There is finally some more news out of the Megan Williams story. Thanks, Trench!
If you remember, Megan Williams was the black girlfriend of a white man that was accused, along with 5 others, of kidnapping and torturing her in a West Virginia trailer. The story prompted cries of racism and demands for hate crimes trials. I wrote about it previously here.
Megan was tortured all right. Tortured by love!
Now Christie Messer, the woman who told the police about Megan Williams’ situation, and is also the sister of one of the kidnappers, George Messer, is speaking out about what happened. And its a bizarre tale of a love affair that is fit for a Jerry Springer show. According to Messer, Megan Williams was given many chances to leave the Brewsters’ trailer. But she wanted to stay because she loved Bobby Brewster.
From the Daily Mail here:
The day before police found Megan Williams, she was given an opportunity to leave her captors. Christie Messer said she told an officer about the 20-year-old’s captivity after trying to get Williams to safety.
She is the sister of George Messer, one of the six accused of crimes against Williams.
Christie Messer said she visited her brother on Friday, Sept. 7, at his trailer in Big Ugly. He had recently reunited with his girlfriend, Alisha Burton, and moved out of the Brewster trailer.
It was there that Christie Messer says she found Megan Williams in a back bedroom, eating macaroni out of a bowl on the floor.
Williams was in black lingerie, with cuts on her body that were clearly infected.
Christie Messer said she let Williams out of the bedroom. She gave her the keys to her car and told her to go to the car, but Williams refused to leave, she said.
“She said, ‘I don’t want to go. I love Bobby [Brewster].’
Messer said she told Megan she needed to go to the hospital to get treatment for the cuts on her leg.
Messer said she told her brother to take Megan back to the Brewster trailer in Big Creek and she would bring the girl antibiotics.
On her way to the trailer she stopped and saw a deputy she knew, Michael Sutherland, and told him about what had been happening to Williams.
“He told me not to worry, that they would get a few guys together and go get her,” Christie Messer said. Police arrived a short time later, she said.
It had been previously reported that Williams was undergoing torture for at least a week. This is not true. Williams had been putting up with abuse for over two months prior to her rescue from the Brewsters’ trailer.
On July 9, Trooper T.L. Toney and another trooper were dispatched to the Brewster trailer. Frankie Brewster called and said Williams refused to leave, Toney said.
The troopers spoke with both Frankie Brewster and Williams and everyone agreed that she would gather her clothes and leave, Toney said. Megan was told that if she did not leave or if she came back, charges could be filed against her.
Toney said Williams had no marks or indications of abuse when he saw her.
On July 18, Bobby Ray Brewster was charged with domestic battery and domestic assault for allegedly striking and verbally threatening Williams at the Big Creek trailer where she was eventually tortured.
On July 21st, Williams was back at the trailer, Christie Messer said.
Messer said that, according to her brother, the first night back in the trailer was when Williams was forced to eat dog and rat feces and to lick parts of Frankie Brewster’s body.
“Bobby was mad about the [domestic violence petition] and they were just being mean to her. He [Bobby Brewster] said it was because she had him put in jail … and because his mom had to pay $300 to get him out of jail.”
Williams was stabbed on Aug. 17, Christie Messer said. She knows the exact date because she has had to go over the details with investigators, she said. Messer said she doesn’t believe Williams was stabbed repeatedly.
“I guess it’s been going on for months. They would get drunk and do stuff to her and the next day everything would be OK,” Christie Messer said.
I am having a really tough time wrapping my head around Megan Williams’ insistence on staying with Bobby Brewster and his abusive circle of freaky friends and family. But its becoming apparent that she could have left her situation, and in fact, was urged to- first by police under threat of arrest, and then by Messer. Some have suggested that she was mentally disabled. But what kind of retarded love would make a woman eat feces, have oral sex with her boyfriend’s mom and then refuse a trip to the hospital to treat an infected wound?
