UPDATE: Torture In Logan County, West Virginia
MEGAN WILLIAMS TO RECANT LOGAN COUNTY SEX TORTURE TESTIMONY
Gary A. Harki, The Charleston (WV) Gazette
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.”
At the time of the plea deals, Megan Williams, her adopted mother Carmen Williams, and her adviser Malik Shabazz criticized the plea agreements, claiming they were too light a punishment. Shabazz, co-founder of Black Lawyers for Justice and a member of the New Black Panther Party, gave Williams and her family legal counsel.
The Williams family, Shabazz and others criticized Abraham for only pursuing a hate crime charge for Burton.
Now Williams claims she wasn’t abused at all, Potts said.
“They did plead guilty, I don’t know why,” he said of the defendants. “This is what she’s telling me.”
Potts said he contacted current Logan County Prosecutor John Bennett to tell him Williams was recanting her testimony. The prosecutor gave Potts contact information for the lawyers of the defendants. Potts said he plans to contact each of them.
“It sounds to me that there are innocent people held in jail for something they did not do,” Potts said. “I have no idea what convinced them to plead guilty.”
He said Williams knows that by recanting her testimony, she could be prosecuted for lying about the incident.
“She still wants to come forward. She’s been fully advised that she could potentially be charged and end up in the penitentiary herself,” he said.
Potts said Megan Williams was manipulated by Carmen Williams and others after she was found at the Brewster home. Carmen Williams has since died. Megan’s adoptive father, Matthew Williams, could not be reached late Tuesday.
“I know for a fact she has been manipulated,” Potts said. “People raised money for her, she never received that money.”
Abraham also believes Williams has been manipulated.
Six days after Williams was found, Abraham met with NAACP and black church leaders to discuss hate-crime charges in the case.
“I remember specifically telling them, ‘Look fellas, be careful how far you go out on this limb, you may get sawed off. Be careful of what she’s saying and what her family is saying,’” Abraham said.
You have to pay close attention to what Mr. Abraham, the prosecutor who originally handled this case says about Megan Williams and about the defendants. I’ll keep my opinion to myself for the time being, and watch as you guys make your own minds up about what’s going on here, but it’s clear that if you don’t at least do this you’ll never get the full story.
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WTF!? Something stinks really bad here. Waiting to see what everyone else thinks.
I was born in Logan, West Virginia. Spent the first part of my life there. I still have family that lives there. Its a small God-fearing place, for the most part. When this story broke a couple years ago, I was shocked. It all seemed a little far fetched at the time. Now that this young woman has come forward, I’ve had to re-examine my feelings from then. The shock I first felt was most likely just some sense of “this couldn’t happen where I grew up”. Time has passed, and shock has passed and I realize that it doesn’t matter where you are or where you go; evil exists everywhere.
Are these people guilty? Yes, most likely.
I respect the fact that the Prosecuting Attorney recognized that she was an unreliable witness and that no one was sent to jail based on her testimony.
Also, I find it telling that her attorney said, “She’s been fully advised that she could potentially be charged and end up in the penitentiary herself.” To me, that tells me the attorney doesn’t believe her change of story and thinks she is lying again.
As described in the news article I read yesterday and this article written by Max, I think the defendants are guilty and that justice was served in this case. Apparently, their statements matched the victim’s original statement.
My understanding is that Megan is developmentally challenged. I believe that is the reason that the prosecution didn’t plan to even USE her testimony had the case gone to court. Instead, they relied on physical evidence.
My point here is – even if Megan was “willing” to be beaten, burned and used as a sex toy, she is not necessarily legally capable of forming that consent.
The scumball family pled guilty because they DID the things they were accused of, and they all pointed the finger at the others as the main instigators – thus implicating themselves.
Now, WHY is Megan doing this? There are a bunch of possibilities. First is that she has truly forgotten what happened. The brain is a funny thing, and time can either soften or harden images. It is possible that Megan has decided that the situation wasn’t so bad – and that she liked the part of the situation that included having a “boyfriend” (I think that was Bobby Brewster). The developmental challenges she has could certainly impact this recall.
It’s also possible that she is being manipulated. The “race hustlers” jumped into this case early on and no one is better at taking advantage of people than the race hustlers. It is entirely possible that she has been convinced that recanting will somehow benefit her, while her “lawyer” Shabazz is just trying to get his name in the forefront again.
