Name: VIPPER 2008-06-03 1:32
The story line comes straight of Hollywood: Six sadistic individuals kidnap a West Virginia woman. They rape her, force her to eat rat and dog feces, make her drink from a toilet, stab her multiple times, and call her “nigger” every time they beat her.
No, this isn’t the storyline to “Silence of the Lambs” or a Morgan Freeman thriller. It is a true story.
Authorities in West Virginia have six whites in custody – and are searching for two others – in what is being described as a heinous hate crime.
Amazingly, a mother and her son, and a mother and her daughter, are among those arrested for their involvement in the case.
The 23-year-old woman was only saved when police received an anonymous tip, and saw the woman limp to the door pleading, “Help me!”
According to the Charleston Gazette, which published the story after the woman’s mother talked to them, they also doused the young woman with hot water while she was sexually assaulted.
"She wakes up in the middle of the night screaming, 'Mommy,"' the mother told the paper. "What's really bad is that we don't know everything they did to her. She is crying all the time."
Now what is amazing is that the charges filed against the six range from sexual assault and malicious wounding to kidnapping and giving false information during a felony investigation. They all have bond set at $100,000.
So six Black youths are involved a fight where a white teen was beaten unconscious – but went to a party later that night – and they were hit with attempted murder charges in Jena, La.
Those young men faced life in prison before the charges were reduced.
So is this what they mean when they say justice is supposed to be blind?
-- September 11, 2007.
No, this isn’t the storyline to “Silence of the Lambs” or a Morgan Freeman thriller. It is a true story.
Authorities in West Virginia have six whites in custody – and are searching for two others – in what is being described as a heinous hate crime.
Amazingly, a mother and her son, and a mother and her daughter, are among those arrested for their involvement in the case.
The 23-year-old woman was only saved when police received an anonymous tip, and saw the woman limp to the door pleading, “Help me!”
According to the Charleston Gazette, which published the story after the woman’s mother talked to them, they also doused the young woman with hot water while she was sexually assaulted.
"She wakes up in the middle of the night screaming, 'Mommy,"' the mother told the paper. "What's really bad is that we don't know everything they did to her. She is crying all the time."
Now what is amazing is that the charges filed against the six range from sexual assault and malicious wounding to kidnapping and giving false information during a felony investigation. They all have bond set at $100,000.
So six Black youths are involved a fight where a white teen was beaten unconscious – but went to a party later that night – and they were hit with attempted murder charges in Jena, La.
Those young men faced life in prison before the charges were reduced.
So is this what they mean when they say justice is supposed to be blind?
-- September 11, 2007.