An Army major has been convicted by a military jury of raping and sexually assaulting eight victims out of 15 who came forward in the trial.
Major Jonathan Batt was found guilty on Monday of two specifications of rape, five specifications of sexual assault, two specifications of aggravated assault by strangulation, seven specifications of assault consummated by a battery and one specification of obstructing justice, according to the news outlet Stars and Stripes.
The jury consisted of four colonels and four lieutenant colonels.
Batt, 40, who was previously assigned to the Defense Department’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, in Arlington, Va., will be sentenced by the military judge, after arguments for potential sentences are made by prosecutors and the soldier’s defense attorneys starting Tuesday at Fort Meade, Md.
The rape convictions include a potential penalty of a life sentence.
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Author: Faith Novak
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