A former Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) soldier has been sentenced to prison for sexually abusing children.

Jonathan Gentry, 36, will spend 25 years behind bars for the sexual abuse of four young children who were left in his care, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington announced .

The four children disclosed “horrific sexual abuse,” the attorney’s office stated.

Gentry molested six children between January 2010 and February 2014.

In August 2013, he was prosecuted in military court for sexually molesting two 13-year-olds and was sentenced to two years in military prison.

“This defendant used threats of terrible harm to silence his victims,” Acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller said, according to the news release. “These children showed great courage ste

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