A federal judge sentenced the wife of a Schofield Barracks military police officer to 14 months in prison for lying to authorities to cover up her husband’s molestation of a teenage girl.
In pleading guilty in October, Janice Hayes, 35, admitted lying to the FBI and Army criminal investigators when she denied knowledge of the abuse.
William George Hayes II, 36, was charged with molesting two girls under the age of 16 at his Schofield Barracks home. He pleaded guilty last month in federal court to two counts of child molestation for having sex with one of the girls from January 1997 to February 1999, and for molesting the other girl on one occasion.
Lane Takahashi, Janice Hayes’ attorney, said the term handed down by federal Judge Alan Kay was the maximum under federal sentencing guidelines, although she technically could have received up to five years in prison. She already had served 13 months, Takahashi said.
William Hayes faces up to 30 years in prison when he is sentenced on April 30.
