Shining a light on Human Trafficking: Local efforts to protect the vulnerable
Law enforcement and advocates are raising awareness about how traffickers target the vulnerable, including children, and what ...
Law enforcement capture Charleston sex trafficking fugitive
Officials announced the Tuesday capture of a Charleston fugitive that was wanted on federal charges related to the sex trafficking of multiple victims, including a minor.
Human trafficking, forced labor trial to continue in Kanawha County this week
The human trafficking, child abuse and forced labor trial for Sissonville couple Jeanne Whitefeather and Donald Lantz will continue Tuesday.
'Don't call her my mother, please. That's my only request to you,' teen asks on the stand
She said Whitefeather laughed at them through the cameras and called them "stupid." She described being made to stand all day ...
‘Do not call her my mother’: Teenager testifies against former adoptive parents in trial
The trial of a Sissonville couple accused of human trafficking reached a tipping point on day four. In The State of West ...
Barn surveillance footage shown to jury in day three of Sissonville human trafficking trial
New security footage took a jury inside the shed attached to a Sissonville barn days before kids were found locked inside.
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Maryland man gets 18 years for operating multi-state sex trafficking ring
A Maryland man who used the drug dependencies of multiple women to control and force them into commercial sex work, including ...
White mother accused of treating Black adopted kids as ‘slaves’ said they liked being kept in barn, trial told
Jeanne Whitefeather, 62, and Donald Ray Lantz, 61, are charged with human trafficking, child abuse and forced child labor ...
Abusive West Virginia parents forced adopted children into back breaking manual labor, court hears
The white couple from West Virginia accused of locking their adopted black kids in barn also forced them into grueling manual ...