A white West Virginia couple who forced their five Black adoptive children to work as “slaves” were each sentenced to more than 100 years in prison on Wednesday, The New York Times reported. Circuit Judge Maryclaire Akers sentenced wife Jeanne Kay Whitefeather,

A white West Virginia couple has been sentenced to hundreds of years in prison after being found guilty of forcing their Black adopted children to work as slaves on their farm.

A West Virginia judge tears into the "reprehensible and narcissistic" defense of the white couple she says have shown no remorse nor apologized for the allegations of abuse of the adopted Black children they were accused of using "basically as slaves.