Adopted Children Forced to Endure Horrific Abuse Awarded Payout
The state will split the award among five siblings who were abused, forced to work and denied basic needs by their adoptive parents.
- Kanawha County Circuit Judge Maryclaire Akers approved a $4.4 million settlement last week for five Black siblings who endured years of abuse and forced labor under adoptive parents Jeanne Kay Whitefeather and Donald Lantz.
- The lawsuit accused the West Virginia Department of Human Services of failing to protect the children despite repeated warnings about slave-like conditions that Child Protective Services failed to properly investigate.
- After a neighbor reported seeing two teenagers confined in a shed, police discovered the siblings living in a barn without electricity or running water; Lantz received 160 years and Whitefeather 215 years in prison.
- Attorney Dante DiTrapano said the settlement allows the children to "reclaim parts of their childhood that they lost," adding they were "robbed of their innocence and robbed of their youth."
- DiTrapano plans to pursue further claims against Washington state's Department of Human Services for approving the family's move to West Virginia despite earlier reports of child abuse.
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'Robbed of Their Youth': Black Siblings Kept Locked Away as Slaves by White Adoptive Parents Reach $4.4M Settlement After State Failed to Intervene
Five Black siblings who endured years of abuse and forced labor while living with their wealthy adoptive parents have reached a $4.4 million settlement with […] ‘Robbed of Their Youth’: Black Siblings Kept Locked Away as Slaves by White Adoptive Parents Reach $4.4M Settlement After State Failed to Intervene
Five adopted Black children abused by white parents awarded $4.4 million settlement after CPS failures in West Virginia; some were forced to live in a shed without running water or a bathroom
Five adopted Black children who endured horrific abuse and neglect at the hands of their white adoptive parents have been awarded a $4.4 million settlement from West Virginia following alleged CPS failures. Some children were forced to live in a shed without running water or a bathroom before authorities discovered them in 2023.
Five Black Children Treated Like ‘Slaves’ by Adoptive Parents Win $4.4 Million Settlement After CPS Failed to Protect Them Despite Repeated Warnings * The Gateway Pundit * by Jim Hᴏft
Five Black children who endured years of horrific abuse at the hands of their White adoptive parents will receive a $4.4 million settlement from the state of West Virginia after Child Protective Services allegedly failed to properly respond to repeated warnings about their welfare.
5 black children treated like ‘slaves’ by adopted white parents awarded $4.4M payout from state
Five black children who were forced to work as slaves by their wealthy, white adoptive parents have won a $4.4 million settlement from the state of West Virginia for failing to rescue them.
Five black children who were adopted by a white couple and subjected to years of abuse received a historical compensation of $4.4 million (about R$ 23 million) from the state of West Virginia, in the United States. The agreement was signed, this October, after complaints about the conditions in which the brothers lived have not been adequately investigated by the Child Protection Service, according to West Virginia Watch.
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