The Last of the Racist Rape-Torture Gang Pleads Guilty

Posted Sept. 29, 2008 – The last of six White West Virginians accused of kidnapping, raping and torturing a 20-year-old Black woman last year has pleaded guilty. On Friday, Danny J. Combs, pictured above, followed the five other defendants, which included a mother-daughter and mother-son pair, admitting his role in one of the most heinous racial crimes in modern history. The case not only shined a spotlight on the backwardness of back-woods West Virginia, but it amplified the vicious racial division that still exists in America some 40 years after the Civil Rights Era.
The 20-year-old Combs, of Harts, a rural town just southwest of Charleston, pleaded guilty in a county court in Logan, W.Va., to first-degree sexual assault, assault during the commission of a felony and conspiracy to commit kidnapping.

The victim, Megan Williams, pictured above, told authorities last September that her captors lured her to a mobile home in a remote West Virginia town, where they beat her, stabbed her, sexually assaulted her and forced her at knifepoint to eat dog and rat feces while calling her racial slurs.

“This is what we do to ni**ergs down here in West Virginia,” Williams said she was told by one of her abusers during the ordeal. Although several in the group hurled racist epithets, only one, Karen Burton, 46, was charged with a hate crime. Burton acknowledged making racist remarks and stabbing Williams in the ankle. Williams has told police that Combs was the one who made her eat excrement and raped her at knifepoint.

Sexual assault victims are usually not identified in news reports, but Williams decided to take her case public, giving interviews and making television appearances to speak out about her saga and to demand that the six assaulters face additional charges of committing a hate crime. Williams is fortunate to be alive.

Acting on an anonymous phone call last year, sheriff’s deputies showed up at the trailer home in the rural community of Big Creek, W.V., where the torture took place. When the deputies arrived, Karen Burton answered the door and quickly assured them that everything was OK. However, a bloodied, battered and weak Williams stumbled to the door and gasped, “Help me.”

Williams, who has said she still suffers nightmares from the horrifying episode, later told authorities that her kidnappers had planned to kill her when they were through.

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Comment by ORANGE MOUND VET.AKA MR.22 SHOTS. on September 29, 2008 at 9:59pm: THEY NEED TO LET THEM CRACKER'S OFF IN THE SAME INTERSECTION WHERE DUDE HIT THAT WHITE BOY IN THE HEAD WITH THAT BRICK DURING THE L.A. RIOTS.......JANICE GIRL YOU GANGSTA AS HELL.......LMAO........

Comment by Reginald Bellamy on September 29, 2008 at 10:02pm: i hope he is killed and his children are raped at age 4

Comment by CHOPPA CITY DJS on September 30, 2008 at 12:44am: KILL THEM CRACKERS THEY DO IT TO US EVERYDAY GIVE HIS ASS THE CHAIR

Comment by kiemahluv on September 30, 2008 at 7:11am: Kill all the white muthafuckas

Comment by kiemahluv on September 30, 2008 at 7:13am: Kill all them Cracker muthafuckas...........

Comment by killa on September 30, 2008 at 7:50am: this is what you do to niggas in west virginia well im from london and im a so called nigga and trust me i never heard of this story before but i will chase a cracker up and down the block tonight i will rape a white hoe and finally i will stab and rob a cracker for shit you being doing to us for way toooooooooooooooooooo long white trash i hate yall white faces white people are nasty these motherfuckers rape kids and shit fuck that you better believe my words white england

Comment by Tweezy on September 30, 2008 at 10:49am: OMG, they did her dirty as fucc......Shit like this makes me tight ..............Shit aint neva gonna change yall....Da world is gonna ge worst, dont u see its called white AMERICA......Fucc CraCCers, Fucc Uncle Sam whoever he is, damn cartoon....Its a crazy world, yeaaaaaaaaaa.....

Comment by da kizzle on September 30, 2008 at 11:07am: fuc deze bitch ass crackas dats why a nigga cnt neva foget dey history dzez fuck ass honkeys keep tryna fuck blacks all in da game but dem muthafuckas scared of u wen its jus u n dem jus look one of dey weak ass in da eyes wen dey walk pass u could see da fear deze crackas dnt wnt it wit black people