August 3, 2025
White Couple Sentenced to 375 Years for Enslaving Adopted Black Children
White Adoptive Parents Convicted of Human Trafficking and Forced Labor of Five Black Children—Sentenced to a Combined 375 Years in Prison In one of the most disturbing child abuse cases in recent American history, a white couple from West Virginia has been sentenced to a combined total of 375 years in prison for subjecting five Black children—whom they had legally adopted—to what a judge described as modern-day slavery. Donald Ray Lantz, age 63, and Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, age 62, stood trial earlier this year after authorities uncovered the horrifying truth behind their carefully hidden life in Sissonville, a rural area