This story has been kicking around today and I’ve hesitated posting anything as I honestly don’t know what to think, here’s the gist…
Megan Williams to recant Logan County sex-torture testimony
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Seven people pleaded guilty for their part in abusing Megan Williams — but now Williams says that abuse never happened.
She will hold a press conference Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio, to recant her claims of abuse, attorney Byron L. Potts, who represents Williams, told The Charleston Gazette on Tuesday night.
“She has decided she has been living this lie for approximately two years and she has decided to tell the truth,” Potts said. “She fabricated the story and she did this in retaliation because she was having a relationship with one of them.”
But former Logan County prosecutor Brian Abraham, who was in charge of the case, said no one ever went to jail because of Williams’ statements.
Instead, Abraham said Tuesday night, he decided early in the case not to rely on Williams’ statements, but on the physical evidence and the statements of the co-defendants.
“It’s ironic to me that today she’s saying she made all this up. At the time she was criticizing me for offering them plea agreements,” Abraham said.
“This isn’t to rejuvenate her 15 minutes of fame, but to regurgitate her 15 minutes of fame. Is she proposing to give back all the donations she got?”
State Police found Williams at the mobile home of Bobby Brewster and his mother, Frankie Brewster, on Sept. 8, 2007. She was in a relationship with Brewster.
According to the admissions of those eventually convicted, Williams was physically and sexually abused. She was beaten repeatedly, held against her will, burned with hot wax, stabbed in the leg, and forced to perform oral sex on at least two defendants.
“Each of them made statements incriminating themselves and others. When you sat back and looked at it in its entirety, there was a pretty clear picture of what had taken place,” Abraham said.
“As she got hooked up with her family and with additional handlers joined in, she continued to embellish. But we had her original statements that she gave. For the most part, they were consistent with what the co-defendants said happened.”
The Brewsters and Logan County residents George Messer, Alisha Burton, Karen Burton, Linnie Burton Jr. and Danny Combs each plead guilty to crimes for abusing Williams. The crimes ranged from simple battery to kidnapping, sexual assault and one hate crime charge.
Burton pleaded guilty to a hate crime charge for stabbing Williams in the ankle while saying, “This is what we do to niggers around here.”
Makes no sense to me, I think she’s lying, but why for goodness sake would the perps plead guilty to charges that would put them away for quite a few years? Something stinks here, I will keep a weather eye out on this story please let me know if you hear anything.
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CofCC is running hog wild with this story here, here and here.
All I can say is I’ve been around long enough to know a ‘wait and see’ story when I see one. Something smells hinky about this one. CofCC might be absolutely right that these folks were suborned into incriminating themselves, but I’m not buying yet. In fact the only thing that mitigates in the direction of believing this story is the vast number of racial “hate crime” type hoaxes that have been perpetrated in this country by Blacks.
James Edwards: But this one’s two years old, and the black woman who lied about white people terrorizing her is now admitting she lied. But prosecutors don’t want to hear it; they say the white “criminals” can rot in prison for all they care.
