-martialed in 2007 on allegations that he used his position as a Catholic priest in the Navy to prey on lower-ranking servicemen and failed to tell a sex partner he was HIV-positive.
The investigation into Lee’s current case began in 2013 when the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children got a cybertip indicating Lee’s cellphone had attempted to upload an image of three naked boys lying on a bed, according to court documents.
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