Kitsap Navy chief avoids long jail term in sex sting
PORT ORCHARD, Wash. -- A Navy chief caught in a sex sting was sentenced Monday to nine months in jail and will have to undergo three years of sex offender treatment after his release.
Edward E. Scott, 44, was arrested March 16 entering a Bremerton motel where an Internet chat had led him to expect he would have sex with 12-year-old twins and their mother. The "mother" was actually an undercover officer.
Prosecutors had asked for Scott to be sentenced to seven years in prison, but the Judge Leonard Costello chose to sentence him under the state's special sex offender sentencing alternative.
At the time of his arrest the command master chief was the top enlisted man for Naval Base Kitsap.
Over the course of a month, Scott used his computer at work to engage in chats that were sexually explicit and graphic in nature, court documents said.
Eventually, Scott asked to meet the woman and her children and a meeting was arranged for 5 a.m. at a Bremerton hotel.
"Scott provided graphic detail of specific sex acts he wanted to perform, and which he wanted the children to perform as well," the documents said.
Scott joined the Navy in 1982, with tours in Hawaii, Guam, Whidbey Island and San Diego.
He also served as command master chief of the USS Camden and the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group. The USS Abraham Lincoln is based in Everett.
In court on Monday, Scott told the judge, "The shame that I am experiencing and have experienced through this whole thing pales drastically in the comparison with the pain and anguish that I have caused my family and the huge discredit that I have brought upon the naval service. Both of which I am very truly sorry for."
Scott's wife Robin told the judge that she'd never been hurt more deeply, but she asked that her husband get the treatment he needs instead of a long jail sentence.
"Even though I've been hurt in a way I could never imagine, I want to see him get help and I hope that's what you choose," Robin Scott said.
Scott will receive credit for the three months he's already spent in jail, and will have to register as a sex offender when he is released.
Scott's status with the Navy is currently listed as "unauthorized absence," and a Navy board will determine his future with the military branch.
"He's not really a monster," said Scott's mother, Kathy Warren. "He made a mistake. And we all acknowledge that fact."
Edward E. Scott, 44, was arrested March 16 entering a Bremerton motel where an Internet chat had led him to expect he would have sex with 12-year-old twins and their mother. The "mother" was actually an undercover officer.
Prosecutors had asked for Scott to be sentenced to seven years in prison, but the Judge Leonard Costello chose to sentence him under the state's special sex offender sentencing alternative.
At the time of his arrest the command master chief was the top enlisted man for Naval Base Kitsap.
Over the course of a month, Scott used his computer at work to engage in chats that were sexually explicit and graphic in nature, court documents said.
Eventually, Scott asked to meet the woman and her children and a meeting was arranged for 5 a.m. at a Bremerton hotel.
"Scott provided graphic detail of specific sex acts he wanted to perform, and which he wanted the children to perform as well," the documents said.
Scott joined the Navy in 1982, with tours in Hawaii, Guam, Whidbey Island and San Diego.
He also served as command master chief of the USS Camden and the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group. The USS Abraham Lincoln is based in Everett.
In court on Monday, Scott told the judge, "The shame that I am experiencing and have experienced through this whole thing pales drastically in the comparison with the pain and anguish that I have caused my family and the huge discredit that I have brought upon the naval service. Both of which I am very truly sorry for."
Scott's wife Robin told the judge that she'd never been hurt more deeply, but she asked that her husband get the treatment he needs instead of a long jail sentence.
"Even though I've been hurt in a way I could never imagine, I want to see him get help and I hope that's what you choose," Robin Scott said.
Scott will receive credit for the three months he's already spent in jail, and will have to register as a sex offender when he is released.
Scott's status with the Navy is currently listed as "unauthorized absence," and a Navy board will determine his future with the military branch.
"He's not really a monster," said Scott's mother, Kathy Warren. "He made a mistake. And we all acknowledge that fact."