WV pays $4.4M in historic child abuse case after CPS didn’t rescue kids from slavelike conditions

By: Amelia Ferrell Knisely

Outlets: West Virginia Watch

Published: October 1, 2026

Words: 1,047

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago

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Child victims in a gruesome abuse case have been awarded $4.4 million in a settlement with the state Department of Human Services due to Child Protective Services failures in the case.

A white couple living in Sissonville, West Virginia, had kept their adopted Black children in deplorable conditions, treating them as slaves. Some of the children were forced to live in a shed without running water …

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