FORT WORTH, Texas -- A Roman Catholic priest was sentenced Monday to four years in prison for having sex with two inmates while a chaplain at a women's prison.
Vincent Inametti, 48, worked at Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth for seven years until last fall. He pleaded guilty in November to two counts of sexual abuse of a ward.
U.S. District Judge Terry Means said Inametti had violated trust as an employee of the federal prison _ and as a priest.
"For this he will face a higher authority than this one," Means said.
Both women were serving federal sentences for drug distribution conspiracy convictions. One met Inametti in 2004 after attending church services and becoming involved in the prison choir and Bible study classes, authorities said. The other met Inametti a few months later while working as a clerk for the prison's religious services department.
Inametti is a naturalized U.S. citizen who was ordained in his native country, Nigeria.
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