White West Virginia couple forced their adopted black children to work as slaves and live in barn

Daily Mail UK ^ | June 25, 2024 | Alexa Cimino

[Morgana]

A wealthy white West Virginia couple have been accused of forcing their adopted black children to work as slaves and live inside a locked barn.

Donald Ray Lantz, 63, and Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, 62 of Charleston, West Virginia, plead not guilty on Tuesday to multiple new charges after their kids were found locked in a dilapidated shed after allegedly laboring on the surrounding farmland.

The judge presiding over the case said the couple targeted their five kids - aged 16, 14, 11, nine, and six - because of their race and they were 'used basically as slaves.'

According to the original arrest report in October, the 16 and 14-year-old children were locked in the squalid 20x14 shed with no lights, food or running water - with a camera planted in the top left corner of the room.

The children, who smelled of body odor, were found wearing dirty clothes with sores on their feet after a wellness check was performed on the outhouse on Cheyenne Lane - which had no way of being opened from the inside.

The shed sat on the grounds of the couple's five-acre, three-bedroom $295,000 Sissonville property. They also owned an 80-acre $725,000 home in Tonasket, Washington, which they sold after their arrest in October.

Whitefeather stated that the barn where the girl, 16, and boy, 14, were found was a 'teenage clubhouse,' and they were not held against their will.

The mother told deputies the children - who were all homeschooled - actually 'liked' the shed they were locked in.

However, the teenage girl told deputies they had been locked in the building for approximately 12 hours and were last given food at 6am.

[gitmo]

I was taught you spell out numbers ten and below. Eleven and above you use the numerals.

I've never heard that rule.

[Vermont Lt]

That is the “AP Standard” for writing as well.

[Seruzawa]

These two should work for free and live in a barn for about 20 years.

[Scrambler Bob]

I’ve never heard that rule.
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It is Rule Number 40 three.

[jacknhoo]

The reason it looks weird is because it is wrong:

“If two or more related numbers are used in a sentence, one below 10 and one a bigger number, their use should be consistent. They can either be spelled out or written as numerals.“

https://www.niu.edu/writingtutorial/grammar/use-of-numbers.shtml#:~:text=Numbers%20between%201%20and%209,their%20use%20should%20be%20consistent.

[jacknhoo]

The reason it looks weird is because it is wrong:

“If two or more related numbers are used in a sentence, one below 10 and one a bigger number, their use should be consistent. They can either be spelled out or written as numerals.“

https://www.niu.edu/writingtutorial/grammar/use-of-numbers.shtml#:~:text=Numbers%20between%201%20and%209,their%20use%20should%20be%20consistent

[jacknhoo]

Good one.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Elementary, Jr High, High School and university. 1960-1973.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks This is the first time I’ve seen that use case. Makes sense.

[Racketeer]

It won’t be long. The MSM will find Trump signs, bumper stickers, and hats in the yard, on bumpers, and thrown about the house.

[NEMDF]

Yes, what you said about numbers. I saw another example today (of ages being listed correctly, like this). Some kind of journalistic miracle....

[moovova]

A George Costanza quote comes to mind...

[Jumper]

Well in their defense, the came from Kalifornia, and since their are no more Civil War Statutes to show a war was fought and the slaves were freed... can you blame them with their uber-libtard views of WVirginians?