Mahogany Alert - Megan Williams Update
September 23rd 2007 11:59 pm
There is still not that much coming out about Megan Williams. The lastest is that 5 of the 6 suspects will appear in court this week. None of the suspects are being tried for hate crimes because in West Virginia those charges only carry 10 year sentences. The current charges against them may bring life sentences. I don’t see why they can’t add the “hate crime” charge onto the kidnapping and sexual abuse they already face? But, the main thing is that these clowns spend the rest of their life behind bars.
Megan Williams Articles
New Black Panther Party is Coming to Logan County (link)…I didn’t even know there was a Black Panther Party still.
As Megan WIlliams continues to heal, the focus goes back to Logan County where 5 of the 6 suspects will be in court this week.
Now another national civil rights group plans to be in Logan County to watch these proceedings…
More details arise in WV torture case… (link)
Reading Tuesday from a statement 20-year-old Megan Williams gave deputies the day she was rescued from the ramshackle home, a sheriff’s deputy said she had been stabbed with what she described as a butcher knife and beaten with wooden sticks and fly swatters.
She said she was sexually assaulted, doused with hot water, forced to eat animal feces, and taunted with racial slurs. Among the new allegations, she said hot wax was poured on her, and that two of her captors forced her to drink a cup of their urine.
Torture Victim Faces Bad Check Counts (link)
Megan Williams is charged with offenses in Summers, Raleigh and Greenbrier counties. There are 11 misdemeanor counts of writing worthless checks, one misdemeanor count of obtaining under false pretenses and one felony count of failure to appear in circuit court in Summers County, according to documents provided by Kanawha County Magistrate Ward Harshbarger.
Hate Crime Laws Not Necessary (link)
Given the multiple felonies in these charges, plus previous convictions for killings by the two main defendants, there should be enough to mandate life sentences.
How would adding more time for a “hate crime” conviction do anything but waste the prosecution’s time having to prove this in court?
Universalwriter responded on 11 Oct 2007 at 10:29 am #
Megan Williams was interviewd by Final Call News on October 4, 2007. The article is disturbing as they talk about sodomy and how Megan was dropped off by her friend named Christa who never came back and a boy named Eddy who lived up the street from the Brewster’s was the one who called the police. Wow - this is all really crazy and after reading this new information I can’t imagine these Big Creek people getting anything accept LIFE in prison. It makes me so sad.
kdub responded on 12 Oct 2007 at 4:48 am #
I’ll check that out Uwriter. I just got back in town and I’m going to put together an update post on Megan.