West Virginia couple charged with trafficking their adopted Black children to be used as ‘slaves,’ authorities allege

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/us/west-virginia-adopted-black-children-slaves-reaj/index.html

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Fun fact is the neighbors called the cops a ton to report them but the cops only came a few times.

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This fact isn't fun at all.

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I mean I find it hopeful that the neighbors never gave up until the kids got rescued. Even in a state like West Virginia which is associated to some degree with the history of the south.

But to each their own.

Hope the kids can sue their “parents” and their church and family for everything they own.

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West Virginia, for what it’s worth, seceded from Virginia at least in large part because east Virginia wanted slavery and West Virginia didn’t.

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They like the economically left part but simultaneously don't like nonwhites much. Not that hard to understand.

Much of the South used to be Dixiecrats before the Civil Rights movement.