A white West Virginia couple was convicted of using their adopted Black children as "slaves," forcing them to work heavy labor and live in a filthy shed with buckets as toilets. The post ‘Weren’t there to be raised as children’: White couple forced adopted Black children to do hard labor and live in filthy shed first appeared on Law & Crime.

The couple each faced over a dozen counts involving their adopted children, including child neglect, civil rights violations, human trafficking, and forced outdoor labor - which the eldest says mostly occurred in Washington state.

A West Virginia jury has convicted a couple who were accused of neglect and forced labor involving their adopted children, including locking them in a shed, forcing them to sleep on the floor and use buckets as toilets.

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) – A jury on Tuesday found a couple guilty of human trafficking and child neglect in Kanawha County, with the mother also found guilty of civil rights violations. Tuesday marked day 10 of the trial of Jeanne Whitefeather and Donald Lantz.