Man gets 6 to 10 years for cuffing boy with dead chicken

By MITCH WEISS
Associated Press

MONROE, NC (AP) — A North Carolina man has been sentenced to six to 10 years in prison after admitting he handcuffed an 11-year-old boy by his ankle to a porch with a dead chicken around his neck as punishment.

Dorian Harper was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to child abuse, assault with a deadly weapon and maiming without malice.

Harper told the judge in Monroe southeast of Charlotte that he is sorry for his actions.

Prosecutors said they agreed to accept a guilty plea to spare the children in the home from having to testify at a trial.

Prosecutors said the children had endured enough, living in a filthy house with animals, being hungry and beaten.

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