Boy Chained Up With Dead Chicken Around Neck

[Jazzy]

A social worker has been charged after her foster child was found chained to the porch of her home with a dead chicken around his neck, police said.

The 11-year-old boy was discovered, shivering and alone, restrained by a handcuff around his ankle in Monroe, North Carolina, the Union Country Sheriff's Office said.

Captain Ronnie Whitaker said: "The chicken feet were tied together by a string, and it was hanging around his neck.

"[I'm] shocked and in disbelief that anyone could such a thing to another human being, especially a child."

Dorian Lee Harper, 57, was arrested at the scene, and the social worker, Wanda Sue Larson, 57, who also lived there, was later charged.

An officer was responding to a complaint next door when he noticed the child and investigated. He ended up removing five children from the home.

Larson is a supervisor at the county's social services department.

"While not present at the time the children were discovered, Larson is accused of being complicit in the ongoing mistreatment of the children," authorities said.

The couple had adopted four of the children, aged between 8 and 14, and were serving as foster parents for the 11-year-old found on the porch.

They have both been charged with "intentional child abuse - inflicting serious injury, false imprisonment, and cruelty to animals (based on the condition of some of the family pets as well)", the sheriff's office said.

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What a sick and horrible thing to do to this poor kid. Makes me wonder how they treat their other children.

 

[Nebulous]

People like this should not have contact with other humans.

 

[Jazzy]

It wouldn't surprise me if those children have been sexually abused as well. This horrible incident is the one that's going to save these children from these monsters!