The wave of sexual assaults and harassment that the high command has described as a "crisis" for the military has now reached into the Chaplains Corps.
At Fort Bliss, Tex., last week, Maj. Geoffrey Alleyne, a chaplain and 24-year Army veteran, was sentenced by a court-martial jury to six months in jail for repeatedly groping a civilian employee at the West Texas base.
Following the conviction and sentencing the victim in the case went public to charge that her long-standing complaints about Alleyne were initially ignored by base officials and other chaplains.
Earlier this month lawmakers from both parties in both houses of Congress offered bills that would have transferred a commander’s authority to convene courts martial and refer charges in sexual assault cases to military prosecutors in the Judge Advocate Generals corps. Military education programs are just not enough at this point.
