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Couple indicted on multi-count rape charge

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Couple indicted on multi-count rape charge

Published 10:18am Thursday, March 1, 2012

Woman allegedly helped man, four children were under 13

A Lawrence County Grand Jury has indicted a Proctorville man on 51 counts of first-degree rape; his wife has been indicted on charges that she helped him.

Don D. Copley, 68, of 1518 County Road 70, was formally accused of “engaging in sexual conduct” with four girls who were under the age of 13 at the time of the alleged incidents.

The indictment alleges 10 incidents with one victim took place between 1991 and 1997. The indictment alleges 20 incidents took place with the second child between 1991 and 1996.

Copley is accused of criminal activity with the third child 10 times between 1993 and 1996 and 10 more times between 1996 and 2001. The last indictment alleges one act with the fourth child sometime between June and August of 2011. All the charges allege Copley committed the incidents “by force, threat of force or deception.”

His wife, Beverly K. Copley, 56, of the same address, was indicted on 41 counts of complicity to rape, which are also first-degree felonies. The indictment alleges Beverly Copley “did aid or abet Don D. Copley” in committing 41 of his 51 alleged sex crimes including the most recent ones.

2012 Mar 1