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Articles: Military Service: Women

Reserve colonel gets three years for sexual harassment

Michelle Tan, NewYork Times

March 16, 2006

An Army Reserve colonel was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison and dismissal from the Army for sexually harassing eight women junior in rank to him.

Col. Nikki McCarty, 59, also will be reprimanded and forfeit all pay and allowances.


McCarty, a corrections officer in civilian life, was commander of Task Force Medical Falcon at Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo, in 2005. Before deploying, he was commander of the 4206th U.S. Army Hospital in Chattanooga, Tenn.

McCarty was convicted of all 25 specifications against him by a seven-member panel of generals and colonels, according to information provided by Maj. Allen Hing, an Army public affairs officer in Kaiserslautern, Germany. McCarty had pleaded not guilty to the charges, which included charges of cruelty and maltreatment, indecent assault, assault and conduct unbecoming an officer.

McCarty’s victims ranged in rank from sergeant to lieutenant colonel.

The maximum punishment McCarty could have received was 51½ years confinement.

Because McCarty was convicted of sexual crimes, he also will have to register as a sex offender in accordance with United States code.

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