A white West Virginia couple was convicted of using their adopted Black children as "slaves," forcing them to work heavy ...

The West Virginia couple, who is White, were accused of severely neglecting and mistreating their five adopted Black children ...

Donald Lantz and Jeanne Whitefeather, who are both white, were arrested after two ... human trafficking, forced labor, gross child neglect and falsifying an application seeking a public defender.

The parents, who are white, face more than a dozen counts including forced labor ... gross child neglect. The children, all siblings ranging in age from 5 to 16, are Black. Day two of testimony ...

Jeanne Whitefeather has denied locking two of her five adopted children in a shed -- despite authorities finding the teens in one back in October 2023.

The 'abusive' white parents from West Virginia accused of locking their adopted black children in a barn also forced them into grueling manual labor, a court heard. Jeanne Whitefeather ...

The U.S. government found child labor violations involving over 3,800 minors in 2022. At the same time, some states say there is too much regulation of child labor. Katherine Walts, director of ...

Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including ... By Hannah Dreier and Kirsten Luce The White House and federal agencies were ...

All three of these announcements come just days before President elect Donald Trump takes office, but they follow a number of other child labor investigations in the meatpacking industry in the ...

Two multibillion-dollar meatpacking companies will each pay $4 million after federal investigations revealed they had illicitly employed dozens of children through staffing agencies, the Labor ...

Perdue Farms and JBS have settled with the Labor Department after relying on migrant children to do dangerous ... In response to The Times’s reporting, the White House announced in early 2023 ...