Prosecutor says "absurd" that attack never happened

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) West Virginia prosecutors are dismissing claims from a black woman who now says she was not beaten and tortured by seven white people two years ago in a trailer.

Former Logan County Prosecutor Brian Abraham says it looks to him "like another attempt to generate more publicity." All seven confessed and pleaded guilty, and all but one was sent to prison.

The lawyer for Megan Williams says his client is recanting because she no longer wants to live a lie. He says she leveled the charges to get back at a boyfriend who had beaten her.

Abraham says it's "absurd" to say that the whole thing was made up, saying he relied on the defendants' own statements and physical evidence. Williams wants those in prison to be freed.

Lawyers for the defendants are refusing to discuss their plans.

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