White West Virginia Couple Arrested, Kept Black Kids In Barn

White of us residing within the boonies are to not be trusted beneath any circumstances. You must already know that, however right here’s another excuse why.

A white couple from West Virginia was arrested final yr after a wellness verify revealed that 63-year-old Donald Ray Lantz and 62-year-old Jeanne Kay Whitefeather have been holding two of their 5 adopted Black youngsters holed up in a “deplorable” shed behind their residence.

Based on WV Metro Information, the couple every posted $200,000 bonds on the time however Kanawha County Circuit Decide Maryclaire Akers has revoked that bond in mild of over a dozen new expenses filed in opposition to them. Lantz and Whitefeather lately appeared in court docket to plead not responsible to the accusations that embrace human trafficking of a minor little one, use of a minor little one in compelled labor, and little one neglect creating substantial threat of great bodily damage or loss of life.

Decide Akers mentioned in court docket that she now not finds the unique bond enough contemplating the severity of the fees. She went on to say that she’s by no means seen an indictment like this in her days sitting on the bench, reviews WV Metro Information. 

“It alleges human trafficking, human rights violations, using compelled labor,” Akers mentioned. “Human rights violations particular to the truth that these youngsters have been focused due to their race they usually have been used mainly as slaves from what the indictment alleges.”

These sick soup cookies can thank Kanawha County prosecutor Christopher Krivonyak for his or her elevated bond to $500,000 after efficiently arguing that Lantz and Whitefeather may publish their unique bonds by utilizing income from trafficking regardless of declaring that that they had no belongings.

Krivonyak said that the couple offered an 80-acre ranch in Tonasket, Washington, for $725,000 on Feb. 2. Whitefeather’s brother, Marcus Hughes, posted two $200,000 bonds to launch the couple from the South Central Regional Jail three days later.

Initially, Whitefeather tried to sofa the slave shed as a “teenage clubhouse.” Nevertheless, deputies found a 16-year-old woman and a 14-year-old boy who have been soiled with sores and locked away with a port-a-potty and no working water.

We hope these white of us go to jail earlier than they go to hell.