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Jeanne Kay Whitefeather

White couple gets maximum sentence for enslaving adopted Black children on their farm

White couple gets maximum sentence for enslaving adopted Black children on their farm

A white couple from West Virginia has been sentenced to a combined 375 years in prison for enslaving their five adopted Black children, forcing them into grueling labor while subjecting them to racial slurs. Jeanne Kay Whitefeather received up to 215 years, while her husband, Donald Lantz, was handed a 160-year sentence—the maximum allowed—after being…

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