The only defendant to be charged with a hate crime in the alleged gang torture of a black woman in Logan County has pleaded guilty to the charge.

A lawyer for 46-year-old Karen Burton says her client entered her plea in circuit court Thursday to charges of malicious wounding, assault and violation of civil rights.

In exchange, a kidnapping charge against the Chapmanville woman was dropped.

Burton has told the lawyer she does not remember many of the abuses against 20-year-old Megan Williams, but does not deny them.

Williams says she was held captive for days at a trailer in Big Creek, where she was forced to eat animal feces, sexually assaulted and beaten. She was rescued September 8 after an anonymous caller alerted Logan County sheriff's deputies.

Prosecuting Attorney Brian Abraham has said Burton stabbed Williams in the ankle while using a racial slur against her.

Two defendants, including Burton's daughter, pleaded guilty Friday to one count of kidnapping and one count of assault during the commission of a felony.

Four others, including Burton's son, are charged in the case.