MASCOUTAH, Ill. (AP) — An Air Force commander has upheld the seven-month confinement term of a master sergeant convicted of sexually assaulting a female he was supervising at the Scott Air Force base.

The Belleville News-Democrat reports Lt. Gen. Carlton Everhart, as commander of the 18th Air Force based at Scott, upheld the sentence of Thomas Fry.

Fry’s sentence also included a reduction in his enlisted grade, and a bad-conduct discharge.

The Air Force announced in September that Fry was convicted of sexual assault and abusive sexual contact linked to what prosecutors said was his attempt to have sex with the victim in October 2013 as she slept.

Fry had claimed that he was intoxicated and that he mistook the victim for his wife.

Fry remains jailed in Virginia.

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