'We were the voices for those kids': Sissonville neighbors feel validated by verdict
When Donald Lantz, Jeanne Whitefeather and their five adopted kids moved to Sissonville in May 2023 from Washington state, ...
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Mother on trial in West Virginia denies locking adopted teens in shed
Defendants Donald Lantz and Jeanne Whitefeather enter Kanawha Circuit Court Judge Maryclaire Akers' courtroom with Kanawha County Sheriff Deputy Matthew Dingess for the first day of their trial ...
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‘Felt Like I Wasn’t Ever Going to Get Out’: West Virginia Couple Convicted of Enslaving Adopted Black Children—Forced Them to Dig with Bare Hands, Kept The…
After 12 days of harrowing testimony, jurors on Wednesday found a West Virginia couple guilty of child neglect and human ...
Parents Who Locked Adopted Children in Barn, Forced Them to Work 'as Slaves' Convicted of Human Trafficking
The West Virginia couple, who is White, were accused of severely neglecting and mistreating their five adopted Black children ...
Human trafficking task force member calls recent verdict a 'significant milestone'
Wednesday's human trafficiking convictions for Jeanne Whitefeather and Donald Lantz marked a majorEven before the guilty ...
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Gazette-Mail editorial: Whitefeather, Lantz are worst of the worst
After nearly two weeks of brutal testimony and a conviction on 31 of 35 total counts against them, it’s clear that adoptive ...
Advocates call for state law against torture in West Virginia
In West Virginia, there is not currently a state law against torture. After the verdict of a human trafficking trial in ...
‘Weren’t there to be raised as children’: White couple forced adopted Black children to do hard labor and live in filthy shed
A white West Virginia couple was convicted of using their adopted Black children as "slaves," forcing them to work heavy ...
The Register-Herald11d
Jury finds Kanawha County couple guilty on charges of abusing, trafficking adopted children (copy)
A Kanawha County jury convicted a Sissonville couple on 31 of 35 combined charges Wednesday bringing to a close an 11-day trial focused on how the husband ...
West Virginia couple convicted of forced labor, human trafficking of adopted kids in WA
The couple each faced over a dozen counts involving their adopted children, including child neglect, civil rights violations, ...
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WV couple convicted of forced labor, human trafficking of adopted kids
A West Virginia couple accused of neglect and forced labor involving their adopted children was convicted by a jury on Wednesday after eight hours of deliberations. Jeanne Kay Whitefeather and Donald ...