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?

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It looks like Bell is going to spend more time in jail…(link)

Mychal Bell, the sole defendant who remains behind bars from the group of teens known as the “Jena 6,” will not be released Friday, a court decided.

White KKK members arrested for hanging nooses off of their trucks (link)

Authorities in Alexandria, less than 40 miles southwest of Jena, arrested two people who were driving a red pickup Thursday night with two nooses hanging off the back, repeatedly passing groups of demonstrators who were waiting for buses back to their home states.

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There is a big rally today for the Jena 6 young men. People are coming from as far as LA to join in and the all the news channels are on the scene. Remember to pray for those young men and pass the word…

Thousands rally to support Jena 6 (link)

…a Louisiana state patrol officer said five tour buses were being allowed into the town every 12 minutes. That resulted in buses lined up as far as the eye could see in both directions on Route 49, reported CNN.com’s Eliott McLaughlin…

David Bowie dropping it like it’s hot in Jena (link)

David Bowie has donated $10,000 to a legal defense fund for six black teens charged in an alleged attack on a white classmate in the tiny central Louisiana town of Jena.

Thousands in Jena (link)

Studenst Decend upon Jena (link)

Jena Six: Today They March (link)

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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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