A Pennsylvania mother is heading to state prison after admitting she handcuffed her 11-year-old son to a home heating oil tank and a bed frame to control his behavior and eating habits while she was at work.
Chazzity Candelario, 33, was sentenced Wednesday to serve 16 months to five years behind bars. The sentence was handed down by Lebanon County Court of Common Pleas Judge Charles Jones following Candelario’s no-contest plea in November to felony charges of unlawful restraint and false imprisonment of a minor, as well as misdemeanor child endangerment.
During the sentencing hearing, Judge Jones expressed disbelief at the situation. “No way… should that have happened,” Jones told the defendant, according to the Lebanon Daily News, adding that she must now do whatever possible to make it up to her children…