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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My idiot brother's idiot ex's decision to let their son "homeschool" because he didn't "like going to school" is gonna fuck him up for life. She is lazy af, so he did the bare minimum of any school work. Played online video games with his dad (my brother) from like 6th grade until he dropped out and got his GED at 17. Now he's 19, lives in my brother's basement, plays online video games 24/7. He's terribly socialized, like, not at all. He had a job once for an hour and walked off. My idiot brother drank his way into "permanent disability", I think there's some malingering going on, but who knows, because he's a pathological liar. Somehow he has a third wife, who I guess really loves him but she seems dim, but hardworking. Both my parents are now dead, I live out of state, and threw up my hands a long time ago, since I had no ability to change anything.

But the kid will never have a fulfilling life. I can't imagine him ever having a healthy relationship with a woman (or man). I suspect his mother let him sleep in her bed WELL beyond a healthy time, as he was still sleeping in her bed when they divorced when he was 5. I'm thinking 13 or 14. But we had no way to know. Just a shitshow all around.