A former high-level official for the Federal Emergency Management Agency could be headed to prison for the rest of his life after being sentenced to 35 years in prison for sexually abusing a preteen girl.
Former FEMA spokesman James McIntyre, 63, was posted in Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He left the agency last year shortly after he was charged with abusing a girl on multiple occassions.
McIntyre, a resident of Fairfax, Virginia, pleaded guilty in Fairfax County Circuit Court in November 2015 to six charges including aggravated sexual battery, animate object penetration and forcible sodomy.
The investigation of McIntyre began after a school counselor reported the alleged abuse to Child Protective Services. Fairfax City police were contacted.
If McIntyre is released from prison after servng his sentence, he will be on three years of supervised probation and must wear a GPS monitor.
