Navy officer John Alan Jones jailed over spanking scandal

A NAVAL officer found guilty of spanking a junior sailor will serve a maximum of 18 months in jail and be dismissed from the Navy.
John Alan Jones has also been demoted from Lieutenant Commander to Lieutenant effective immediately.

Jones was sentenced today, a day after a court martial found him guilty of seven indecent acts.

This included four occasions when he spanked a junior female sailor serving on the same ship.

The court martial also found him guilty of telling the sailor to take off her pants and then pulling down her underwear, making her lift up her top, and touching her bottom.