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Article: Woman in W.Va. Torture Case Recovering
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- February 12, 2008
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A black woman who said she was held captive and tortured last summer is relieved that at least one of the seven people indicted in the case will be punished for a hate crime, her legal adviser said Monday.
Three people have pleaded guilty, including a white woman who was the only one indicted on a hate crime charge because authorities say she stabbed Megan Williams in the ankle while saying "This is what we do to n------ down here."
The Logan County prosecutor has said it would have been difficult to prove hate crimes were committed by the other defendants, even though they used the same racial slur.
Malik Shabazz, a co-founder of Washington, D.C.-based Black ...