Summary
A West Virginia couple, Jeanne Kay Whitefeather and Donald Lantz, received prison sentences of 215 and 160 years, respectively, for forcing their five adopted Black children into slave labor.
Authorities discovered the abuse after a welfare check revealed children locked in a shed without water or sanitation.
The couple, charged with human trafficking, child neglect, and forced labor, targeted the children because of their race.
The court ordered them to pay $280,000 in restitution each.
Not true, but okay. That’s not the “technically correct” definition; that’s the unambiguously correct definition, and people who have no idea how pardon powers work are coping hard that they upvote whatever they think is true without actually doing any work to verify what they read. As with Reddit, so with Lemmy: it’s a constant on social media, and it’s a constant here that people have no fucking idea what they’re talking about and just vote based on what sounds right to them and what sounds the most authoritative. Evidenced by the fact you can’t go five seconds without reading an upvoted comment by someone who didn’t read past the headline (and then whining that that information should’ve been in the headline when they get called on it or trying to “um ackshually” their way out of it).
Come back to me if this person gets pardoned. Until then: lol.
ok