April 08, 2008
Rev. James L. Bevel Incest Trial Starts
LEESBURG, Va. -- A daughter of a civil rights icon who served as a top lieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr. testified Monday that her father regularly molested her beginning when she was 6 years old. The Rev. James L. Bevel pleaded not guilty to a charge of incest before jury selection began Monday. Prosecutors have said he had sex with a teenage daughter years ago, and told her the sex was part of religious training. The daughter testified she grew up in a communal lifestyle in which she regularly saw her father having sex with women and she came to perceive her own molestation as normal.Click Here For The Full Story......
Flashback - June 11, 2007
Civil Rights Leader James L. Bevel Charged With Incest
By Bill Brubaker / The Washington Post
James L. Bevel, a front-and-center figure in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s and confidant of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has been charged with incest in Loudoun County. Bevel, 70, was indicted by a Loudoun grand jury last month on one count of unlawfully committing fornication. The indictment followed a complaint to the Leesburg Police Department in September 2005, said Lt. Jeff Dube, a police spokesman.