Advocates call for state law against torture in West Virginia
In West Virginia, there is not currently a state law against torture. After the verdict of a human trafficking trial in ...
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West Virginia mother on trial for locking adopted teenagers in shed denies allegations
A West Virginia mother denied forcing two ... a girl and a boy — in the shed and leaving the property in Sissonville, West Virginia. Whitefeather claimed the shed was a "teenager hangout." ...
'We were the voices for those kids': Sissonville neighbors feel validated by verdict
When Donald Lantz, Jeanne Whitefeather and their five adopted kids moved to Sissonville in May 2023 from Washington state, ...
Couple found guilty of nearly all charges in Sissonville trafficking, force labor case
The mother of children who were found locked in a Sissonville barn was found guilty on all charges and the father guilty of all but four in a child abuse and fo ...
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Jury deliberations for the Sissonville child abuse trial to begin Wednesday morning
CHARLESTON, W.Va. –The jury for the Sissonville couple charged with child abuse, neglect and human trafficking will start deliberating the case Wednesday morning. The jury heard closing arguments ...
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West Virginia mother on trial for locking adopted teenagers in shed denies allegations
Whitefeather and Lantz were arrested in October 2023 when neighbors reported that they observed Lantz locking two teenagers — a girl and a boy — in the shed and leaving the property in Sissonville, ...
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White mother accused of treating Black adopted kids as ‘slaves’ said they liked being kept in barn, trial told
Neighbor Joyce Bailey testified Tuesday that when the family first arrived at the home in Sissonville, West Virginia, in 2023 in a vehicle pulling a trailer for animals, it was raining and the ...