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A white West Virginia couple was sentenced to decades in prison this week for abusing some of their adopted children, who are Black, including by forcing them to perform heavy labor like "slaves."

Donald Lantz, 62, was sentenced to 160 years in prison after being found guilty of forced labor, human trafficking, child abuse and neglect, the New York Times reported.

His wife Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, 63, who was convicted of the same charges plus violating her children's civil rights, was sentenced to 215 years behind bars.

The couple was convicted in January.

“You brought these children to West Virginia, a place that I know is ‘almost heaven,’ and you put them in hell,” Eighth Judicial Circuit Court Judge Maryclaire Akers said during sentencing, per WCHS. “This court will now put you in yours. And may God have mercy on your souls, because this court will not.”

The couple adopted the five children in 2018 and eventually moved to Kanawha County in May 2023, prosecutors said, per the Times.

They were arrested in October 2023 after a neighbor called Child Protective Services, alleging that two teenagers, 14 and 16, were locked in a shed at the couple’s home in Sissonville, according to court documents obtained by WCHS-TV. Other neighbors also claimed the children were “forced to perform farm labor and were not permitted inside the residence,” per the documents.

Deputies responded to the home and alleged two children were locked in the shed with a portable toilet and no running water, according to an indictment cited by West Virginia MetroNews. The children told authorities they were forced to sleep on the floor and had been locked in the shed for about 12 hours, per the indictment.

The children were wearing dirty clothes and the oldest boy had what appeared to be sores on his feet, per the Associated Press.

A 16-count indictment was filed against the couple.

“It alleges human trafficking, human rights violations, the use of forced labor,” Akers said during a 2024 hearing about the indictment, according to West Virginia Metro News. “Human rights violations specific to the fact that these children were targeted because of their race and they were used basically as slaves from what the indictment alleges."

The oldest daughter testified during the trial that the children were regularly cursed at and some of them had to stand in their rooms for hours with their hands on their heads, per the AP.

Lantz’s attorney John J. Balenovich tells PEOPLE his client, who was not found guilty of a civil rights violation, “maintains his innocence of all charges"

Source: People

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make them come adopt me abeg

no slavery worse than living in the zo o

Whites and Psychopathic Behavior are inseparable like a crocodile and water.
Forget their so called civilization.
Whites are pure savage animals walking on two legs and wearing clothes.
It's only among them you would hear of mental disorders unknown to the rest of the world,names of strange diseases unknown to the rest of the world.
They are animals and that's why God cursed them to die in the thousands, trying to bring civilization to Africa, the Americas and elsewhere.
They have always tried to hide or eclipse this fact.
Whites perished in the thousands in Africa before they could successfully partition the continent and colonize in their Scramble for Africa.
Most of us are totally unaware of this fact about Whites in SA.
During the Apartheid rule there, there was a constant spate of attacks by Great White Sharks on humans surfing in the ocean.
And the victims were mysteriously only Whites.
There were deaths from the attacks.
Whites also died in their numbers from attacks of hippos,lions and crocodiles.
A documentary on this was aired on GoTv and DSTV back in 2018/2019.

My goodness!

No matter how wealthy you're, never make slaves of the financially disadvantaged people. Its inhuman and ungodly.
If u have and can help, may u please help me with 5k?. A whole family is stranded right now.

No let Trump see them.

Pardon Guaranteed.

Inhumane souls.

Toh

They got the judgment they deserve.

When we’ve long moved past the age of industrialization. They deserve to die in prison.

bea1234567:
make them come adopt me abeg

no slavery worse than living in the zo o

Be careful what you wish for.

normal day here, WOMEN dey W!CKED pass MEN sha, even tho NONE of them can cme back AL!VE, but woman GO ROT longer in H#LL than the MAN

THE PEOPLE THAT GAVE WHITE MAN AND WOMAN, BLACK CHILDREN, WERE THEY BLIND OR EXPERIMENTING?


ARE WHITE PEOPLE NICE?


DO UU WANT ME TO SAY WAT THEY DID TO AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINE CHILDREN OR NATIVE AMERICAN CHILDREN.



THEY ARE NOT SUITABLE TO CARE FOR BLACK CHILDREN GENERALLY SPEAKING,


THEY HAVE AN EVIL MIND AND VERY RACIAL ABOUT LIFE.

Blacks have done worse to fellow black kids….

My tribal women have done worse to other peoples children they promised to train….

It’s only a crime when a white man is involved


Nansense

Nice development

Trump fit pardon them later

Lol, many Nigerians will begging them to adopt them than to live in a zoo with.any sycophants.

This is just wickedness. Adopting children only to treat them like slaves? Glad justice caught up with them. People like this have no business being around kids

160 and 215 years respectively !
Devil will indeed be ashamed of them with this kain imprisonment...

Thats the plan

Slaves as in SLAVES
Sex workers
Coded slaves (put them thru school, work) for them to be used later on
In USA, they are turning boys to girls from birth

The world is in some SOCIAL CHAOS

After 100s of years, racism still exists in the USA....

Whites maltreating blacks simply because of skin pigmentation.

bea1234567:
make them come adopt me abeg

no slavery worse than living in the zo o

Sorry, but you're a slave already. You're just not aware.

bea1234567:
make them come adopt me abeg

no slavery worse than living in the zo o

Be careful what you wish for cos you might get it... Una go just open mouth waa dey talk nonsense. 🙄

If God puts you in the position of those kids, you'd pray hard to be in your present condition. The kids were living in a cage/barn, meant for animals... shey na wetin you want be that? Keep praying for it oo.

If given the opportunity, human beings will enslave each other.

Useless ppl , make den rot in jail..we get their type for naija too.. "Igbo women" comes to mind 😒

bea1234567:
make them come adopt me abeg

no slavery worse than living in the zo o

Why don’t you just find somewhere to jump into and end it since you rather become a slave than die.

Oyinbo dey like all these things

Can imagine them saying NIGGERs.

In Uncle Ruckus / Samuel L Jackson's voice.

Crazy crazy stuff.

The whites should have know Slavery in 2025 is only possible among the Ronus in Nigeria.

If they had contacted Tinubu for some Ronu slaves to adopt, they will not be going to be prison by now.