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Navy doc gets no jail time for 23 alleged sexual assaults. What up with that?

Stars & Stripes reports that a Navy doctor, Lt. Cdr. Anthony Velasquez, who had been accused of molesting female patients, pleaded to some charges and was given a deal in which most of the charges were dropped — and he wound up not doing any time, and his fine was suspended. Somebody wearing Navy stars ...

By , a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy.
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Stars & Stripes reports that a Navy doctor, Lt. Cdr. Anthony Velasquez, who had been accused of molesting female patients, pleaded to some charges and was given a deal in which most of the charges were dropped -- and he wound up not doing any time, and his fine was suspended.

Stars & Stripes reports that a Navy doctor, Lt. Cdr. Anthony Velasquez, who had been accused of molesting female patients, pleaded to some charges and was given a deal in which most of the charges were dropped — and he wound up not doing any time, and his fine was suspended.

Somebody wearing Navy stars has some ‘splaining to do.

(HT to the IC)

Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1

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