VIRGINIA
NV Daily
By Joe Beck
The former pastor of a church in Shenandoah County has been sentenced in Page County to six years in prison on child molestation charges.
Judge Bruce Albertson imposed the sentence on James Daley, 72, of Luray. Daley was also sentenced to five years probation. The sentence included a total of 18 years in prison, 12 of which were suspended.
Daley’s offenses — one count of aggravated sexual battery to a child less than 13 years old and five counts of indecent liberties with a child– carried a sentence that could have gone as high as 45 years.
Daley committed the crimes while he was pastor at Beth Eden Lutheran Church in Luray. He and his wife Margaret operated a day care center from their Luray home that was linked to James Daley’s offenses.
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