W.Va. woman in 2007 torture case facing 4 charges

Associated Press

MORGANTOWN, W.Va.

A black West Virginia woman who was kidnapped and tortured by a group of white people in 2007, then tried to recant her accusations two years later, has been arrested for violating a domestic violence protective order.

Megan Williams, 25, was charged with four misdemeanors after she threw a can of food at her husband on the street then tried to remove property from the home she’d been ordered to avoid, Hinton Police Chief Derek Snavely said Wednesday.

Williams was being held on $10,000 bond at the Southern Regional Jail after her arraignment in Summers County Magistrate Court. It was not immediately clear whether she had an attorney.

Snavely said he also charged Williams with petty larceny, fleeing on foot and obstructing an officer because she ran about a block when he tried to arrest her Tuesday afternoon.

He said Williams’ husband, Robert Lee Brady Jr., had obtained a protective order after his wife’s Aug. 14 arrest on a charge of falsely reporting an emergency. She was jailed for a few days before making $500 bail.

There have been multiple 911 calls about domestic disturbances at the home in the year or so the couple has been living in Hinton, but Snavely said Aug. 14 was the first arrest.

Williams appears to have last posted on a Facebook page under the name Megan Brady on Aug. 13, the day before her previous arrest. There are multiple posts in the preceding days accusing her husband of mistreating her and claiming she is pregnant.