Al Sharpton pushed WV rape story which turned out to be a hoax: (’Race attack’ victim: I lied)
A troubled young woman whom the Rev. Al Sharpton championed as a victim of a horrific, racially motivated sexual assault now says she fabricated the incident — despite the fact that all of her alleged attackers pleaded guilty and are serving jail time.
Megan Williams, who is black, wasn’t kidnapped and tortured in a West Virginia trailer at the hands of white attackers — but lied because she wanted to get back at a boyfriend who’d beaten her, her lawyer, Byron Potts, said.
“She told me the only thing not self-inflicted were the bruises on her face,” he said at a news conference.
“She is recanting the entire incident. She says it did not happen, and she’s scared.”
When her allegations went public in 2007, Sharpton rallied to her side and pressed authorities to indict the accused attackers for hate crimes, even as local NAACP leaders urged restraint.
“Our involvement surrounded a call for hate-crime investigations and we did not know the truths or nontruths of the investigation,” Sharpton said in a statement yesterday.
Source: NY Post
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