
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, March 29, 1991                   TAG: 9103290706
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-4   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WILLIAMSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

AIDE AT STATE HOSPITAL GUILTY OF SEX ABUSE

An Eastern State Hospital aide charged with two counts of aggravated sexual battery pleaded guilty to lesser charges and was sentenced to two years in prison in District Court.

Jaime R. Howell, 32, of Hampton was found guilty Thursday of two counts of sexual battery, a misdemeanor, instead of the two felonies. He was sentenced to one year for each count, with eight months suspended from each.

Police charged Howell with having sex with a patient in October and another patient in January in the mental hospital building where he worked.

Both patients are adults and allegedly consented to have sex with Howell, according to James City police. But state law prohibits anyone from having sex with anyone who is mentally incapacitated.

by CNB