OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
5:03 PM – Friday, March 21, 2025
A couple in West Virginia was given a total term of 375 years in prison for making their five adopted Black children work as “slaves” on their farm — while being “verbally abused” with derogatory remarks about their race.
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Following their January convictions for “forced labor, human trafficking, child abuse and neglect,” Jeanne Kay Whitefeather was given a maximum sentence of 215 years in prison, while her husband, Donald Lantz, was given a term of 160 years.
“You brought these children to West Virginia, a place that I know as ‘Almost Heaven,’ and you put them in hell. This court will now put you in yours,” stated Circuit Judge Maryclaire Akers,…