It wouldn’t surprise me, even a tiny bit, to find out that there is a scheme to free the Brewsters, have them sue the state, and split the money with Williams, or something like that. All of these people are basically lowlifes, including (sorry to say) the victim. Not that victimizing lowlifes is OK, but you know the saying – “when you lay down with dogs, don’t be surprised when you get fleas”.
Anyway, the Brewsters and Burtons et.al. are where they belong – in jail. They did what they are accused of. They admitted it. The only question is how the victim felt about it, and we don’t decide criminal behavior based on the victims “feelings”. We base it on the law, and clearly the participants broke the law. Not to mention, they were just generally disgusting people.
I’m not sure if anyone here follows people getting exonerated, but as someone living in Texas, in which Dallas County has the highest post conviction turnover rate in the nation now with 20, some people do plead guilty even when they are innocent hoping to someday see the light of day because they don’t think they otherwise have a shot at it. We all know pleading not guilty doesn’t make it true and with all of the exonerations in Texas and many other states, pleading guilty doesn’t make it true either. I have no idea if these people are guilty or innocent, I wasn’t there. The cops could have fed each of them information saying the other one said it, in essence giving all of them the evidence that they hung themselves with. If they all blamed it on the other, no one actually admitted they DID it themselves. I’m sure a lot of people thought the Duke University boys were guilty too because of what their accuser said, but as it turned out, that was not true. I have no idea what any lawyer or this girl would have to gain by coming forward and recanting everything. It doesn’t make her previous lawyer or her look good. We live in a society where we are suppossed to believe in cops and the justice system, unfortunately they don’t always play the rules and have tunnel vision when they DECIDE what happened. In my opinion, if she recants and says nothing happened, these people at the very least deserve a chance to go to trial and plead their case. I don’t know what it would be like to be arrested, told I did horrendous things, told that my life was over and I would never see the light of day or be able to hug my family again unless I pleaded guilty, all of this probably afters hours and hours of questioning. Cops are ALLOWED to lie to the people they are interogating in an attempt to get the truth. Maybe they aren’t always open minded enough to FIND the truth.
Please don’t think I am just some bleeding heart liberal. If you have ever watched Dallas DNA on the Discovery Channel and seen people who have spent 10-25 years in prison for something they DID NOT DO finally get free, some who did plead guilty on a plea deal, you should see what these people and their families have gone through. Some do turn out to be guilty, but some do not.
I don’t think you are a bleeding heart – and I agree 100% that it happens. Innocent people DO plead guilty when the evidence is overwhelming, if they are mentally browbeaten, or to prevent a much worse possible sentence.
However – I have watched this particular case from the very beginning. I have a pretty good background knowledge of the participants, including the arrest histories of the perpetrators and the evidence of the crime. So what I wrote was not based on generalities of the weaknesses of our judicial system, but on the specifics of this case.
Authorities actually FOUND this girl in the trailer where she was being held. She was injured and terrified. She told them, immediately, what had happened to her and the evidence was there. This is why the scumballs talked, and they DID implicate themselves – they just tried to push the worst stuff off to the others. I truly don’t believe that she was capable of making up the stories – she is almost retarded. Which is really why the authorities planned to NOT use her testimony to prosecute.
When Megan was found, she had the injuries that supported her story. She had been stabbed, she had scars on her neck from the choking, her arm was broken, she was missing chunks of hair, her ankle was cut and there were signs consistent with sexual trauma. So, there is little doubt that SOMETHING happened to her. Whether she was forced to eat feces or they called her racially obnoxious names or not is not provable, but that someone HURT her – badly – is.
Her story changed after she was released from the hospital and the race-hustlers got ahold of her. Her stories got wilder and more racially-motivated. She became a cause celebre’ for screams of “hate crimes” when the authorities couldn’t support those charges. People who didn’t understand what hate crimes are (legally) saw it only as “white on black” crime and were vocal about the racial bias that they imagined over the case.
So, while in general, your assessment is correct, and people can plead guilty when they are in fact innocent, I don’t believe that is the case here. These sicko’s are a bunch of drug-addled, perverted, human viruses.
I can’t help but feel that this girl is being used (again) in the worst possible way. SOMEONE is manipulating her, and I am sure that whoever it is doesn’t give a crap about her. It’s sick, and disturbing.
This looks to me like a case of Victim’s Guilt.
The example I remember of Victim’s guilt (called something else later in this ramble) was this.
