Air Force Academy ethics instructor takes a seat over there

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Capt. Paul Sikkema, who is a philosophy professor teaching ethics at the Air Force Academy, has been arrested and charged with luring a child on the internet, a Class 4 felony.

The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado announced Sikkema’s arrest on Twitter Wednesday. The arrest was carried out by the sheriff’s office’s Internet Crimes Against Children investigators.

In a statement, the academyconfirmed Sikkema is one of their professors.

“We are tracking his civilian court case as it goes through the legal process and will cooperate fully as needed with the Arapahoe Sheriff’s Department,” the academy said.

Sikkema, 29, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, is held under a no hold bond and is scheduled to appear in court Thursday morning, said Deborah Sherman, the public affairs officer at the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office.

Sikkema earned his commission after graduating from the academy in 2012, and was named an outstanding graduate that year.

He wrote a thesis on the ethics of targeted killing while studying for his master’s degree at Georgia State University, according to his bio on the academy’s website, and became a philosophy professor at the academy in 2017.

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