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A white couple from rural West Virginia is back behind bars after a judge revoked the initial bond and raised it to $500,000 apiece — more than double the amount they faced last year when police arrested the pair on charges of locking their adopted Black children in a barn and forcing them to work as “slaves.”

Donald Ray Lantz, 63, and Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, 62, both of Sissonville, were ordered to reappear in Kahanwha County Court on June 11, more than eight months after each posted a $200,000 bond following their arrests in October. 

At the time, police conducting a wellness check at the Cheyanne Lane home were shocked to discover two of the couple’s five adopted children living in deplorable conditions, padlocked inside a ramshackle storage shed on the back of the property, which had no working lights or running water.

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[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 45 points 4 days ago

About an hour later, Whitefeather returned home and guided deputies to another 6-year-old girl who was visiting with another couple from their church.

Good Christian folks, I see.

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago

Um, they need to check everyone at the church.

[-] sunzu@kbin.run 14 points 4 days ago

Religion and abuse go hand in hand... There is a reason for this.

Christian here only due to sample...

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