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Associated Press - June 4, 2009 9:35 AM ET
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The mother of a young black woman who was kidnapped and tortured by seven white people in southern West Virginia two years ago has died.
A spokeswoman for Preston Funeral Home in Charleston said Thursday that Carmen D. Williams of Charleston died Sunday. She was 47.
The cause of death was not disclosed.
Williams' daughter Megan was held for days in the fall of 2007 in a Logan County trailer. Police say she was forced to eat animal feces, sexually assaulted, stabbed and subjected to a racial epithet.
The Associated Press generally does not identify victims of sexual assault, but Williams and her mother agreed to release her name. Carmen Williams had said she wanted people to know what her daughter, then 20, endured.
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