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A retired Army colonel has been sentenced to prison for getting a classmate at the Army War College to take a paternity test in his place.
Scott Carlson, 53, was convicted in September on charges that included conspiracy and attempted theft by deception.
Carlson was convicted of arranging for a fellow officer attending the military school in Carlisle to submit a DNA sample and thumbprint for the paternity test in 2006 so he could avoid paying child support for a 10-year-old girl he fathered through an extramarital affair.
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