Posted on 06/25/2024 3:10:40 PM PDT by 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.
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This happened in my county and everyone has been talking about it.
These people were NOT native West Virginians, they were from California. None of the locals really knew them. Don't even think they had family here in the state. No one knows why they came out here in the first place and most of all to Sissonville which is like middle of freaking no where with Mothman.
Time travelers from the past?
Now it’s the media’s job to equate all white people to these sickos.
“Whitefeather” — native American? Or a fake adopted name?
Why didn’t they force them to make TV commercials? There aren’t enough blacks on TV commercials, y’know.
I bet I know who they voted for.
““Whitefeather” — native American? Or a fake adopted name?”
Half of Kanawha County is wondering that!
Whitefeather also sounds like an Indian surname
Demonrats.
Either they don’t know or care that slavery was abolished in 1865. It’s probably both.
Nah, Jeanne Kay Whitefeather is a “White” native, like the “White” hispanic George Zimmerman.
Headline wouldn’t work otherwise.
“Racially Diverse Couple charged with keeping black children like slaves” just doesn’t have the same ring to it, ya’know?
In a Yankee State, no less!
“These people were NOT native West Virginians, they were from California.”
Ah, there lies the explanation. They were DemocRATs, the party of the clan. Way back then, now, and always.
Well, the brother woh bailed her out has a last name of Hughes.
My 15 year old son (who is black) sometimes accuses him of this.
Wiley’s comic strip “Non Sequitur” had a regular feature called “People Unclear on the Concept”. Being made to brush your teeth and change your underwear and do ten minutes of weed whacking in exchange for one-on-one education, a climate controlled room all your own, with a soft bed and fresh sheets, two cats and a dog, chauffeured trips to friends across town, and three square meals plus snacks/treats, is NOT slavery.
>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.<
They couldn’t afford good help.
I think it goes further than that. 16 and 14 years alone with
nothing to pass the time at night?
Camera? Voyeurism?
They look like Californians. West Virginians have a certain look.
“These people were NOT native West Virginians, they were from California.”
Thanks, that’s all we needed to know.
Sick people, poor children. I hope the children get a loving home.
And:
“16, 14, 11, nine, and six - …”
Proofreading/editing is a lost requirement, sad.
I was taught you spell out numbers ten and below. Eleven and above you use the numerals. It does look weird in one sentence.
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