VIRGINIA
Northern Virginia Daily

By Joe Beck

The wife of a former area pastor has been sentenced in Page County Circuit Court to 10 days in jail in a child molestation case in which her husband was sentenced to six years in prison.

Judge Bruce Albertson sentenced Margaret Daley about a month after he sentenced James Daley, 72, on one count of aggravated sexual battery of a child less than 13 years old and five counts of indecent liberties with a child, all offenses committed against the same victim.

The Daleys operated a day care center from their Luray home, the site of the offenses. James Daley was also a pastor at Beth Eden Lutheran Church in Luray at the time he committed the offenses. He was a pastor at Lebanon Lutheran Church in Shenandoah County for a period in the 1980s.

Margaret Daley was convicted and sentenced under…