Woman imprisoned and tortured in W. Virginia

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Woman, 20, Imprisoned and Tortured LOGAN, W.Va., Sept. 11 — A 20-year-old woman was held captive for more than a week in a mobile home, where she was raped, stabbed and tortured by at least a half-dozen people, the police said. Sheriff’s deputies rescued her on Saturday, and she remained hospitalized Tuesday in stable condition.“I’ve been in law enforcement for more than 30 years, and this is the first time I’ve ever seen anything of this nature,” the Logan County sheriff, Eddie Hunter, said.Six people, including a mother and her son and a mother and her daughter, have been charged in the case. The police said the people charged, all of whom are white, yelled racial slurs at the woman, who is black, during some of the attacks. The woman endured horrific torture, according to court documents. She was raped by multiple men, some of whom poured scalding water on her during the assaults, according to the criminal complaints. She was forced to lick up blood, eat animal feces and drink water from a toilet, the documents said, and she was also stabbed repeatedly in the leg and was told that if she tried to leave, she would be killed.The police said that more than a week ago, the victim went with Bobby R. Brewster, 24, who she believed was a friend, to the trailer where he lives with his mother, Frankie Lee Brewster, 49, in Big Creek, in the northern end of Logan County.On Tuesday, the police were interviewing the victim further about two more people she said were involved. On Saturday, Logan County deputies received a tip about a woman being held against her will at the Brewster residence. A person working in the area had heard disturbing noises coming from the trailer and seen the victim with cuts on her leg through the window, the police said.“Upon the deputies’ arrival, they found Mrs. Frankie Brewster sitting on the front porch,” a police report says. The deputies asked Mrs. Brewster if anyone else was at the residence and she said she was alone. As she was talking, the police documents say, Mrs. Brewster got up and stepped toward the door, when a woman inside the residence limped toward the door with her arms held out and said, “Help me.” The woman’s eyes were bruised and she had four large stab wounds on her left leg, the police said.Police documents say Mrs. Brewster admitted to holding the victim at the trailer against her will and beating her.The victim was taken to Logan Regional Hospital and then to the General Hospital of Charleston Area Medical Center, where she underwent surgery for her leg wounds. Mrs. Brewster was charged with sexual assault, kidnapping, malicious wounding and giving false statements to an officer. Mr. Brewster was charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, malicious wounding and assault during the commission of a felony. The Brewster family and their trailer has a history of violent crime, the police said. Mr. Brewster killed his stepfather there when he was 12, the authorities said, and served time at a juvenile correction facility. In July 1994, Mrs. Brewster shot and killed an 84-year-old woman she was looking after, also in the trailer, according to court records.Mrs. Brewster, who was charged with first-degree murder, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and served six years at a state correctional facility. She was paroled in 2000. In 2005, two men got into a fight outside the trailer, the police said, ending with a fatal stabbing. In January, the police were again called to the trailer, where they found a man who had been slashed across his abdomen; the man survived, according to court documents, and Mr. Brewster was a witness in that case. Also being held in the case of the young woman were Danny J. Combs, 20, who was charged with sexual assault and malicious wounding; George A. Messer, 27, who was charged with assault during the commission of a felony and battery; Karen Burton, 46, who was charged with malicious wounding, battery and assault during the commission of a felony; and her daughter, Alisha Burton, 23, who was charged with assault during the commission of a felony and battery. The four were being held in $100,000 bond each. The Brewsters were being held pending bond hearings. The authorities said they were still deciding whether to file additional charges, of hate crimes, against the defendants.“The whole family is shocked,” a sister of the victim said. The victim, who, relatives said, has mild learning disabilities but graduated from high school. The sister would not comment on whether the victim was living at home or had a job.

Wow how awful! Truly horrific.Scary enough after my parents got a divorce my mother moved us kids to WV with her soon to be husband, we actually moved to Logan county. We lived in Blue Creek which is right next to Big Creek.

wut i want to know is this family and their trailer has this much history in shit why the fuck did the police let them keep it and why the fuck are they let back out.......some one needs to kill off that fucking familythis is wut i don’t; under stand about the system...(or lawyers)theses people absolutely should be out. Medusa pleaded guilty for a "lesser sentence" BUT she got life, no parole and had no bound before her sentencing court. (i dk if i worded it right but u know wut i mean) ..and yet she killed no one and well hell i think wut they did was a hell a lot worse.

Exactly what I was thinking.This family has committed several murders in the past and yet they are still living free (or were)

WTF is wrong with people?

I would love to know what kind of jail time they get...if any. The woman actually killed someone and only got 6 years in prison?! They should definatly get charged for hate crime too. Hopefully that will keep tham in jail longer.

I couldn't do that to an animal. I'd rather take my own life then hurt an innocent animal like that.. How can you do that to a person unless your devoid of a soul altogether..

wow are you serious? this is like what you see in horror movies but... that's what I'm talking about.good grief. that's scary. and a big warning.

Wow. I'd like to know what happened to Mrs. Brewster to make her become such a heartless being, and what had really caused the other people to behave like that. I can not express how bad I feel for the woman who was invaded and deigned for such a period of time. This certainly does not put a good name to the so called "equality" of races we have in America.

Hm. Maybe we should not worry about "equality" on behalf of the people who committed the crime either.Maybe since they had no problems maliciously assulting this girl in every way imagenable.We should ask the victem if she wants us to just go ahead and not worry about the "equality" of them while they are detained.I say we let horses rape the fuckers, and brand shit into their forheads with branding irons.Why do we continue to show fairness to those who with hold it from others?

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Why do we continue to show fairness to those who with hold it from others?
1. Because it's right, and not to be fair brings us down to the same level;

2. Because the other way leads to ever-escalating violence.

I realise those. I guess i'm going to have to ask no one take anything I say too seriously at the moment.. at least not till I'm more stable minded.

Commentary: Where is the outrage when humans are abused? Here's a commentary I found yesterday on CNN. He makes a damn good point.Also, why do you think this hasn't gotten much national attention?

It's a very good comment.

I believe the Vick case was such a big thing simply because he is a celebrity. I think no matter what his crime was, he still would have been all over the media. This is a link to the story mentioned in that article about the couple that was killed: http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/newsom.aspI know it's just a Snopes article, but it mentions in there why they think murder is not a national attention grabber.

That poor woman... I can't even begin to comprehend how horrifying an experience it must have been

Well, it might be a good point...except...There was a huge outcry over Vick because everyone and their dog was very aware of what happened. With this poor women, very few people are even aware it happened. So it's really unfair to ask why people are more outraged over a dog than a woman, when the real question is why the death of a dog gets more press.