It seems like only certain bits of information make it into the eyes of the media. That is why I appreciate small sites and blogs because I find out about information that you don’t normally see on the local or cable news stations. All you hear about is one story and they beat it into the ground. When Vick’s dog fighting case broke it was major, Lohan getting drunk equals front page news, lady shoots her husband in the back and she ends up on Oprah…
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So where is the uproar over Megan Williams?

This is a horrible hate crime that just hit the news. A young black women was tortured by 6 people in West Virginia, all of them white. They sexually assaulted her, tied her up, and kept her locked in a small house for days. This is very sad. Pray for the young women as she is still in the hospital.
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At least my man Roland Martin is asking the same question…where is the outrage when stuff like this happens? (link here)
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AP story on Megan Williams…here
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But whatever the reason, Carmen Williams wants people to know what happened to her daughter. She agreed to talk to a reporter from her daughter’s room at Charleston Area Medical Center General Hospital.

She said a man and a woman — who Megan Williams thought were her friends — took her to the house of Frankie Lee Brewster in Pecks Mill, Logan County.

Megan Williams was held in the house for about a week, police said.

According to criminal complaints filed against six people in this case, she was beaten, stabbed, choked, sexually assaulted and threatened with death.

The details are even more horrible. According to the complaints, she was forced to eat dog and rat feces and to lick up blood. She was made to lick parts of Brewster’s body, under the threat of death. Her hair was pulled out. She was made to drink from the toilet. She was sexually assaulted while hot water was poured on her body, and while a man held a knife to her.

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Update: Suspects will not be tried for hatecrimes because other state charges carry stiffer sentences…(here)

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