Las Vegas Review Journal: Nellis major pleads guilty to assault after inappropriately touching airman
The Las Vegas Review Journal reports:
A military judge on Tuesday ordered a Nellis Air Force Base major to forfeit $3,678 in pay and allowances for one month after he pleaded guilty to two of three charges in what began as a sex abuse court-martial involving an enlisted man.
Maj. Charles Cox Jr., a nurse in the 99th Medical Operations Squadron at Nellis, had pleaded not guilty to all three charges when the trial began in October. The charges included a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice for touching the buttocks and anus of an airman “with intent to arouse or gratify his own sexual desire” while the man was asleep at an off-base house in Las Vegas on Aug. 4, 2012.
The judge, Lt. Col. Christopher Schumann, dismissed that charge at the request of the prosecutors after Cox agreed to plead guilty to assault for touching the 22-year-old airman’s back and buttocks with his hand. Cox, who was 42 at the time, also pleaded guilty to conduct unbecoming of an officer for being drunk and disorderly on Aug. 3, 2012, in the presence of enlisted airmen and making inappropriate comments to women in the Air Force.
