UPDATE: Couple Who "ADOPTED" 5 Black Children To Use As SLAVES Were Sentenced To a Total Of 375 Years In Prison! pic.twitter.com/HA1g1TjjNp
— i Expose Racists & Pedos (@SeeRacists) February 22, 2026
In March 2025, a white couple from West Virginia — Jeanne Kay Whitefeather (sentenced to up to 215 years in prison) and Donald Ray Lantz (sentenced to up to 160 years, for a combined total of up to 375 years) — were given maximum sentences after being convicted of severely abusing and exploiting their five adopted Black children.The couple, who are white, adopted the five Black siblings (who ranged in age from about 5 to 16 at the time of the discovery) while previously living in Minnesota. They later moved the family to a farm in Washington state in 2018, and then to rural Sissonville, West Virginia, in May 2023.The case came to light in October 2023 when authorities, following a report, found two of the teenagers locked inside a windowless shed/outbuilding (often described as a barn or shed) with no access to running water, bathroom facilities, proper food, or means to exit on their own. The children were forced to sleep on bare concrete floors without mattresses or padding, suffered from open sores on their feet, malnutrition, body odor due to neglect, and other signs of extreme mistreatment.Prosecutors proved the couple subjected the children to:Forced labor — grueling, unpaid farm work such as digging trenches, pulling weeds by hand, carrying heavy objects over hilly terrain, and other exhausting tasks.
Physical and psychological abuse — including beatings, pepper spraying for disobedience, forcing them to stand for hours (e.g., with hands on heads to prevent sleep), starvation, racial slurs, and isolation (including through homeschooling to limit outside contact).
Human trafficking and gross child neglect/abuse — treating the children essentially as slaves on their property.
Civil rights violations — specifically targeting and exploiting the children because of their race (Whitefeather was convicted on race-based charges).
A Kanawha County jury convicted them in late January 2025 on multiple felony counts (reports mention up to 31 counts in total), including human trafficking of minors, forced labor, child abuse/neglect causing injury, and related crimes. During sentencing on March 19, 2025, Circuit Court Judge Maryclaire Akers condemned their actions harshly, stating they had brought the children to West Virginia — known as "almost heaven" — only to put them through "hell." The couple was also ordered to pay $280,000 in restitution to each victim.The now-adult and teenage victims (who are safe in new placements and reportedly doing better) described the couple as "monsters" in court. The eldest daughter testified about the prolonged abuse and inhumane conditions.This horrific case highlighted serious failures in adoption oversight, racial targeting in abuse, and modern-day exploitation of vulnerable children. The post you linked from @SeeRacists
(which focuses on exposing racism) shared details to highlight the racial element and draw public attention/outrage to the story.
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