An unbelievable hate crime that one sheriff describes as being like "something that would have come out of a horror movie" is unfolding near Charleston, West Virginia. Six people are under arrest after a black woman was allegedly lured to a home over the Internet and tortured by those inside.

Authorities believe Megan Williams was repeatedly stabbed by her accused tormentors, as one of them uttered the "N" word with each and every thrust. Police were called to a home in the suburb of Big Creek Saturday by an anonymous tip and were confronted by a woman named Frankie Brewster (top left), sitting on a front porch, claiming she was alone. That's when a desperate Williams suddenly found the strength to limp towards the front door, stretch out her arms and plead "help me" to the astonished officers.

Cops contend that during her week in captivity, Williams was sexually assaulted, stabbed four times in the left leg, beaten, choked with a cord, forced to eat rat and dog feces and drink from a toilet. When she asked her captors why they were doing this to her, she claims they allegedly told her it was because she was a black woman.

The six accused, ranging in age from 20 to 49, are facing a long list of charges, including kidnapping, sex assault, and battery. Two others are still being sought.

Williams continues to recover in hospital, but her mother wonders if she will ever get over her ordeal. "I don't understand a human being doing another human being the way they did my daughter," Carmen Williams gasps. "I didn't know there were people like that out here." She denies her daughter met anyone over the Internet but didn't say how they'd come together or what ruse may have been used to lure her to the home.

And as for the victim? She's badly bruised, has two black eyes and is in a cast. But she still managed a sentence that now seems tragically ironic. "I'm better," she states simply, her voice a hoarse whisper.

Photo courtesy: West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority