Woman tortured for at least a week

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/10/woman.tortured/index.html?eref=yahoo

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.

Danny Combs and Alisha Burton were charged in the West Virginia case.

1 of 3 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.

check out the mugshots. That shit makes people do nasty bad things.


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investigated as a hate crime.

What a horror. Words escape me.

According to news reports, Christian and Newsom had gone on a date at a local restaurant on Saturday, January 6, 2007, but did not return home. During their night out, the couple was "hijacked, bound and blindfolded and taken back to Lemaricus Devall 'Slim' Davidson's rented house on Chipman Street."<4>

Christian's parents found her abandoned Toyota 4-Runner two blocks away from the Chipman Street house on Monday, with the help of her mobile phone provider. An envelope recovered from the vehicle yielded fingerprint evidence that led police to Lemaricus Davidson and 2316 Chipman Street. When police went to the address on Tuesday, January 9, they found the home unoccupied and Christian's body in a trash can in the kitchen. Christian had been strangled to death.<5> According to the grand jury presentment, Christian had also been raped vaginally, orally, and anally.<2> One of the suspects, Vanessa Coleman, later told police that "she witnessed Christian's mouth being cleaned with a bottle of some type of cleaner," in an attempt to remove DNA evidence.<6> Coleman also said that she had seen "clothes that were stained with blood and smelled of gas being put in the washing machine at the house."<6> Newsom was shot three times, "his body wrapped in a blanket, set afire and dumped alongside nearby railroad tracks." <5><7> He had also been anally raped.<2>

The national news media was initially criticized by some for not giving the crime adequate coverage<4><8> because the victims were white, and the suspects black, but some commentators have explained that "as bad as this crime is, the apparent absence of any interest group involvement or any other 'angle' might also explain the lack of coverage." <9><10> This criticism was also fueled by erroneous reports of dismemberment, mutilations, and the duration of Christian's rapes allegedly committed by the suspects, especially in early reports.<11> Most of the original reports were later denied by the District Attorney, along with misinformation reported from a federal deputy in the arresting state of Kentucky shortly after the suspects were apprehended.<11> The crime and its lack of mainstream media coverage prompted two small demonstrations in Knoxville by white nationalist groups, resulting in one arrest.<12><13> <14><15>

Police Chief Sterling Owen IV said that there is no indication the crimes were racially motivated, and that the murders and assault "appears to have been a random violent act."<16> "There is absolutely no proof of a hate crime," said John Gill, special counsel to Knox County District Atty. Randy Nichols. "We know from our investigation that the people charged in this case were friends with white people, socialized with white people, dated white people. So not only is there no evidence of any racial animus, there's evidence to the contrary." <17> Some commentators, including Newsom's parents, disagree, claiming that such a crime would require a motive of racial hate. <17>

murderers...


victims..



January 6, 2007, I don't recall the MSM making a big deal about this either.

check out my post from the other thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1779616&mesg_id=1779717

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