A white West Virginia couple was convicted of using their adopted Black children as "slaves," forcing them to work heavy labor and live in a filthy shed with buckets as toilets. The post ‘Weren’t ...

The West Virginia couple, who is White, were accused of severely neglecting and mistreating their five adopted Black children ...

Jeanne Kay Whitefeather was convicted of all 19 counts against her, including forced labour, civil rights violations, human trafficking and child neglect. Her husband, Donald Ray Lantz, was found ...

The parents, who are white, face more than a dozen counts including forced labor ... gross child neglect. The children, all siblings ranging in age from 5 to 16, are Black. Day two of testimony ...

Jeanne Whitefeather has denied locking two of her five adopted children in a shed -- despite authorities finding the teens in one back in October 2023.

including forced labor, civil rights violations, human trafficking and child neglect. The couple, who are white, were accused of mistreating their children — all of whom are Black — by locking ...

The U.S. government found child labor violations involving over 3,800 minors in 2022. At the same time, some states say there is too much regulation of child labor. Katherine Walts, director of ...

All three of these announcements come just days before President elect Donald Trump takes office, but they follow a number of other child labor investigations in the meatpacking industry in the ...

Perdue Farms and JBS have settled with the Labor Department after relying on migrant children to do dangerous ... In response to The Times’s reporting, the White House announced in early 2023 ...