‘You Are a Monster’: West Virginia Couple Who Kept Adopted Black Children Locked Away as Slaves Plans to Appeal Conviction as Disturbing Videos, Racist Texts Reveal the Horrific Treatment
A West Virginia couple, sentenced last week to centuries behind bars in a notorious child abuse case, made a last-ditch motion for a new trial before the judge shut them down with a scathing send-off, telling them, “May God have mercy on your souls.” Attorneys for Donald Lantz and Jeanne Whitefeather of Sissonville indicated they…