Looks like the employee of the month poster from the local Wal-Mart.
Posted on 09/11/2007 8:41:29 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
BIG CREEK, W.Va. - For at least a week, authorities say, a young black woman was held captive in a mobile home, forced to eat animal waste, stabbed, choked and repeatedly sexually abused — all while being peppered with a racial slur.
It wasn't until deputies acting on an anonymous tip drove to a ramshackle trailer deep in West Virginia's rural hills that she was found. Limping toward the door with her arms outstretched, she uttered, "Help me," the Logan County sheriff's office said.
Six people, all white, including a mother and son and a mother and daughter, have been arrested and could face federal hate crime charges in the suspected attack on 20-year-old Megan Williams, who remained hospitalized Tuesday with injuries that included four stab wounds in the leg, and black and blue eyes. Her right arm was in a cast.
"I'm better," Williams told The Associated Press in a voice barely above a whisper.
"I don't understand a human being doing another human being the way they did my daughter," Carmen Williams said Tuesday from the Charleston Area Medical Center. "I didn't know there were people like that out here."
The AP generally does not identify suspected victims of sexual assault, but Williams and her mother agreed to release her name.
A prosecutor said police are investigating the possibility that the victim was lured to the house and attacked by a man she had met online, but Carmen Williams insisted that wasn't the case. "This wasn't from the Internet," she said.
Authorities were still looking for two people they believe drove the woman to the house where she was abused, said Logan County Chief Deputy V.K. Dingess. Deputies also interviewed Williams on Tuesday morning. An FBI spokesman in Pittsburgh, Bill Crowley, confirmed that the agency is looking into possible civil rights violations.
The case is "something that would have come out of a horror movie," Logan County Sheriff W.E. Hunter said.
The home is in a forlorn part of Logan County about 50 miles southwest of Charleston, where the scattered homes are marked by "No Trespassing" signs. An old shed linked to a mobile home by an extension cord is what authorities say became a hellish prison for Williams.
Deputies found her when they drove to the home on Saturday after receiving an anonymous tip from someone who witnessed the abuse, officials said.
The woman was forced to eat rat and dog feces and drink from a toilet, according to the criminal complaint filed in magistrate court based on what the suspects told deputies. She also had been choked with a cord, it alleges. Deputies say the woman was also doused with hot water while being sexually assaulted.
One of those arrested, Karen Burton, is accused of cutting the woman's ankle with a knife. She used the N-word in telling the woman she was victimized because she is black, according to the criminal complaint.
Carmen Williams said doctors told her daughter she may be well enough to leave the hospital within a few days, although a nurse said the young woman's condition was listed as "under evaluation."
"I just want my daughter to be well and recover," Carmen Williams said. "I know the Lord can do anything."
The six suspects were arrested Saturday and Sunday. Frankie Brewster, the 49-year-old woman who owns the home where the suspected attacks occurred, is charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, malicious wounding and giving false information during a felony investigation.
Her son, Bobby R. Brewster, 24, also of Big Creek, is charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, malicious wounding and assault during the commission of a felony.
Frankie Brewster was released from prison in September 2000 after serving five years for voluntary manslaughter and wanton endangerment in the death of an 84-year-old woman, according to court records.
Burton, 46, of Chapmanville, is charged with malicious wounding, battery and assault during the commission of a felony.
Her daughter Alisha Burton, 23, of Chapmanville, and George A. Messer, 27, of Chapmanville, are charged with assault during the commission of a felony and battery.
Danny J. Combs, 20, of Harts, is charged with sexual assault and malicious wounding.
All six remained in custody Tuesday in lieu of $100,000 bail each, and all have asked for court-appointed attorneys.
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Tom Breen reported from Charleston, W.Va.
My state produces cops, firemen, scientists, entertainers and many many military officers.
What will we be remembered for?
A bunch for freakin inbred cracker Deliverance extras...All they need is a banjo and a bunch of canoes.
some real unsavory characters , more info in the Daily Mail article.
these people are going to go away for a long time. they had internet in that trailer? how do you lure someone to go to a place like that? drugs?
Evil knows no bounds
God bless the victim of this vile sick evil set of crimes. May she recover with the love of God and His angels.
This is horrible. This isn’t unique to West Virginia though. Horrors occur everywhere. Let us not forget the mother and two girls who were raped and then burned alive in CT. Most West Virginians are independent minded, friendly, and Patriotic. This group of people do not represent the norm.
Some people aren’t human. No metaphor or sarcasm intended.
Looks like the employee of the month poster from the local Wal-Mart.
Looks like the employee of the month poster from the local Wal-Mart.
“This is horrible. This isn’t unique to West Virginia though. Horrors occur everywhere. Let us not forget the mother and two girls who were raped and then burned alive in CT. Most West Virginians are independent minded, friendly, and Patriotic. This group of people do not represent the norm.”
Upstate NY here...2 local cheerleaders getting ready for school in the morning (parents off on vacation).
Neighbor waits until one is in the shower and kills the other - then kills the 2nd girl in the shower.
Put them in a meatgrinder and scattered the remains along a country road as he drove.
I believe the guy killed himself and saved everyone the trial.
Animals can come out from anywhere.
Yikes! Those mug shots look like photos of the worst inmates at a hospital for the mentally insane.
Is there any chance that the plastics chipper in Saddam’s pleasure palace is still operational? Any chance we might be able to borrow it for a while?
Cretins
From the pics of the creepy family, they did look like meth heads to me.
sick, deranged psycho scum of the earth......
Exactly. I hear the worst ignorant crap from people who think they are better than people who live in the country. Where I come from people build their own houses, grow their own vegetables, and raise their own chickens and beef. They know how to fix a car and how to get by with minimal reliance on Doctors. Even then they live till their 90s haven eaten rendered lard, various types of wildlife, and drinking unpasteurized milk. If the modern world would end they would survive just as they always have.
Yes there are weak minded and weak willed but until recently in history those people didn’t survive long in the country. We can thank the misplaced benevolence of a government gone wrong for making possible the monsters you see pictured. Whole families now have been raised on welfare and are wholly dependent and behave like mean dogs. It is horrible but is not any different than what we see in the projects in the inner city. People raised with no hope and no sense of honor tend to behave like animals.
Looks like the employee of the month poster from the local Wal-Mart.
My son was a WAL*MART employee after he got out of the USMC, waiting for his schooling to start. He spent five years defending this country and was honorably discharged. He aced his Math and English regents in high school and his IQ in is in the 150’s. I also have some good hard working friends who still work at WAL*MART. It’s a shame when someone makes such a broad unfair and judgmental statement.
Just down the road a ways from Big Creek is the community of Cora.
I had a drug agent tell me once that per capita, Cora has more drug dealers than some big suburban cities.
Yes, dope is bad there..The US.119 Drug Task Force frequently catch Detroit drug dealers there with trunks full of money, guns and drugs.
As for the net, well, computers are much cheaper nowadays.
Many years junked out on Meth + products of incest = no hope
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