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Plea in child cuffed to porch case? A former social services supervisor is expected to plead guilty in a child abuse case where officials say her foster child was found chained to the porch with a dead chicken tied around his neck in 2013.
Union County District Attorney Trey Robison told local media outlets that Wanda Sue Larson, 58, will appear in court in Monroe. She was arrested in November 2013 and charged with child abuse.
Her boyfriend, Dorian Harper, pleaded guilty March 18 to similar charges and was sentenced to at least six years in prison.
Prosecutors said during Harper’s hearing that the boy was beaten and starved and had been forced to sleep on a floor chained to part of a railroad tie.
A deputy investigating a report of a loose pig found the boy handcuffed to the porch with a dead chicken tied around his neck.
Larson had been the boy’s legal guardian for years and was a supervisor with the Union County Department of Social Services. She had adopted four other children who were in the home when the couple was arrested. The children, ranging in age from 7 to 14, have been placed in social services custody in another county.
Robison said he has agreed to a plea deal for Larson, as he did for Harper, largely because he does not want to “re-victimize” the boy by forcing him to testify.
Agencies/Canadajournal
