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What these children we're going through is frankly horrifying and despicable.

There's no other way to describe it.

Knaw County Assistant Prosecutor Deborah Rusnick describes to KGNS TV the treatment of three

of five adopted black children aged 5 to 16 by their adoptive white parents forced to work during hard labor.

The oldest girl and her teenage brother were locked in a shed when they were rescued.

Now those parents, Gene K. Whitefeather, 63, and Donald Lance, 65, will spend years locked up themselves in prison. White Feather was sentenced to 215 years. Her husband

received 160 years. This case began when law enforcement followed up on a call for a welfare

check. Conall County Sheriff's deputies went to the Sissomville home after a neighbor reported

seeing Lance lock a girl and her teenage

brother in a shed and leave. Deputy H.K. Burdette called out to those in the shed. And one of them

replied, ma'am, I'm unable to open the door from the inside. A crowbar had to be used to get them out.

Later, the deputy testified in court about opening the door. I was repulsed for the lack of a

better term. As soon as the door was open, the heat from inside hit us. The smell was, it made my eyes water.

Conditions inside the shed were unimaginable. There was a table in one chair,

um, no running water, um, no circulating air, uh, no beds, uh, very, the, the toilet for the children

was a look like a hospital pan or like a camping toilet.

The children said they slept on the concrete floor and had been locked in for at least 12

hours before they were found. An indictment alleged the children were forced labor because

of their race. The parents were charged with human trafficking, child neglect, forced labor

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