A dog is raised in a cage, with food, water and a blanket. On Mondays the dog is shocked with an electrical discharge device. On Tuesday it gets fed double, on Wednesday it is shocked and its blanket is taken away. On Thursday it is shocked and gets double food and on Friday it is fed a normal portion and the blanket is returned. Saturday and Sunday are just feeding days, but this cycle continues on and on and on.
Then one Monday, the dog does not get shocked. The dog whimpers awaiting the shock. On Tuesday it gets a normal feeding. The dog whimpers. On Wednesday it does not get shocked, but strangely it purposefully avoids its blanket on Wednesday and tries to hide it on Thursday and again whimpers when it gets a normal allotment of food. By Friday the dog is a nervous wreck. When the regular schedule commences on Monday shocks and all, and the dog is comforted by the schedule.
Stockholm syndrome doesn’t describe all of the conditioned responses the poor animal above, tortured in the late 60’s as part of a behavioral study faced, but instead is the human concept for this. Here’s this emotionally handicapped woman, and she suffers from a brutal series of sexual humiliations. Then she’s in the public eye, receiving supportive comments, donations and other attention based actions because her story is no longer in the news. The attention is something she’s conditioned herself to use to cope with her abuse. She needs the attention to hide from what happened or even worse, may need it to flagellate herself to punish her for what happened. Literally she’s ready to “hide the blanket” so she can “get the extra food.” Maybe she even thinks her old “friends” will get out of jail and “reward” her for helping them escape. There’s a horror story in here somewhere beyond the actual events that led up to this, that lead into the very broken person left behind.
Jason – your dog story is similar to the classic study done by Martin Seligman in the 1960’s. He found that dogs who were subjected to electric shocks did note even try to escape when they were later given the opportunity. They just laid where they were and whimpered. This phenomenon is called “learned helplessness”, and you are absolutely correct in applying it to this case.
This learned condition explains a lot of human tendency to accept horrible conditions (why women stay with abusers, why some people are always having bad shit happen to them, etc). Megan is very likely someone who has learned to accept abuse, and thus has no internal mechanism to prevent it.
If I’m not mistaken the case I was talking about was one of Seligman’s studies… heck, he’s still alive, maybe he’d like to comment on this case.
Wow i hope they keep these sick people in jail.We all know that its not normal in the first place for all these people to even be in the same room when a sex act went on.So that tells you they raped that poor girl she didint know what to do because she is developmentaly challenged so yes they did that to this girl and thought because of her sickness they could get away with it but im glad they didint.Thats why they pleaded guilty my god people you know that your gonna plead not guilty even if you are guilty that goes to show ya they flat out pleaded guilty because they was caught and they knew it so they pleaded guilty. good work to the one who put these sick trailer trash people behind bars.
This is going to cause people to question others that have been abused. I think it DID happen and she is recanting out of fear or she is just that sick.
The logan inbreeds have all confessed. They did it.
Unlike the Duke case in which everything was denied.
Is it possible that she is still being harassed and having problems carrying on a normal life and thinks that if she recants she will be able to have a normal life. I don’t remember the original story (which bothers me a bit considering I live about an hour away, but if the co-defendents told their own story and it matched her story, that in itself seems prety concrete.
I think they actually tortured her. I think she wants attention and her boyfriend back. I think that no one in their right mind confesses to the police that they did something that they did not do and will be sent to jail for a very long time for, even if they find out that other people have implicated them in the imaginary act.
This is my personal opinion and obviously may or may not be correct. If someone accused me of a murder or assault that did not happen, I cannot imagine a scenario in which I would confess, even if food, water and sleep were withheld from me.
Maybe someone else knows a little bit more about this and can possibly enlighten me but does hypnotherapy work the same on someone considered mentally challenged as it does on “normal” people? Is this something they could possibly try with her?
During my Master’s program in Psych, I had a semester of Clinical Hypnosis. I learned that a level of focus is required for hypnosis to be effective, so I don’t think it would be effective with limited mental capabilities.
Also, hypnosis is a nebulous thing, not a photocopy of what happened. The brain stores memories in different ways and funneled through tons of emotions and senses. So, hypnosis isn’t a great way to recall the past–too much interpretation occurs.
Thirdly, the brain doesn’t differentiate between a vividly imagined event and a real event.
So, I don’t think it would be of any use n this case.
A person of full mental and emotional capabilities would find it hard to deal with the pressure and most likely harassment currently swirling around this woman, let alone someone of diminished capacity. I don’t buy the recant.
