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A West Virginia couple, Jeanne Kay Whitefeather and Donald Lantz, received prison sentences of 215 and 160 years, respectively, for forcing their five adopted Black children into slave labor.

Authorities discovered the abuse after a welfare check revealed children locked in a shed without water or sanitation.

The couple, charged with human trafficking, child neglect, and forced labor, targeted the children because of their race.

The court ordered them to pay $280,000 in restitution each.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

it is funny that nobody finds this funny.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Movie name?

I think that’s the one where his daughter was raped

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

A Time to Kill

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

While I get what you mean, they were arrested, detained, charged, and convicted by the state. They will be in a state prison. Unless Trump is going to send the military to raid the prison, I don't see the state changing its mind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

he can't pardon state sentences?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

That's why people like Loraine Pellegrino are still on probation for forging the fake electors and trying to steal the 2020 election. MAGA doesnt mention the people that still have charges and convictions against them for their illegal acts. He only could pardon the charges brought by the federal government.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

No, only the governor of that state can do that.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It takes a cartoonish level of cruelty that your verdict sounds like a made up rage bait article that tries way too hard.

Fuck you. I hope they get the same treatment as kiddy fiddlers in prison.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I may have laughed when I read this line from the judge, “You brought these kids to West Virginia, a place as I know as almost heaven and put them in hell,” Either she has a lot of pride for West Virginia or the cartoonist part was present during the trial as well.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Almost heaven, West Virginia. Blue Ridge Mountains, Shanendoah River.

Life is old there, older than the trees.

Younger than the mountains, growing like the breeze.

Country roads,, take me home, to the place I belong"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Funny thing about that--the authors had no significant ties to West Virginia and were instead inspired by a road trip through Maryland. https://www.baltimoreexaminer.com/john-denver-country-roads/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

I’d once heard that it wasn’t even about West Virginia, the state, but rather west Virginia, the region. Dunno about the veracity of that statement, but

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