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Article: W.Va. Woman Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime
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- February 7, 2008
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A white woman pleaded guilty to a hate crime and other charges Thursday in the kidnapping and torture of a black woman who authorities say was held captive for days last summer.
Authorities say Karen Burton's crimes include stabbing Megan Williams in the ankle while saying, "This is what we do to n------ down here." She is the third in a group of seven people charged to plead guilty in the case, and the only one charged with a hate crime.
Burton does not remember much of the abuses against Williams, but she does not deny them, her lawyer Betty Gregory said.
Burton, 46, of Chapmanville, pleaded guilty in Logan County Circuit Court to malicious wounding, ...