They did it. I realize that some people confess that are not quilty, but SIX people??? They all told the same story. Plus, she was rescued from the residence.
Wow. OK. At first I was wondering if this was WTF night at PYSIH and no one told me…first the unintelligible hate (???) mail and now this.
Max said:
“You have to pay close attention to what Mr. Abraham, the prosecutor who originally handled this case says about Megan Williams and about the defendants.”
All right. I watched the video twice and paid close attention. I see a man who prosecuted this case and is intimately familiar with the evidence of the crimes. I see him making confident, unequivocal and unambiguous statements about it and those involved. I see that he is not swayed in the least by the victim’s recantation.
“I’ll keep my opinion to myself for the time being…”
Why? Do you have some secret knowledge about it that’s going to surprise us all? Now I’m really curious what you do think!
“…and watch as you guys make your own minds up about what’s going on here, but it’s clear that if you don’t at least do this you’ll never get the full story.”
Well, this made me do a bit of Googling so I could read more about it and try to understand as much as possible before commenting on it. We who were not personally involved can never really “get the full story”, but what I did see and read elsewhere makes me form the opinion that Megan Williams WAS tortured and brutalized by these sick pieces of shit. The stories all matched up, and they confessed to the crimes they were charged with. There was enough tangible physical evidence to bring them to trial, and that evidence caused them to be convicted by more than one jury even without Megan Williams’ testimony.
There could be several reasons why she is now recanting her story even after the defendants were proven guilty at trial. Perhaps someone is manipulating her and pressuring her to do this for media attention. Maybe there is someone threatening her and she is doing this out of fear for her life. Maybe she’s insane.
I wonder if we will ever find out what the truth really is. As it stands now, she’s going to have to work a miracle to get back any shred of credibility she once had.
Yeah, the 7 defendants from the original case are exactly where they belong. That seems pretty clear to me. The DA recognized early on that Megan Williams was a little “off” and was not going to make a reliable witness, and if he couldn’t make his case against these asshats without her he would have to let them go. People like her adviser Malik Shabazz, her family, that race baiter Al Sharpton and the NAACP all had a hand in manipulating a very suggestible girl into embellishing her story, and they nearly blew the case – and then had the balls to criticize The Logan County DA’s Office for making plea deals with the 7 defendants. I wonder how these people feel about it now? I know Sharpton couldn’t wait to distance himself from the pack by calling for an investigation and immediate charges if any wrongdoing is found.
This whole case has made me sick from day one, especially as the usual suspects changed it from a case of the rape and torture of a young, helpless mentally challenged girl to a case of the rape and torture of a BLACK girl. Racism is a two way street, and the Megan Williams story is a perfect example of that. Today, thanks to Shabeez, Sharpton, the 7 defendants, the NAACP & the Williams Family, there a little less racial harmony in the world.
“Racism is a two way street …”
Amen to that. I think that is what sickens me the most about this story; people playing the race card at our expense. It just makes this country even more bipolar, with whites and blacks having an increasing amount of difficulty interacting with one another. The ‘white man’s burden’ nowadays seems to be that our forebears color-coded the entire world and now we have to suffer the consequences.
If you google “megan williams pics” you will see pictures of a girl who clearly looks a little off and some pics of her wounds. Something is definately not right here and hopefully someone will step in on this girl’s behalf because it seems like she is absolutely being manipulated. This is one to watch…
This kind of shit could keep real victims from coming forward.
I hope that this “sheboon” gets a lot of time for this. I use the term sheboon because she lied and because of that 6 people pled out and went to prison. So I have to use the most hate filled term I can that can be used without pissing to many off. Not that I care what others think.
This case is not like Tawana Brawley or the Duke University cases where there was no evidence of a crime except the words of the so-called “victim”.
There is something weird going on here, but this girl was abused – no doubt. She is recanting for some other reason – not because the story was a lie. She (or rather her lawyer – she did not speak at the news conference) claims that she inflicted her wounds herself, to make it look like she was abused.
That’s pretty far fetched. She stabbed herself, tore chunks of her hair out, strangled herself, sexually abused herself and broke her own arm in 3 places – just to get even with her boyfriend? And, lets not forget this – the way she was rescued was because a neighbor heard her screaming from the shed she was being held in and called police. That’s a pretty big risk – to damned near kill yourself and HOPE that someone will hear you and call the cops.
