Air Force officer's sexual assault sentence called lenient

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 11:35 am, Sunday, February 26, 2017



SAN ANTONIO (AP) — An Air Force noncommissioned officer convicted of misconduct with eight women, including three who accused him of sexually assaulting them, was sentenced to three months confinement and another month of hard labor, a punishment a victims' rights advocate called "shockingly light."

Tech. Sgt. Anthony Lizana, 35, also was reduced in rank to airman first class and was given a dishonorable discharge Saturday night at his trial at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.

The San Antonio Express-News reports (http://bit.ly/2lddvem ) the jury of two officers and five senior noncommissioned officers could have sentenced Lizana to nearly 38 years in prison for his conviction on four charges and eight specifications of misconduct that included dereliction, adultery, assault consummated by battery and sexual assault.

Military prosecutors originally lodged seven charges and 17 specifications of misconduct against him. Conviction on all those charges could have resulted in more than 87 years in prison.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Air-Force-sergeant-convicted-of-misconduct-with-8-10960459.php

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[Submariner]

1. There was a time when a Dishonorable Discharge would follow you forever

and ruin chances for getting a good job. I don't know if Human Resources departments in companies check that stuff out, but if they do, he is screwed from being professionally successful.

Other than that, he did get off real light (3 months is an insult to the women) and it shows how the military men's club takes care of their own where they can.

[malthaussen]

2. "Lenient" is one word for it.

Most of the others are too vulgar to share on a family board.

-- Mal