New security footage took a jury inside the shed attached to a Sissonville barn days before kids were found locked inside. The State of West Virginia vs Donald

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Explicit text messages off one of the defendant’s cell phones are under review during the fourth day of the Sissonville couple’s trial who are charged with 20 counts of gross child neglect, child trafficking and forced labor.

In Charleston, West Virginia, the trial of Jeanne Kay Whitefeather and Donald Ray Lantz has commenced amid harrowing allegations of forced child labor and neglect. The couple, facing charges including human trafficking and civil rights violations,

A human trafficking, child abuse and forced labor case is underway in Kanawha County.Jeanne Whitefeather and Donald Lantz are both accused in a 20-count indictm

The YWCA of Wheeling is committed to fighting human trafficking and advocating for victims. During human trafficking awareness month, the YWCA is highlighting the successes of its Survivors of Trafficking Empowerment Program or STEP.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — Prosecutors are working to convince a jury that a Sissonville couple targeted and abused their adopted children because of their race, while defense attorneys paint a picture of two overwhelmed parents with traumatized children and no help from the system.

A Maryland man who used the drug dependencies of multiple women to control and force them into commercial sex work, including in Winchester, was sentenced Monday to 18 years in

The prosecutors called their first witness on Tuesday. She was a neighbor who lived across from Lantz’s and Whitefeather’s barn in Sissonville where the adopted children were found locked in the barn.

In gripping testimony that lasted nearly three hours, a teenage firlThe teen, who was 16 at the time of Jeanne Whitefeather and Donald Lantz's arrest, is about

The trial of a Sissonville couple accused of human trafficking reached a tipping point on day four. In The State of West Virginia vs Donald Lantz and Jeanne

The fourth day of testimony in the Jeanne Whitefeather and Donald Lantz trial - the Sissonville couple charged in a 20-count indictment alleging child abuse, human trafficking and forced labor – is underway in Charleston.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A witness broke down in tears as she described children carrying heavy objects on hilly terrain at the home of a West Virginia couple who were later arrested after two of their five adopted children were found locked in an outbuilding.