WEST COLUMBIA, W.Va. - A woman imprisoned for her role in the 2007 kidnapping and torture of a black woman by seven white men and women in West Virginia said yesterday that the victim wasn’t telling the truth when she denied this week that the attack occurred.
Frankie Brewster told WCHS-TV in Charleston that multiple crimes were committed against Megan Williams during the attack in rural Logan County, about 50 miles south of Charleston.
An attorney representing Williams said Wednesday that she is now recanting statements incriminating Brewster, her son Bobby, and five others.
All seven pleaded guilty and six are serving lengthy prison terms.
Williams originally said her captors, including boyfriend Bobby Brewster, beat her, raped her, poured hot wax on her and taunted her with racial slurs in a trailer
Brewster is rejecting Williams’s new version of events.
“It did happen,’’ Brewster said during the interview at the Lakin Correctional Center, where she is serving 10 to 25 years. “All of us participated.’’
Brewster denied that race or Williams’s relationship with her son started the series of crimes. Rather, she blamed a codefendant who accused Williams of stealing money and food stamps.
Brewster pleaded guilty to second-degree sexual assault in the case.
Brian Abraham, the Logan County prosecutor in 2007, also has dismissed Williams’s new story, saying the convictions were based on the defendants’ statements and physical evidence.
