Case Name: UNITED STATES v. James C. BELL, [ XXX XX XXXX ], Staff Sergeant (E-6), U.S. Marine Corps
Court: United States Navy-Marine Corps Court of Military Review
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1989-06-26
Citations: 28 M.J. 1062
Docket Number: NMCM 89 1067
Parties: UNITED STATES v. James C. BELL, [ XXX XX XXXX ], Staff Sergeant (E-6), U.S. Marine Corps.
Judges: Before BYRNE, Chief Judge, and ALBERTSON and JONES, JJ.
Reporter: West's Military Justice Reporter
Volume: 28
Pages: 1062–1067

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES v. James C. BELL, [ XXX XX XXXX ], Staff Sergeant (E-6), U.S. Marine Corps.
NMCM 89 1067.
U.S. Navy-Marine Corps Court of Military Review.
Sentence Adjudged 17 Nov. 1988.
Decided 26 June 1989.
LT Wade W. Parrish, JAGC, USNR, Appellate Defense Counsel.
CAPT Wendell A. Kjos, JAGC, USN, Appellate Government Counsel.
Before BYRNE, Chief Judge, and ALBERTSON and JONES, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
The findings of guilty as approved on review below are affirmed.
Based upon appellant's voluntary self-referral to the Family Services Center, subsequent counseling and treatment through civilian sources at his own expense, and in light of other child sexual abuse cases we have reviewed, we find a dishonorable discharge to be an inappropriate punishment in this case. Accordingly, only so much of the sentence as provides for three years confinement, as suspended in part by the convening authority, reduction to pay grade E-l, and a bad-conduct discharge is affirmed.