According to a reporter in Charleston WV, a few months ago, Megan Williams made a youtube video talking about how all these terrible things had happened to her and how she no longer had any money, and she was begging for donations. That video has since been taken down, but it certainly seems relevant in this case.
As for your choice of hate-filled words, I had to look it up, but I don’t think you are using that offensive term properly. You might want to look it up – it means a particular type of stereotyped black woman, and Megan Williams does not fit that stereotype. At least if you are going to use racial slurs, you should know what they mean.Using them at all makes you look ignorant, but using them incorrectly makes you look like a complete moron.
I have see a man punches himself in the face over 30 times to try to put me in jail because he wasn’t getting his own way. His face was swollen over 4 inc out.
I have see another man whom I was trying to leave after he abuse me, grap a knife and stuck it in my hand and squeeze my hand over the knife and try to get me to stapp him (I figure out that he didnt’ want to go to jail for abusing me so he rather have a stapp wound and claim that those marks he put on me is self defense). He was bigger and I can’t get my hand out of the knife. I have to clam him down and told him that I wasn’t going to turn him in to the cop so he let me go.
I also have an ex boy friend (I was 18) use a small knife and write my name on his chest with the knife, after I broke up with him.
I don’t very know what this lady got going on, but when love and emotions are involved( In this case.. may be even drugs or mental illness) anything can happen. For her to speak out like this I think that we have to give a benefit of a doubt that she can have done somethings to herself but some may have been willingly involved with her and the others (such as sex).
Wow, girlfriend!
You date men who punch themselves in the face to incriminate you in assault…
Men who try to ‘force’ you to stab them in order to incriminate you in assault…
Men who carve your name in their chests to incriminate you for…?
Pretty odd to have been with at least 3 men hellbent on ‘incriminating’ you for things.
Didja ever think maybe you’ve been dating a whole lot of men who bizarrely have a preoccupation with incriminating you for things?
Because the alternative would be that you’re a liar, and you actually got yourself hooked up with violent, loser men in relationships where both of you were violent? Repeatedly. You might want to look into that.
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All of which is loopy, but none of which has anything to do with this story, unless each of those accusations ended with you admitting to those assaults and going to prison.
Somehow you missed the very key to this whole fiasco, which is that the victim’s statements were NOT what was used to convict. If she’d have been a deaf, mute, blind person, the physical evidence AND the perps own admission of guilt would still have gotten them where they belong now. In fact, the Mama torturer (from prison) states the woman is now lying, and that they DID do all of those things to her.
Why would a convicted perp not jump at the chance to skip prison? What reason would she have not to claim her guilty plea was forced? I’m guessing lack of drugs in prison might have cleared her head a bit about the abuses they subjected the girl to.
Looking at the pix again- I’m totally reminded of why they did not use the woman’s statements in the trial. She is quite obviously mentally impaired. That’s not the flu. It doesn’t ‘go away’. I’m surprised her attorney even agreed to allow her to make her ridiculous claims now. Other than it does prove she mentally incompetent.
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On a side note, you might want to put the crack pipe down and stop socializing with abusive, lowlife criminal men. You’d be surprised at how nice it is to hook up with a decent one. Plus, there’s a whole lot less ‘imaginary incriminating’ and a whole, whole lot less of the pesky baby-killing that goes on with men who aren’t total POSs.
Just sayin’.
c
nicely done
Innocent people plead guity all the time. When you have someone who inflicted or self-injured and try to get you send to prison. and there is evidence of abuse (eventho the self claim victim did all the self injured to her own body). You know you going down no matter what… You know the justice system in this country fails to do the right thing.. innocent people even get put to death in this country!. I’m the living prove of this. My husband is sick with Bi-polar and the doctor give him the wrong dose of medication. He call the police oneday and claims that I hit him 6 times and threaten to cut his private part off!. I didn’t. I was arrested and they were going to give me 6-9 months in jail. The evidence was on my husband face (which I find out later once he was on the correct doze of medication, that he hit himself). My lawyer told me that he can get me probation if I plead guilty for lesser charge. I did. I didn’t have any criminal records. I was a straight A student and on my last semester in College! I sit in Jail for 15 days, crying every mins because I don’t know why i was there and I miss my Son.. so much… I would plead guilty to anything to get out and be with my son. In jail, there were blood stain in bed sheet, the towel was suppose to be white but mostly black and smell like poop. I got sick of the food every day.. I have no doubt that this so call victim can easily plan the evidence and cause self injuries to herself. I know it can happen to anyone!
