Military chaplains get in more trouble, report says.The Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. reported in July that previously undisclosed military documents reveal that Navy chaplains draw far more misconduct charges than other military officers. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the documents, more than 42 chaplains over the past decade have been punished for offenses, including spousal assault and sexual harassment sexual harassment, in law, verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature, aimed at a particular person or group of people, especially in the workplace or in academic or other institutional settings, that is actionable, as in tort or under equal-opportunity statutes. . A 1999 memo from an official for the Navy Chaplain Corps stated, "Navy chaplains, in fact, create a disproportionate number of problem cases." Then-Navy Secretary Richard Danzig ordered new training and oversight of the chaplains. Lt. Jon Spiers, a chaplain spokesman, told the AP that the Chaplain Corps no longer monitors punished chaplains. Spiers would only acknowledge one case mentioned in the documents involving Neal Destefano, who was convicted and sentenced to prison for drugging and molesting two Marines. The military documents state that 28 of the 42 chaplains were punished for sexual misconduct sexual misconduct Professional ethics Any behavior that violates a health professional's ethics through sexual contact of physician and his/her Pt. See Professional boundaries. or harassment. |
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