Woman tortured for at least a week, officials say

(CNN) -- 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.

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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.

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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.

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

(You can see the lovely pictures of those arrested at the link above.)

I hope the perpetrators ROT IN HELL!

Six people? Six people held a woman hostage? Men AND women?

I'm amazed not only at the cruelty, but the absolute stupidity of such a crime.

Jesus.

I believe they would have eventually killed her.

There is absolutely no excuse for this.

My great-grandmother had a farm at 10 Mile Creek. My mother wanted to drive back there to show me the farm. She has always had a dream about buying the property from one of her cousins who inherited it.

When we started our way back through the hills it got a little iffy. Confederate flags everywhere. I swear there was a church every 1/4 to 1/2 mile. Probably a population of 50 for every steeple.

When we got way way back into the hills where my great-grandma's farm was, I wouldn't even park or get out of the car. We are talking "Deliverance" country.

My mom has since put to bed her dream of buying the farm since no one in the family would ever even attempt to go there after dark. Daytime was scary enough.

"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.

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."

People like these reinforce my support of the death penalty. They're unfit to live in any society.. even prison...

At least for starters...

They are all hollow eyed with scabs on their faces. I bet they all vote republican.

nope

They look like ignorant white hillbilly trailer trash to me. I ought to know, I got a family full of them.

That is beyond fucked up.