You need to really think about whether you want to use the whole ‘bi=polar’ excuse. The majority of people who have bi-polar and strike out when they are in a manic phase don’t have the thought processess to think up something like hitting themselves in the face. They are usually too busy hitting someone else in the face.
Your story makes no sense. You didn’t find out that your husband (and feel the need to point out that you don’t call him your ex) hit himself in the face until his meds were adjusted? Did you really think you’d done it? And him being bi=polar and all that didn’t come up at all?
Sorry, I’m going to call BS. You should have been the one to call the police, not him, if he was acting all cooky like you claim. It isn’t safe to leave bi-polar undermedicated around children we claim to love.
And I doubt many people on here will sympathize with agreeing to lesser pleas of things we DID NOT DO, unless it’s to get out of paying bigtime for what we really did. For example- I would NEVER have admitted guilt for a lesser plea for something I simply DID NOT do. I’d have taken the longer jailtime if my atty was so incompetent that I was charged with crimes I did not commit. I would maintain my innocence the entire time.
But, you’re claiming you only plead guilty to get a lighter sentence? For your son? So who was taking care of your son while you were pleading out? Bi-polar daddy?
Your story does not ring true for a second. Sorry. I’m going to guess it wasn’t the first time the police were called to your house.
c
Wow, I’m sorry your stay in jail didn’t live up to your housecleaning standards.
Probably a pretty good reason to stay away from the kinds of people who you’ll have a tussle with and end up there because of.
c
all parties are walking, talking stereotypes. let’s take this out of the courts and send it to the ASPCA.
This whole situation is weird. I normally am not the type to “jump on the rape bandwagon”, but I really believed this girl. If she was lying, she should be charged. I am tired of these girls lying about being raped. The Duke Lacrosse case, Tawanna Brawley(complete travesty of justice), that chick from hofstra univ., etc. These girls don’t realze that because THEY lie, real victims aren’t believed or never come forward for fear of being called a liar. Ladies, if you are gonna be a hoe, be a hoe, but don’t lie on innocent people. If Megan Williams lied, she needs to pay back every cent she recieved and serve a hefty prison sentence.
It’s pretty obvious is it not? The six confessed to it all…i mean SIX!!
i reckon it did happen…and they’re all GUILTY as hell… Williams is just messed up and any minute from NOW she’ll change her story again. These buggers need to GO to jail asap..
You’re missing all the crazy-logic!
Crazy-logic says…. See! Six innocent people forced to admit guilt! That just proves how often it happens!
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On a more rational note, it just goes to show that when dealing with a mentally compromised individual, the best court tactic is physical evidence, not their statements.
c
I know that mug shots do dont do justice for some but .. blehhhhh! eww!
I sort of remember hearing about this one. This story is very strange. I wonder if there is the possibility that somehow she is being threatened into recanting her story. Why now? If it really wasn’t true why would she, in fact, why would anyone wait more than two years to say something? It just seems to me that there is something underlying here that none of us know. Mental instability? Most definitely possible. However, there was physical evidence showing that at least some of what this girl and “the Logan 6″ said really did happen to her. And ALL of these people admitted that they did it. Something just isn’t stirring the kool-aid here.
With the cops showing up while she was still bound in the trailer, there is no way this did not happen.
I think the DA did the best he could under the circumstances, and has an air tight case.
I just wonder who is trying to make her change her mind?
Slightly off-topic question but the comments here made me think of it.
I watched a doco on a case where a woman was murdered on/near a naval base in the US and the coppers picked up her neighbour who was a sailor. He confessed after “extended questioning” but then the DNA didn’t match … after further “questioning” he implicated another man.
Same deal … after extended questioning he confessed, giving a different story to the first guy. When the DNA didn’t match him either he implicated two others.
This went on until about 6 men had “confessed” to the rape/murder .. however none of their DNA matched. When the real perp was finally caught and confessed he claims he was on his own and had never heard of these others (all of who almost immediately recanted their confessions). Prosecutors went ahead and got convictions on all of them.
Is anyone familiar with the case and able to send me a link to some info … it was damned interesting but I can;t dig up anything on it because I can’t recall any of the names.
Answered my own question ….
http://www.norfolkfour.com
To be quite clear .. I don’t think anything like this happened to the “Logan Six” – it’s just that the discussion reminded me of this case.
Seriously think that the prosecturos and police on the Norfolk case almost rate a mention here though ….