Teen Exposes Adoptive Parents' Conditions

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Teenager describes tumultuous life at trial of adoptive parents accused of neglect and forced labor

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The oldest daughter's testimony wrapped the first week in the trial of Jeanne Kay Whitefeather and Donald Ray Lantz .

The couple is accused of mistreating their five adopted children, all of whom are Black.

The daughter, now 18 , was the first of the siblings to testify.

The children were made to stand in their rooms for hours “to prevent us from falling asleep,” she testified.

The daughter said the children were made to sleep in tents on a hill because Whitefeather said “we were dirty and that we stunk” She said she attended public school in Washington until the start of the COVID-19 pandemic but received no formal education after arriving in West Virginia .

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