Wealthy West Virginia Couple Who Adopted Black Kids Accused of Locking Them Up and Using Them as Slaves [Video]

A white couple is accused of locking up their Black, adopted children in a barn and forcing them into labor.

Donald Lantz and Jeanne Whitefeather were arrested in October after police responded to a welfare report from their neighbor. When police arrived at the couple’s Sissonville, West Virginia home, they found two of their five adopted children locked in a 20ft by 14ft barn on their property.

The Children were Deprived of ‘Hygienic Care and Food’

The girl, 16, and 14-year-old boy were deprived of “hygienic care and food,” police said at the time. Officers also found a third child, nine, inside an unprotected loft area of the main house.

The couple pleaded not guilty to child neglect charges last October. Kanawha County Circuit Judge Maryclaire Akers handed each a $200,000 bond, which they both posted in February.

Last month, a grand jury indicted the couple on 16 new counts, local outlet WCHSreported. Akers raised their bond to $500,000 …