Donald Ray Lantz, 61, was composed Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, as he testified about the struggles he and his wife, Jeanne Kay ...

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

A white mother accused of forcing her adopted Black children to work as 'slaves' with her husband, who is also white, has ...

The second defendant in an ongoing Kanawha County trial of the Sissonville couple indicted on 20-counts of child neglect, human trafficking, and civil rights violation-related charges says their ...

A West Virginia mother denied forcing two of their adopted children to stay in a shed despite police locating them in the ...

Under lengthy cross-examination Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2025, Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, 62, denied that racist and incriminating ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The prosecution rested its case late Tuesday morning in the child abuse, human trafficking trial of a ...

A teenager whose discovery in a locked shed at her West Virginia home led to the arrest of her adoptive parents has taken the stand in the couple's trial.

Donald Ray Lantz, left, and Jeanne Kay Whitefeather are shown during a break in the Kanawha County Circuit Court on the first day of their trial in Charleston, W.Va., Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025.

The oldest daughter's testimony wrapped the first week in the trial of Jeanne Kay Whitefeather and Donald Ray Lantz, who are accused of mistreating their five adopted children, all of whom are Black.