Trial has started for a West Virginia couple accused of subjecting their five children to forced labor and locking two of them in an outbuilding.
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“This is a normal family,” Plants said. “They have Christmases. All of them. They have Christmas presents. They have family vacations. They sit around dinner tables and eat.”The couple adopted the five siblings while living in Minnesota and moved to a farm in Washington state in 2018 before moving again to West Virginia in 2023, when the children ranged in age from 5 to 16.
Bailey became emotional several times in describing what she said was the difficulty some of the children had in carrying fencing for the animals, propane tanks, full buckets of water and other supplies between the home, a trailer and a barn as Lantz watched. Video of the physical labor taken by Bailey was shown in Kanawha County Circuit Court.
Bailey said “it was tearing me up,” so she started to take video. When Lantz looked over at her, Bailey said, her husband told her to stop filming, but she continued, replying, “I don’t care.” Whitefeather and Lantz were arrested and the children were placed under the care of Child Protective Services.
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