United States v. Arruza

OPINION OF THE COURT

WATKINS, Judge:

Appellant, a divorced officer with approximately fourteen years of active-duty service and assigned as a military chaplain in Europe, contrary to his pleas, was convicted by a general court-martial with members of taking indecent liberties with the body of a female under the age of sixteen years (two specifications) in viola*592tion of Article 134, Uniform Code of Military Justice [UCMJ], 10 U.S.C. § 934 (1982).1 The sentence, to dismissal from the service, confinement at hard labor for five years, and forfeiture of $2000.00 per month for sixty months, was…