W.Va. man pleads guilty in torture of woman

Bobby Brewster, 25, pleaded guilty in Logan County Circuit Court on Tuesday to second-degree sexual assault, malicious assault and conspiracy to commit kidnapping. He was sentenced to at least 13 and as many as 40 years in prison, The Charleston Gazette reported.

A call to Logan County Prosecutor Robert Ilderton was not immediately returned Wednesday night.

Brewster was arrested in September along with five others.

Authorities say they held Charleston resident Megan Williams for days in a trailer where she was forced to eat animal feces, sexually assaulted and stabbed. She was rescued Sept. 8 after an anonymous caller alerted authorities.

All the other defendants have pleaded guilty except Danny Combs, whose trial is scheduled to begin in September.

Because Williams is black and her assailants were white, prosecutors were pressured to charge the defendants with hate crimes, but only one faced such a charge.

The Associated Press generally does not identify suspected victims of sexual assault, but Williams and her mother, Carmen, agreed to release her name. Carmen Williams has said she wanted people to know what her daughter, then 20, endured.