A mom in Pennsylvania who couldn’t control her 11-year-old son or his eating habits while she was at work — leading to her locking the boy to a fuel tank and other things for hours on end — is headed to prison after she pleaded no contest to multiple charges.
Chazzity Candelario, of North Lebanon Township, was facing felony charges of unlawful restraint of a minor and false imprisonment of a minor, as well as a misdemeanor charge of endangering the welfare of children, for the alleged abuse. She pleaded no contest to the charges in November and was sentenced Wednesday to serve 16 months to five years in a state prison, local NBC affiliate WGAL reports.
Prosecutors said in court that Candelario, who was 33 at the time of her arrest, restrained her son on one occasion for 17 hours after “eating too many hot dogs,” according to WGAL…