Black Woman Tortured by 6 Whites For A Week?

Question

LOGAN, W.Va. — A woman who authorities said was sexually abused, beaten and stabbed while held captive for at least a week was repeatedly called a racial slur during the attacks, the victim's mother said.

Six people, all white, including a mother and son and a mother and daughter, have been arrested in connection with the alleged abduction of the 23-year-old black woman, sheriff's officials said Monday.

Authorities were still looking for two people they believe drove the woman to the home where she was abused, said Logan County Chief Deputy V.K. Dingess.

The FBI, which was asked by the sheriff's department to aid in the investigation, will look into whether a hate crime occurred.

The woman's abductors called her the N-word "every time they stabbed her," the woman's mother told The Charleston Gazette for a story published Tuesday.

The woman underwent surgery for leg wounds, Dingess told the paper.

Deputies found the woman Saturday after going to the home in Big Creek, about 35 miles southwest of Charleston, to investigate an anonymous tip.

One of the suspects, Frankie Brewster, was sitting on the front porch and told deputies she was alone, but moments later the woman limped toward the door, her arms outstretched, saying, "Help me," the sheriff's department said in a news release.

Besides being sexually assaulted, the woman had been stabbed four times in the left leg and beaten, Logan County sheriff's Sgt. Sonya Porter said. Her eyes were black and blue. The wounds were inflicted at least a week ago, deputies said.

During her capture, the woman was forced to eat rat and dog feces and drink from the toilet, according to the criminal complaint filed in magistrate court. She also had been choked with a cable cord and her hair was cut, it alleges.

"The things that were done to this woman are just indescribable," Porter said.

One of those arrested, Karen Burton, is accused of cutting the woman's ankle with a knife. She used the N-word in telling the woman she was victimized because she is black, according to the criminal complaint.

Deputies say the woman was also doused with hot water while being sexually assaulted.

"She wakes up in the middle of the night screaming, 'Mommy,"' the mother told the paper. "What's really bad is that we don't know everything they did to her. She is crying all the time."

The Associated Press normally does not name victims of suspected sex crimes, and is not identifying the mother to protect the identity of her daughter.

The six suspects were arrested Saturday and Sunday. Deputies were still trying to determine whether the woman knew her assailants, Porter said.

Brewster, the 49-year-old who owns the home where the alleged attacks occurred, is charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, malicious wounding and giving false information during a felony investigation.

Her son, Bobby R. Brewster, 24, also of Big Creek, is charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, malicious wounding and assault during the commission of a felony.

Burton, 46, of Chapmanville, is charged with malicious wounding, battery and assault during the commission of a felony.

Her daughter Alisha Burton, 23, of Chapmanville, and George A. Messer, 27, of Chapmanville, are charged with assault during the commission of a felony and battery.

Danny J. Combs, 20, of Harts, is charged with sexual assault and malicious wounding.

All six were held Monday in lieu of $100,000 bond each, and all have asked for court-appointed attorneys.


What would make someone do something like this?
What did the F.B.I. do in the investigation of this case?

Where there any civil rights violation or hate crimes charged against these people?

Answer 1

String them up all of them and do the same things to them. I am a white woman, and remember as a child in Texas seeing the black and white everything, drinking water fountains, can you imagine such ignorance. I am ashamed of the white race and wish I could be black, I really do, because I would love to be with them. They have a better religious meetings, with the great singing, and have a better time between themselves. Know how to really sing, and dance, I must have been black in another life, because my heart goes out to people of color. They were treated worse than dogs during slavery, and I just think, it is worse than Hitler, what we did to the black people in this country. The very worse inhumanity to man. When will it ever end. I can relate to the anger of the black people for what the white people have done in the past and even now. Every time I see a black person, my heart goes out to them,and I treat them with the most respect I can.....I hope God can forgive us for the terrible treatment of these gentle, loving people. They have never deserved the treatment they got..

Answer 2

Hi Homeboy, What the HELL is this world coming to. I think they should do to those 6 people what they did to that poor girl because her skin is black. All colors and races have a right to be here with us and there shouldn't be a color issue towards any other races. For God Sakes we are all brothers and sisters and if the world would start acting like this things would be a lot better and a must happier world.
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Answer 3

Hopefully, they will all also be charged with committing a hate crime. I suppose they will plead and turn on each other for lesser charges. What happened is terrible and I pray everyday that we all can co-exist without so much hatred and violence. I am expecting a child in December and I hate that she will have to know the possibility of being hurt or killed because of her race. I live with it and it can be paralyzing at times.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

those people are sick in the head, and they all need to go to jail for a long long time, and then some more. I believe they are not being charged with a hate crime, which I don't understand why. I saw this on the news. It will be interesting to see what exactly they do charge those devils with. They are sick and evil.

Answer 6

Like Don King used to say: Only in America! Geez, how can that be, nowadays, in the 21st century? We all take pride of our liberties and, yet again, we decide to play with others'. It's just bloody unbelievable. But hey, let's all come to America, 'cause here's the Heaven of all Heavens.

Answer 7

I hope they are charged with everything in the book, and that still would not be enough. That poor woman. The story is true, it was on the evening news. Horrible. God bless her.

Answer 8

They have an extreme hatred towards blacks. They let their "cause" blind they from normal human empathy. There hatred toward other problem gave them meaning and value in life, and by going to extreme it made they feel like they where living a full life.

Answer 9

WOW, I actually hadnt heard about that but thats horrible. Only pure hatred can cause something that awful to occur.

Answer 10

My goodness this is terrible. There are some really disgusting, demented people in this world. This is really going to stir some stuff up.