A West Virginia couple has been sentenced to decades in prison for abusing and enslaving their Black adopted children, forcing them to perform heavy labor and endure inhumane conditions.

Jeanne Whitefeather, 63, was sentenced to up to 215 years. Donald Lantz, 62, was sentenced to up to 160 years, the Kanawha County Prosecuting Attorney said.

A West Virginia couple convicted of the mistreatment of their adopted children, including locking some in a shed, received maximum sentences of decades in prison.

A West Virginia couple convicted of abusing their adopted Black children and treating them as slaves has each been sentenced to more than a century in prison. The Independent reports that Jeanne ...

On Wednesday, Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, 63, was sentenced to 215 years in prison for forced labor, human trafficking, child abuse and neglect, and violating the children's civil rights, according to a ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia couple received the maximum sentences of decades in prison Wednesday for abusing their adoptive children, which included heavy labor, locking them in ...