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Last night on the news, a reporter had the audacity to imply that there was a relationship between the survivor and one of the attackers...almost implying that she asked for it. There is also question as to whether or not this will be charged as a hate crime. Unbelievable...but I am not surprised. This is another case we need to keep on our watch list.

6 arrested, charged in woman's week long torture # Authorities believe racism played role in ordeal (IN WEST VIRGINIA)

By Gary Harki
Staff writer

Carmen Williams doesn't understand why her 20-year-old daughter was tortured, raped and tied up in a shed.

Police tell her that what happened was probably a hate crime, that it happened because Megan Williams is black.

"Every time they stabbed her, they called her 'nigger,'" her mother said.

But whatever the reason, Carmen Williams wants people to know what happened to her daughter. She agreed to talk to a reporter from her daughter's room at Charleston Area Medical Center General Hospital.

She said a man and a woman -- who Megan Williams thought were her friends -- took her to the house of Frankie Lee Brewster in Pecks Mill, Logan County.

Megan Williams was held in the house for about a week, police said.

According to criminal complaints filed against six people in this case, she was beaten, stabbed, choked, sexually assaulted and threatened with death.

The details are even more horrible. According to the complaints, she was forced to eat dog and rat feces and to lick up blood. She was made to lick parts of Brewster's body, under the threat of death. Her hair was pulled out. She was made to drink from the toilet. She was sexually assaulted while hot water was poured on her body, and while a man held a knife to her.

A woman allegedly cut Megan Williams' ankle and said, "That's what we do to niggers around here."

Six people had been charged Monday evening, including Brewster, the 49-year-old woman who owns the home where the alleged assault happened. She is charged with sexual assault, kidnapping, malicious wounding and giving false statements to an officer.

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