News & Politics - Woman tortured for at least a week

Pace & Jo · 09-11-2007, 05:41 PM

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CNN) -- Six West Virginia residents have been charged with kidnapping, torturing and sexually assaulting a Charleston woman for at least a week, the Logan County Sheriff's Department said Monday.

Danny Combs and Alisha Burton were charged in the West Virginia case.

1 of 3 Sheriff's deputies went Saturday to a Big Creek, West Virginia, residence in response to an anonymous tip that a woman was being held against her will, the department said in a news release.

As they spoke with a woman on the front porch, "a female inside the residence limped toward the door with her arms held out, saying, "Help me."

The 23-year-old woman had stab wounds on her left leg and bruises around her eyes, authorities said. The wounds were about a week old, the release said.

"Deputies found her with two black eyes, part of her hair had been pulled out, she had lacerations on her neck, and she had been physically, mentally and sexually abused," Logan County Sheriff W.E. Hunter said.

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 Associated Press reported.

Deputies arrested Frankie Brewster, 49; her son Bobby, 24; Danny J. Combs, 20, of Harts, West Virginia; and George A. Messer, 27, Karen Burton, 46, and Alisha Burton, 23, all of Chapmanville, West Virginia. All six were held Monday in lieu of $100,000 bond each, and all have asked for court-appointed public defenders, according to AP.

Charges range from kidnapping and torturing to malicious wounding and battery.

Those arrested are white and the victim is black, and the FBI plans to investigate it as a possible hate crime, according to AP. The sheriff's department requested the FBI's participation, an agency spokesman told AP.

Woman tortured for at least a week, officials say - CNN.com

*Ledi* · 09-12-2007, 06:26 AM

That is so sick.

elisheva · 09-12-2007, 06:30 AM

That's so scary and disturbing

ursa major · 09-12-2007, 09:18 PM

This is horrible.

I cannot believe the judge granted bond for such henious crimes. These criminals don't deserve to see the light of day again, not even to wait for trial. I tell you there's no justice in this world.

Jacob1983 · 09-12-2007, 09:25 PM

These sickos that did those horrible things to that woman don't deserve a trial. They should be put away in solitaire confinement for the rest of their lives. They need to be punished for what they did. No excuses.

Sheebs · 09-13-2007, 03:18 AM

^^ I agree 100%.

Jacob1983 · 09-13-2007, 05:57 PM

Why aren't Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton speaking out about this? I mean they get their panties in a wad when white celebrities talk crap about blacks yet when something serious and bad happens they do nothing. They should be at the hospital where that young black woman is and helping her out with anything she needs.

**sunnykerr** · 09-16-2007, 08:54 PM

This is so sick and twisted.

But all I can say is thank God she was found. Thank God, seriously.

abw92 · 09-17-2007, 01:55 PM

^I agree. Thank god she was found.

What they did is so sick.

AdriaMichelle · 09-21-2007, 10:52 AM

Oh, God, what a sad and disturbing story....

I am so relieved that she was found.

May justice be served.

And I pray that she gets through this the best way she can.

**GrhmLz** · 09-21-2007, 08:23 PM

Sorry... double post!

**GrhmLz** · 09-21-2007, 08:29 PM

lol, Oh man!

And, please excuse me, but my sardonic laughing is not directed at this horrific tale of physical and sexual assault but at the irony that I read this after debating the relevance of sexual history of rape victims in a criminal trial on another thread.

Now, this is a clear cut example when you want to shout out ... Innocent until proven guilty my a**! With all the physical evidence and eye-witness accounts from the police, I dare the defense attorneys of these defendants to attack this poor woman's credibility or sexual history in order to call her a liar! Sorry, but it's cases like these that make your blood boil because you know the defendants did the crime but the legal game is going to be played out anyway! Hopefully, this poor woman will be spared the agony of a trial, and these defendants will take some form of a guilty plea!

I pray this poor woman recovers both physically and emotionally along with receiving justice against her perpetrators. Thank God she was found. Those acts were repulsive and vile!


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