Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 23, 1994 TAG: 9411230124
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: RON BROWN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: FINCASTLE LENGTH: Medium
But the passer-by threw up his hands, got into his car and drove off, the boy told police.
Lovewine then sodomized the boy after driving him to Botetourt County.
The final chapter of the Lovewine case began Tuesday in Botetourt County Circuit Court when Lovewine, who has admitted performing oral sex on two teen-agers in the spring while posing as a police officer, pleaded guilty.
"In no way am I trying to get out of this," Lovewine said before entering his plea.
But Tom Wray, his attorney, said there's more to the story than was presented to Judge George Honts III.
Wray said Lovewine, who cried several times before his plea, has told him that he was raped at least 40 times as a youngster while living in Tidewater.
Once, he was abducted for two days and forced into homosexual acts, Wray said Lovewine told him.
The scars of those encounters left Lovewine with impulses that he couldn't control, Wray said.
"I hope you'll send me somewhere that I can get some help," Lovewine told Honts.
Honts can send him off for a long time to rehabilitate. The abduction charge and two sodomy charges in Botetourt County could bring three life terms when he's sentenced Jan. 17. Honts has ordered a background report.
Lovewine, who was living and working in Glasgow at the time of his arrest, faces another life term after being convicted of abduction in Roanoke County last month.
Police say Lovewine is a man of above-average intelligence. But his world is the here-and-now of the streets.
That steely perspective enabled him to bluff two boys - one in March, another in June - into his car and convince them he would hurt them if they didn't go along with his sexual advances, police say.
The first boy, 14, was shopping at Valley View Mall just about nightfall when Lovewine approached him. Lovewine, claiming to be a police officer, followed the boy into Hechinger's, where he was photographed by a surveillance camera as the boy called home. Lovewine took the telephone from the youngster and told him that his mother said he should go with him.
He then drove him to Cloverdale, where he performed oral sex on the boy in a shopping center parking lot.
On June 11, Lovewine followed a 15-year-old boy and several friends to Virginia 311 in Roanoke County. He flashed his car lights to pull over the teen-agers' car. He then touched the 15-year-old's genitals under the pretense of frisking him.
He told the boy to get into his car. Again, he identified himself as a police officer. He drove the boy to the same shopping center parking lot in Cloverdale, where he began demanding that the boy allow him to perform oral sex.
"I thought he would kill me or something," the boy testified.
The bluff continued even when a sheriff's deputy came upon the scene. Lovewine calmly offered to leave the parking lot. The deputy, thinking it was a boyfriend and girlfriend in the car, left without investigating further.
Lovewine drove the boy north on U.S. 11 past Troutville, where he pulled off onto a side road and sodomized the teen-ager again.
About two weeks later, Lovewine was arrested after someone recognized him from a police composite photograph.
Sheriff Reed Kelly testified that even after his arrest, Lovewine didn't seem ashamed of what he'd done.
"His only regret, in my opinion, is that he got caught," Kelly said.
by CNB