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 ...
White couple accused of treating adopted Black kids as 'slaves' found guilty of forced labour, human trafficking - Jeanne ...
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 ...
Trial has started for a West Virginia couple accused of subjecting their five children to forced labor and locking two of them in an outbuilding ...
who are accused of mistreating their five adopted children, all of whom are Black. Whitefeather and Lantz, who are white, each face more than a dozen felony counts that include forced labor ...
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.
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 ...