Possible hate crime in West Virginia - 6 white people kidnapping, torturing and sexually assault a 23 year old black woman for over 1 week

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Six West Virginia residents have been charged with kidnapping, torturing and sexually assaulting a Charleston woman for at least a week, the Logan County Sheriff's Department said Monday.

Sheriff's deputies went Saturday to a Big Creek, West Virginia, residence in response to an anonymous tip that a woman was being held against her will, the department said in a news release.

As they spoke with a woman on the front porch, "a female inside the residence limped toward the door with her arms held out, saying, "Help me."

The 23-year-old woman had stab wounds on her left leg and bruises around her eyes, authorities said. The wounds were about a week old, the release said.

"Deputies found her with two black eyes, part of her hair had been pulled out, she had lacerations on her neck, and she had been physically, mentally and sexually abused," Logan County Sheriff W.E. Hunter said.

The victim was forced to eat rat and dog feces and drink from the toilet, according to the criminal complaint filed in magistrate court, The Associated Press reported.

Deputies arrested Frankie Brewster, 49; her son Bobby, 24; Danny J. Combs, 20, of Harts, West Virginia; and George A. Messer, 27, Karen Burton, 46, and Alisha Burton, 23, all of Chapmanville, West Virginia. All six were held Monday in lieu of $100,000 bond each, and all have asked for court-appointed public defenders, according to AP.

Danny Combs and Alisha Burton

Frankie Brewster, left, and Bobby Brewster

George A. Messer and Karen Burton

Charges range from kidnapping and torturing to malicious wounding and battery.

Those arrested are white and the victim is black, and the FBI plans to investigate it as a possible hate crime, according to AP. The sheriff's department requested the FBI's participation, an agency spokesman told AP.

http://us.cnn.com/2007/US/09/10/woman.tortured/index.html

[Jason-Sasha 1]

Death sentence, anyone??

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Lovely. Surely a candidate for "how low" can a person (or 6 people) go.

Edited September 11, 2007 by Number 6

[JVKn'CVO 11]

Poor girl, that is terrible

Caro

[Scott & Lai 12]

Hang 'em by the 'nads

[JODO 2]

Sick

[one...two...tree 2,762]

This is a perfect example of why it is good to enact hate crime laws. Terrible.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

I'm volunteering for the firing squad.

[GaryC 7]

[addy 0]

I came home tonight after the usual blur of telephone operating calls and I had some horrible old woman first ask me which state I was in. She was very relieved when I mentioned the US. Then she goes on about how her phone company is letting a black girl roam around asking customers if they are happy with their service. She was ready to call the police on this person. I just eventually gave her the push off.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Lovely. Surely a candidate for "how low" can a person (or 6 people) go.

This is a fine neutral answer! Yeah, Its pretty low alright.To say the least. But what action would you suggest? If they are guilty, what might be a good punishment?

[Scott & Lai 12]

I'm volunteering for the firing squad.

too quick.

[Jasman0717 9]

That isn't right

[Heracles 417]

Lovely. Surely a candidate for "how low" can a person (or 6 people) go.

This is a fine neutral answer! Yeah, Its pretty low alright.To say the least. But what action would you suggest? If they are guilty, what might be a good punishment?

Capitol Punishment as you cannot rehabilitate these low lives. If people want to act like its the dark ages we need to treat hem like it's the dark ages. Just think, this is probably not the first victim.

There are seriously some ###### up people in the US. The sad thing is that they have more rights than the good honest people. Something I can bet my life on is that this rights for criminals was not the intention of the founders of this country and has been taken miles out of context.

[Caladan 19]

Poor girl.