A West Virginia couple has been sentenced to decades in prison for abusing and enslaving their Black adopted children, forcing them to perform heavy labor and endure inhumane conditions. Donald […] ...

The West Virginia couple, who are white, forced their adopted children, ... Ms. Whitefeather was sentenced to up to 215 years in prison and will be eligible for parole in 49 years, ...

Judge Akers condemned the couple for relocating the five Black siblings, aged five to 16, to West Virginia in 2023, where they were forced to sleep on the floor and use buckets as toilets.

A white West Virginia couple convicted of abusing their five adopted Black children and forcing them to work as slaves was sentenced to up to 375 years collectively in state prison.. Jeanne ...

WEST VIRGINIA (WCHS) — A couple accused in bank robberies spanning West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Virginia were sentenced to prison Monday. William Birdsall, 51, and Jaqueline Elizabeth Havens ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia couple received the maximum sentences of decades in prison Wednesday for abusing their adoptive children, which included heavy labor, locking them in ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia couple received the maximum sentences of decades in prison Wednesday for abusing their adoptive children, which included heavy labor, locking them in ...

The couple, who are white, adopted the five Black siblings while living in Minnesota, moved to a farm in Washington state in 2018, then brought the family to West Virginia in May 2023, when the ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia couple received the maximum sentences of decades in prison Wednesday for abusing their adoptive children, which included heavy labor, locking them in bedrooms ...