Post by keita on Sept 12, 2007 20:22:41 GMT -5
Racist Sickos Allegedly Tortured Black W.Va. Woman For Week
By BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, September 12th 2007, 4:00 AM
Lured into a house of hate, a black West Virginia woman was raped, choked, stabbed and forced to eat dog and rat feces as her six white tormentors berated her with the N-word, prosecutors said yesterday.
The ghastly week-long ordeal for 20-year-old Megan Williams ended Saturday when she stumbled out of her captors' shack near Charleston, pleading for help from cops responding to an anonymous tip at the address.
Among those facing hate-crimes prosecution in the gruesome case are two mothers and their two adult children, officials said.
"This seems like outright malice. It's something you'd see in a horror movie," said prosecutor Brian Abraham, adding that the FBI was assisting the investigation.
Williams, 20, is in a hospital recovering from days of torture, but she may never recover from the emotional trauma she's endured, her mother said.
"Every time they stabbed her, they called her 'n----r,'" Carmen Williams told The Charleston Gazette. "She wakes up in the middle of the night screaming, 'Mommy.' What's really bad is that we don't know everything they did to her. She is crying all the time."
While the Daily News tries to protect the identities of sexual-assault victims, Carmen Williams insisted the press identify her daughter so that the public is "aware that things like that will happen."
Cops said Megan Williams was intentionally lured into the trap by two people she thought were her friends.
"Apparently once they got her there they planned to do this," said Logan County Deputy Police Chief V.K. Dingess.
Arrested were Frankie Brewster, 49, and her son Bobby, 24. Also nabbed were Karen Burton, 46; her daughter Alisha, 23; Danny Combs, 20, and George Messer, 27.
Police were searching for two others, who allegedly drove her to the house.
The suspects took turns beating, stabbing, choking and sexually abusing Williams while constantly threatening her with death, according to a criminal complaint.
A rope was placed around Williams' neck, her hair was ripped out and she was made to eat dog and rat feces, drink from a toilet and lick up blood, the complaint charges. At one point, she was sexually assaulted while scalding water was poured on her body.
She was stabbed in the leg at least four times and both of her ankles were cut by a female suspect who allegedly taunted her, saying, "That's what we do to n-----s around here."
"They abused her sexually, stabbed her and probably would have killed her if they had not gotten caught," said Magistrate Leonard Codispoti.
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By BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, September 12th 2007, 4:00 AM
Lured into a house of hate, a black West Virginia woman was raped, choked, stabbed and forced to eat dog and rat feces as her six white tormentors berated her with the N-word, prosecutors said yesterday.
The ghastly week-long ordeal for 20-year-old Megan Williams ended Saturday when she stumbled out of her captors' shack near Charleston, pleading for help from cops responding to an anonymous tip at the address.
Among those facing hate-crimes prosecution in the gruesome case are two mothers and their two adult children, officials said.
"This seems like outright malice. It's something you'd see in a horror movie," said prosecutor Brian Abraham, adding that the FBI was assisting the investigation.
Williams, 20, is in a hospital recovering from days of torture, but she may never recover from the emotional trauma she's endured, her mother said.
"Every time they stabbed her, they called her 'n----r,'" Carmen Williams told The Charleston Gazette. "She wakes up in the middle of the night screaming, 'Mommy.' What's really bad is that we don't know everything they did to her. She is crying all the time."
While the Daily News tries to protect the identities of sexual-assault victims, Carmen Williams insisted the press identify her daughter so that the public is "aware that things like that will happen."
Cops said Megan Williams was intentionally lured into the trap by two people she thought were her friends.
"Apparently once they got her there they planned to do this," said Logan County Deputy Police Chief V.K. Dingess.
Arrested were Frankie Brewster, 49, and her son Bobby, 24. Also nabbed were Karen Burton, 46; her daughter Alisha, 23; Danny Combs, 20, and George Messer, 27.
Police were searching for two others, who allegedly drove her to the house.
The suspects took turns beating, stabbing, choking and sexually abusing Williams while constantly threatening her with death, according to a criminal complaint.
A rope was placed around Williams' neck, her hair was ripped out and she was made to eat dog and rat feces, drink from a toilet and lick up blood, the complaint charges. At one point, she was sexually assaulted while scalding water was poured on her body.
She was stabbed in the leg at least four times and both of her ankles were cut by a female suspect who allegedly taunted her, saying, "That's what we do to n-----s around here."
"They abused her sexually, stabbed her and probably would have killed her if they had not gotten caught," said Magistrate Leonard Codispoti.
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