I read about this on Tuesday. 

Six Held In West Virginia Torture Horror

Cops: Black woman raped, beaten, abused during week-long captivity

SEPTEMBER 11--A black West Virginia woman was sexually assaulted, stabbed, and tortured while being held captive by her white abductors, one of whom told her, "That's what we do to niggers around here." The 23-year-old victim was freed Saturday after cops responded to the home of Frankie Brewster for a "welfare check on a female that was reportedly being held against her will." When cops arrived, Brewster claimed she was the only one home, but then the victim limped to the door and said, "Help me." According to six harrowing criminal complaints, the woman, who apparently had been held for more than a week, had four stab wounds in her left leg, bruised eyes, and had been repeatedly sexually assaulted and humiliated. The woman told police that she was forced to lick Brewster's "toes, vagina, and anal cavity." Brewster's son Bobby forced the woman to eat dog and rat feces, according to one complaint filed in Logan County Magistrate Court. The victim, who is now hospitalized, was raped at knifepoint, choked with a cable cord, and had her hair pulled and cut during the ordeal. Police, who have arrested six defendants for their roles in the abduction and attack, are looking for other suspects who may have lured the victim to Brewster's home. The arrestees are seen in the below mug shots. Pictured clockwise from the upper left are Frankie Brewster, 49; Bobby Brewster, 24; Danny Combs, 20; George Messer, 27; Alisha Burton, 22; and Karen Burton, 46. (11 pages)

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0911071logansix1.html

White trash, anyone? 

From the article Jezebel linked to:  "I just want my daughter to be well and recover," Carmen Williams said. "I know the Lord can do anything."  Damn, woman!  Your daughter was tortured and sexually abused, and you still lean on Jesus?  Ask yourself this: why didn't Jesus stop this from happening in the first place?

Horrible newspaper article !!

Racism?........not sure you can pin something like that down to just 'racism' or explain it away with more 'racism' - ie calling the perps 'white trash'.

There's been a few gang rape/murders here in Oz as well. Sociopaths / psychopaths - does it run in families? I think so ....people who have similar 'tastes' usually hang out together. That gang must have had a lot of time on their hands.....bored?.,...to spend an entire week torturing the woman. I wonder if they had 'practised' this kind of thing before on more willing subject. You know.......there are people looking to be subjugated - mascocistists and might find the 'torture' described in this story  very sexually stimulating ?

You can connect with  a lot of weirdo's online!

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Your daughter was tortured and sexually abused, and you still lean on Jesus? Ask yourself this: why didn't Jesus stop this from happening in the first place?

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yeah.....to me it seems most christians believe in an interventionist 'god/jesus'............but fail to 'blame' 'gawd when 'shit' happens. .................But ya'd think this horror might stimulate the mind of mother who is coping wtih the damaged/ beaten daughter. ?

Also....I can imagine the FUCKED UP counselling (if you can call it that.) .. that the woman might receive at the hands of 'christian' helper's.  ! You know...didn't she pray enough or some bullshit about 'forgiveness"?

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But you think you need them.

Isn't that the same tactic that abusive spouses use to control their other half. They knock them down till they can't cope on their own and then THEY are the ones to pick up the pieces. But the victim doesn't realise that the person they think is saving them is actually the problem in the first place.

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Yeah....good point! That's exactly how I see the 'believer' behaving towards the person who apparently needs some 'teachings' or 'help' . The 'believer' wants to identify weaknesses and create 'need'.

Here's my take on it.....the bastards wheedle away at your self esteem - your life in order to make a point  - how much better you'll be with the companionship of their faith - to join them at church. There was also a very competitive streak to the conversation..."i'm better off than you are cos I'm saved and you're not" And . I don't know how many times I've had 'christians' say to me that faith in 'god' is the answer to everything - of course the covert suggestion is that if you don't go down that way, you're fucked!

In other words I also had similar conversations with my fundy /'believer' family members as you describe in your post..................................but in my stories or reflections of the convo's I had with fundies/believer's is that they did try  very hard to convince themselves that they were going to get that 'special' treatment from life through their faith in a god.. Stuff like - testimonies of how if they 'prayed' or thought....stuff like looking for a parking spot in a very crowed carpark - POP! one would magically appear to them. ...All kinds of 'good' fortune would happen that they could talk about - prosperity - big income etc etc ! ...as well as being able to 'see' spiritual' danger by being able to recognise 'evil' people and places.........(crazy crap)

Basically the thing is to change the victims reality and make em' swallow a different 'reality' that is not theirs in the first place. ......Umm...when people converse or exchange 'realities' there's a eye to eye thing happening. - its level however with the christian or True believer dynamic one person takes on a high moral ground and tries to knock off the equilibrium of the other person and  tries to make them accepting of their 'truth'. Its combative.

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What's the point in being best mates with this all powerful god if he's just going to let me suffer the same fate as everyone else?!"

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but yeah...I could take your question or logic further....

Its not only about the idea that 'god' will save or help you when shit happens......................but that 'god'  doesn't  show itself at all? Even to the ever so 'faithful' True believer.

Here's how it goes.......paraphrased

"According to the Bible when the Israelites wandered in the desert for forty years, "God' fed them by making food fall regularly from the sky (Ex16:4). During the 1980's, several million Ethiopian Christians died slowly and painfully from starvation due to a prolonged drought. "God" had then the opportunity to make food fall from the sky, as the Bible claims he did in the past, in order to prove his existence, his power and his love. "

Anyone could say that 'god'  did not manifest his presence because he does not exist.

but many don't choose to or at least entertain the idea that 'god' is particularly an 'evil' bastard who like to see his creation suffer.?

*shrugs*

p.s. love the new nickname - Cuteness rules! Sorry if this post is a bit jumbled or repeative..I'm eating lunch while I type!