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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Cavallier

Trial hears Black adopted children of white couple were made to sleep on cardboard and were monitored by cameras

A West Virginia jury heard how the adopted children of Jeanne Whitefeather and Donald Lantz were forced to sleep on the cold concrete floor, sometimes on cardboard, locked inside a barn outside their home, while they were monitored by surveillance cameras.

Detective Ana Pile with the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office, who spent hours reviewing thousands of clips from the footage from the couple’s Sissonville home, testified about the shocking conditions on day three of the child abuse trial.

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