Six held in West Virginia torture horror

DitaPage* · September 14th, 2007, 07:20 AM

Holy shit, what an ugly bunch of deadshits. Ewwww

**travelbug** · September 14th, 2007, 08:03 AM

They all look like they're on meth.

What a disgusting bunch of wasted lives. I hope all of them are treated the same in prison as they treated this woman. Somebody needs to get the word out to the black inmates in the prison where these people will be, it will be taken care of.

**Sweetie** · September 14th, 2007, 08:06 AM

^ I hope so! How anyone could still think they are better than someone because of their skin color just completely blows my mind.

DitaPage* · September 14th, 2007, 08:16 AM

Its so American History X.

**sherbear905** · September 14th, 2007, 09:41 AM

Weren't they in the movie "The Hills Have Eyes?" or was it that "X Files" episode?

Good for that victim for getting out of there. Poor thing.

**Sweetie** · September 14th, 2007, 09:44 AM

Wrong Turn?

Yana* · September 14th, 2007, 07:54 PM

^^ This does remind me of Wrong Turn. Damn theyre ugly.

**Honey** · October 22nd, 2009, 08:41 PM

US woman 'lied about race attack'

Ms Williams had said she was tortured and forced to drink from a toilet

A woman in the US who said she was kidnapped, raped and tortured in a racially-motivated attack in 2007, has now said she fabricated her story. Seven people pleaded guilty to the attack on Megan Williams, now aged 22. Six are serving prison sentences.
But Ms Williams' lawyer now says she invented the story to get revenge on her boyfriend for hitting her.
Prosecutors have questioned the move, saying the alleged culprits were found guilty on the basis of evidence.
In September 2007, police following an anonymous call found Ms Williams, who is black, in a backwoods caravan in Big Creek, Logan County, in the state of West Virginia.
She told police officers she had been held there for days, beaten, stabbed, sexually assaulted and burned. She said she had been forced to eat rat droppings and drink from a toilet, and that her attackers had used racist insults.
At a press conference on Thursday in Columbus, Ohio, where Ms Williams now lives, her lawyer Byron Potts said she was "recanting her entire story".

She just wants to turn her life around. She's trying to, she can't continue to live this lie

Byron Potts

"She says it did not happen. She fabricated it," he told reporters.
"She wanted to get back at a boyfriend. He was mad at her."
He said the bruises on Ms Williams' face were indeed made when she was hit by her then-boyfriend, Bobby Brewster, but all the other injuries were self-inflicted, including razor cuts.
Brewster, was among the seven people, all of whom were white, who pleaded guilty to charges including kidnapping, sexual assault, malicious wounding and giving false information to police.
He received a lengthy jail term - as did his mother, Frankie Brewster, two other men and another mother and daughter pair.
A seventh man received a suspended sentence.
Recant 'absurd'

Ms Williams was found by police in a ramshackle trailer in woodland

Ms Williams did not appear at the press conference herself, but Mr Potts said she had told him she wanted to "right the wrong that was perpetrated on these six individuals".
"She just wants to turn her life around. She's trying to, she can't continue to live this lie," he said.
Mr Potts said his client had received threatening phone calls in recent days and was "scared".
But Brian Abraham, the prosecutor on the original case, said Ms William's recanting was "absurd".
He told reporters that investigators had decided early on Ms Williams could not be relied on to give an accurate testimony, but that the convictions were based on "pretty overwhelming" physical evidence.
"All of them have been in jail without filing appeals," CNN quoted him as saying.
The case was greeted with outrage when it emerged in 2007, and civil rights campaigner Rev Al Sharpton, who supported Ms Williams' cause at the time, said investigators should closely re-examine the details.
"If the prosecution depended on something Ms Williams said that she is now saying is false, the prosecutor needs to reopen that case," the New York Times quoted him as saying.
In an interview for Cleveland newspaper the Call and Post in January, Ms Williams suggested she had been persuaded by her mother, who died in June, to exaggerate her story.
Officials have not said what their next step will be and whether they will file charges against Ms Williams if her story is found to be false.

BBC NEWS | Americas | US woman 'lied about race attack'

**nancydrew** · October 22nd, 2009, 08:42 PM

Uh then why did they all plead guilty and refuse to appeal? Im confused.

**feliciakb** · October 22nd, 2009, 10:36 PM

Originally Posted by nancydrew

Uh then why did they all plead guilty and refuse to appeal? Im confused.

I've heard speculation that they could have been coerced. Or maybe since it was such a high profile case, they figured it would be best to take lighter sentences rather than risk conviction and sentencing of greater crimes. That happens pretty frequently.

I have to say that I am SHOCKED by this! Simply because I was SO disgusted and outraged by the original story.

**mrs.v** · October 22nd, 2009, 10:55 PM

What the hell?

**Charmed Hour** · October 22nd, 2009, 10:59 PM

Of course Al Sharpton had to stick his nose in there. That being said, what a horrible story. Those poor people. I wonder exactly what happened to them that they confessed and then plead out. The prosecutor said the evidence collected at the scene was key as the "victim" wasn't credible enough to testify.

**Mivvi21** · October 23rd, 2009, 12:13 AM

If she is telling the truth she needs to be locked up and the people that are sitting in jail should be immediately released.

**kingcap72** · October 23rd, 2009, 12:15 AM

Seven people don't plead guilty to a crime they didn't commit. I wonder if she's trying to change her story because she wants to get her boyfriend out of jail? She looks simple, so it wouldn't shock me.

**january** · October 23rd, 2009, 12:27 AM

Originally Posted by kingcap72

Seven people don't plead guilty to a crime they didn't commit. I wonder if she's trying to change her story because she wants to get her boyfriend out of jail? She looks simple, so it wouldn't shock me.

That was my first thought as well. From the accounts I read, there was overwhelming physical evidence. I'm actually curious if she's been threatened in some way, or if she's one of these dipshits who runs back to her abused boyfriend and then denies that it ever happened. I have a very hard time believing this was all a farce.