News Stories Tagged "James L. Bevel"

Bevel Released on Bond

Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008

Former civil rights leader James L. Bevel has been released on bond after being convicted of having sex with one of his daughters and sentenced to 15 years in prison, attorneys in the case said today. Read story »

Former Civil Rights Leader Gets 15 Years for Sex With Daughter

Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008

Former civil rights leader James L. Bevel was sentenced in Loudoun County yesterday to 15 years in prison for having sex with one of his daughters, despite the 71-year-old's testimony that he recently learned that he has pancreatic cancer and may have only weeks or months to live. Read story and 9 comments »

Hearing Postponed for Civil Rights Leader Convicted of Incest

Friday, July 25, 2008

A Loudoun County judge today postponed the sentencing hearing for James L. Bevel, a civil rights leader in the 1960s who in April was convicted of incest for having sex with his teenage daughter. Read story and 6 comments »

A Father's Shadow

He was a hero of the civil rights movement, but he was something else, too -- a man who preyed on his daughters

Sunday, May 25, 2008

THE DETECTIVE WITH THE KIND EYES AND GENTLE MANNER led Aaralyn Mills into a barren interrogation room at the Leesburg police station on a mid-autumn day in 2005. In the center of the room was a table, and on the table sat a telephone. The phone was attached to a tape recorder, which had a listening wire that the detective placed in his ear. In the stillness of the concrete walls, the implication of what Aaralyn was about to do was suddenly very clear. Slowly, she picked up the receiver and dialed her father's number. Read story and 1 comment »

Bevel's Daughter: Father's Conviction Is Bittersweet

Friday, April 11, 2008

Aaralyn Mills said she had a bittersweet feeling late Thursday afternoon when a Loudoun County jury found her 71-year-old father, Christian minister and former civil rights leader James L. Bevel, guilty of having sex with her in 1990s when she was a teenager. Read story »

Loudoun Jury Convicts Civil Rights Leader of Incest

Friday, April 11, 2008

A Loudoun County jury Thursday found former civil rights leader James L. Bevel guilty of incest and said he should spend 15 years in prison for having sex with one of his daughters in the 1990s when they lived in Leesburg. Read story »

Jury Convicts Rights Leader in Incest Case

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Civil rights leader James L. Bevel was convicted today in a Loudoun County incest case, only hours after it was sent to the jury. Read story »

Minister, Rights Leader Denies Incest Charges

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

James L. Bevel, a Christian minister and leader in the U.S. civil rights movement of the 1960s, insisted repeatedly at his incest trial in Loudoun County yesterday that he did not have sex in the 1990s with one of his daughters. Read story »

Jury Hears Tape Recording in Incest Trial

Bevel Responded Vaguely to Questions About Alleged Encounters

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Prosecutors in the incest trial of civil rights leader James L. Bevel played a tape for a Loudoun County jury yesterday of a phone conversation in which he never fully admitted or denied having sex in the 1990s with his then-teenage daughter, despite her repeated attempts to get him to make the admission. Read story »

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