A white West Virginia couple was convicted of using their adopted Black children as "slaves," forcing them to work heavy ...

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

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 ...

Donald Lantz and Jeanne Whitefeather, who are both white, were arrested after two ... human trafficking, forced labor, gross child neglect and falsifying an application seeking a public defender.

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.

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 ...

Jeanne Kay Whitefeather and Donald Ray Lantz went on trial in mid-January and each faced over a dozen counts, including forced labor, civil rights violations, human trafficking and child neglect. 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 ...