{"id":3632,"date":"2007-09-12T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T16:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/12\/black-woman-attacked-sexually-assaulted-and-held-captive-in-west-virginia\/"},"modified":"2007-09-12T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T16:13:48","slug":"black-woman-attacked-sexually-assaulted-and-held-captive-in-west-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3632","title":{"rendered":"Black Woman Attacked, Sexually Assaulted, and Held Captive in West Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update: The AP, in a rather suspect move, is reporting the victim’s name, which will not be appearing on\u00a0this site.\u00a0 They are saying they have permission; however, to me it feels like they are taking advantage of this young woman, who\u00a0will\u00a0likely\u00a0get a bunch of hate mail and death threats from white supremacists.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m not sure that I can find words to adequately describe the brutality of this crime.\u00a0 You can read more details below.\u00a0\u00a0Here’s the initial report<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Authorities are investigating whether a woman who was tortured in a southern West Virginia home for more than a week may have been lured there by a man she met on the Internet.<\/span>Police were still looking for two people they suspect drove the 23-year-old Charleston woman about 50 miles to the Big Creek home where she was abused, said Logan County Chief Deputy V.K. Dingess.<\/span>There, according to police, she was beaten, sexually assaulted and humiliated.<\/span>Logan County Prosecutor Brian Abraham said police are investigating the possible Internet connection into what some are calling one of the most shocking crimes in the county\u2019s recent history.<\/span>In 30 years of law enforcement, Logan County Sheriff W.E. Hunter said he\u2019s never seen anything like this.<\/span>It\u2019s \u201csomething that would have come out of a horror movie,\u201d he said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Deputies were interviewing the victim Tuesday morning and are scheduled to meet later in the day to discuss the case with Abraham, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney\u2019s office. The officials may decide then whether to file hate crimes charges.<\/p>\n

Bill Crowley, spokesman for the FBI in Pittsburgh, confirmed that the agency is looking into possible civil rights violations.<\/p>\n

Six Logan County residents, including a mother and son and a mother and daughter, remained in custody Tuesday on $100,000 bonds each. They are charged in the weeklong kidnapping and abuse of the woman.<\/p>\n

All six are white. The victim, who was being treated Tuesday at the Charleston Area Medical Center General Hospital, is black.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery one of these people who were arrested are no strangers to law enforcement,\u201d Hunter said.<\/p>\n

Deputies found the woman Saturday after going to the home in Big Creek to investigate an anonymous tip from someone who had witnessed the abuse, Sgt. Sonya Porter said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

One of the suspects, Frankie Brewster, was sitting on the front porch and told deputies she was alone, but moments later the victim limped toward the door, her arms outstretched, saying, \u201cHelp me,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s department said in a news release.<\/p>\n

Besides being sexually assaulted, the victim had been stabbed four times in the left leg and beaten, Porter said. Both of her eyes were black and blue. The woman\u2019s wounds were inflicted at least a week ago, deputies said.<\/p>\n

During her capture, 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 woman also had been choked with a cable cord and her hair cut, it alleges.<\/p>\n

One of those arrested, Karen Burton, is accused of cutting the woman\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Deputies say the woman was also doused with hot water while being sexually assaulted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have all been praying and asking the Lord to take us through this,\u201d the victim\u2019s mother told The Charleston Gazette on Monday. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to deal with it. We are very angry. … She will be scarred for a long time.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe wakes up in the middle of the night screaming, \u2019Mommy,\u201d\u2019 the mother said. \u201cWhat\u2019s really bad is that we don\u2019t know everything they did to her. She is crying all the time.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Some evidence suggests that the crime was racially motivated.\u00a0 We’ll have to watch the details as they come out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: The AP, in a rather suspect move, is reporting the victim’s name, which will not be appearing on\u00a0this site.\u00a0 They are saying they have permission; however, to me it feels like they are taking advantage of this young woman, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,93,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism-sexism-etc","category-race-racism-and-related-issues","category-rape-intimate-violence-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}