And now Megan Williams has teamed up with a hate group, the New Black Panthers, led by Malik Shabbaz. The New Black Panthers are still trying to pass off this incident as a hate crime, and are marching to raise money for Megan Williams. That the Williams’ embraced Shabbaz and his hateful band of racist merry men only adds fuel to the fire that inflames this ridiculous story.
how do rednecks do it? I dont get it… they beat their women and the dumb bitches keep coming back. is there a trick to this or something ?
I’m going out on a limb here, and I am probably not wrong. Free beer, liquor and drugs. In that order.
yeah, in this case. but a lot of them have drug free women who are beaten and they still go “I cant leave him, I love him and he loves me. Oh this? I walked into a door”
Come on this is a crazy version to get their family off. After they did all that you really think they was going to let her leave. Its something called evidenceand it can tell what happened really not just somebodys sister trying to get her family off with a lighter sentence. If she really was trying to help she could have called the police earlier. Dont try to act like a saint now because it sounds fishy.
I can see alot of women have stayed with men who beat them. Everyone knows someone who stays with a man that does their friend wrong maybe not as bad as this situation but abuse is abuse mentally or physically.The way they keep the women is by saying they are going to harm their family.
“what kind of retarded love would make a woman eat feces, have oral sex with her boyfriend’s mom and then refuse a trip to the hospital to treat an infected wound?”
I guess you have never heard of hardcore dominance/submission. I don’t mean those twinkle-toed fairies playing dress-up in the “BDSM community” either.
Djaran,
Yeah, of course I doubt the full story of this woman, who in my opinion, should be charged as an accomplice. But she wasn’t charged because she cooperated with the police. She also wasn’t charged because her story likely checked out to be mostly true, at least as far as the timeline goes.
But the police told her not to go to the trailer or she would be arrested. She went back anyways. She’s not too keen on her own safety, that’s for sure.
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No I wasn’t charged as an accomplice because I had nothig to do with the torture. I notified the police the very next morning, after finding her. I don’t believe my brother should “get off”. He is as guilty as the rest of them. I only contacted the press, so that a few of the facts would get straightened out. The victims mother was thanking the guy that brought Megan to Logan, for her rescue. I felt that she should know the truth. Megan’s mother is no saint. In July when the police tried to force Megan to go home, her mother told them to put her in a homeless shelter because she and her husband could not handle her at home, she said “she was too much trouble”. I have proof to back up everything that I have told. Even though my children and I have been going through pure hell since this has happened, I am glad that I did what I did. I feel that God will reward me someday, so maybe all the bad press and aggravation will have been worth it.
Christie,
Thanks so much for commenting. As someone so close to the issue, can you clear up some points of confusion? Is Megan Williams mildly retarded? And why did she insist on hanging around at the trailer?
I think she had ADHD. My thoughts on her decision (which probably aren’t the actual reason) to stay with Bobby is because first she had warrants out for her and secondly, her mother wouldnn’t let her come home.
Christie Messer, my only thing to you is why did you wait until morning to let the authorities know and why here are you calling it torture, before it looked like you were calling it like she wanted to stay. You know that girl was not right-bright and should have called the cops long time ago, because you said it your self the family is f*^%#ed up. I mean no harm, but people need to be more real. If what you said is true about the mother, wanting to place her in a homeless shelter is true, then she has a problem too. If you know the girl has mental issues, why the hell do you think a shelter is ok. I personally feel she has more problems than just ADHD. One more thing how the hell do you know so much about the past relationship of this girl with Brewster and her mom??? I think you should have been further investigated as an accomplice.
Stockholm Syndrome. Classic case.
Hellztano,
You may be right, but this would be an extreme example.
[...] But she was in an abusive relationship for sure, and had been warned by the police to stop coming around the trailer. Even Christie Messer, the sister of the alleged kidnapper, had tried to convince Megan to stop coming to the trailer when she was found eating mac and cheese out of a bowl on the floor. She insisted on staying because she loved Bobby Brewster. [...]