Reply #107: Megan Williams Recants Claims Of Sexual Abuse (NPR)

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... Mr. GARY HARKI (Charleston Gazette): ... Essentially, basically they've all pretty much said that none of the people convicted on any of the charges were convicted on Megan's testimony. Everyone - there was physical evidence against all of these people and also their own statements. They all pled guilty and then confessed to what they did and also said what the other people that were involved did as well ...

Basically she's been living in Columbus with a woman by the name of Valencia Daniels(ph), and Daniels a couple months ago put a video up on YouTube that had Williams and her and I believe Williams' sister, Shayla(ph), and they were talking about how Williams, all these terrible things had happened to her and how she no longer had any money, and they were asking people for money in the YouTube video. That has since been taken down ...

Reverend Lloyd Hill(ph), who's a pastor here in Charleston, he was one of the first people to interview her and talk to her after she was brought out of Logan County and in the hospital.

And what he told me yesterday was that when he saw her, he thought, well, this was such a tragic situation for a young woman who basically has the mind of a child ...

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