r/news • u/FreeChickenDinner • 4d ago

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

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/us/west-virginia-adopted-black-children-slaves-reaj/index.html
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u/amateur_mistake 4d ago

They are now severely traumatized teenagers who are likely being put into our foster system as we speak. Finding someone to adopt them is probably going to be hard.

It is so fucked up.

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u/beaverscleaver 4d ago

One of the children is 6 years old. My daughter is about to turn 6. Can you imagine looking at a child that young and seeing anything less than someone who deserved to be held and nurtured, read to, fed good meals, played with?

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u/IWillBaconSlapYou 4d ago

Six is one of my favorite ages. They're getting really smart, talents are emerging, and you can develop some level of a real friendship with them, but they're still so innocent and cute. Like you can talk to them about what they think life is all about, and they'll give you a whole philosophy that's actually kind of eye-opening, but then they'll ask you to pretend to be puppies with them. My oldest is seven, and this whole age group is just completely awesome.

So freaking impossible to imagine mistreating a little kid =/

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u/Psychological_Fish37 3d ago

Can you imagine looking at a child that young and seeing anything less than someone who deserved to be held and nurtured, read to, fed good meals, played with?

Yeah I can the same ones in Texas that put up razor wire on the RIO Grande and watched people drown, then refused to allow other people to help. Honestly sane and good people let racist and bigots demonize other people so well, that half the country is okay with shit we haven't seen since Jim Crow era.

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u/gardenmud 3d ago

This is so odd to think but, hopefully this case being in the public eye means the agencies involved are more incentivized to get more case workers, therapists, carers etc on them. I don't know how it works behind the scenes at all. Could they somehow get funding for more intensive care? I have to imagine a few thousand people would be willing to donate to this case.