White West Virginia couple arrested for keeping Black kids in barn

White of us residing within the boonies are to not be trusted underneath any circumstances. It is best to already know that however right here’s one more reason why.

A white couple from West Virginia was arrested final yr after a wellness test revealed that 63-year-old Donald Ray Lantz and 62-year-old Jeanne Kay Whitefeather had been preserving two of their 5 adopted Black youngsters holed up in a “deplorable” shed behind their dwelling. In accordance with 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 not too long ago appeared in courtroom 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 harm or demise.

Decide Akers stated in courtroom that she now not finds the unique bond enough contemplating the severity of the costs. She went on to say that she’s by no means seen an indictment like this in her days sitting on the bench.

“It alleges human trafficking, human rights violations, using compelled labor,” Akers stated. “Human rights violations particular to the truth that these youngsters had been focused due to their race they usually had been used principally 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 put up their unique bonds through the use of earnings from trafficking regardless of declaring that they’d no belongings.

Krivonyak acknowledged 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 lady and a 14-year-old boy who had 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.