The couple each faced over a dozen counts involving their adopted children, including child neglect, civil rights violations, human trafficking, and forced outdoor labor - which the eldest says mostly occurred in Washington state.

White couple accused of treating adopted Black kids as 'slaves' found guilty of forced labour, human trafficking - Jeanne Whitefeather and Donald Ray Lantz were accused of mistreating their children —

Kanawha County Prosecuting Attorney Debra Rusnak and Kanawha County Sherriff Joe Crawford came on 580 Live Thursday after the Sissonville couple, Jeanne Kay Whitefeather and Donald Ray Lantz were found guilty on 31 of 35 combined charges Wednesday night following an over two-week trial.

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

Jury deliberations are approaching after the nearly three-week trial for Jeanne Whitefeather and Donald Lantz.

A jury on Wednesday found a couple guilty of human trafficking and child neglect in Kanawha County, with the mother also found guilty of civil rights violations.

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) – After several days of hearing testimony from both sides, the jury has the case in a child abuse and human trafficking trial in Kanawha County. On Wednesday morning, jurors will begin deliberations in the case against Jeanne Whitefeather and Donald Lantz.

Another child is testifying against a Sissonville couple accused of human trafficking and child abuse in day five of the trial.

A woman accused with her husband of forcing their adopted children to perform hard labor denied confining two of the children to a shed.

A West Virginia couple accused of neglect and forced labor involving their adopted children was convicted by a jury on Wednesday after eight hours of deliberations. Jeanne Kay Whitefeather and Donald Ray Lantz went on trial in mid-January and each faced over a dozen counts,

A West Virginia jury has convicted a couple who were accused of neglect and forced labor involving their adopted children, including locking some of them in a shed, forcing them to sleep on the floor and use buckets as toilets.

A man from Kanawha County was arrested on sex trafficking charges. According to a press release, 48-year-old Tiwan Robert Bailey, also known as “Quick,” of