{"id":83991,"date":"2026-01-11T16:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83991\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:23:08","slug":"pennsylvania-mother-sentenced-for-handcuffing-son-to-basement-fuel-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83991\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania mother sentenced for handcuffing son to basement fuel tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cbd7c7194bcabdb469124317adab492a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Pennsylvania mother was recently sentenced for handcuffing her 11-year-old son to a basement fuel tank in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/pa-lebanon-county-mother-sentenced-child-handcuffed-basement-chazzity-candelario\/69936819\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NBC News affiliate WGAL reports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NBC News affiliate WGAL reports<\/a> Chazzity Candelario, of Lebanon County, pleaded no contest to multiple charges, including child endangerment. On Wednesday, she was sentenced to between 16 months and five years in state prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say Candelario handcuffed her son to the fuel tank as punishment for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/pennsylvania-mom-accused-handcuffing-son-fuel-tank-punishment-eating-too-many-hot-dogs\/A3AAQ3ZEYFAENCMQRBHJGQ7GW4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201ceating too many hot dogs.\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u201ceating too many hot dogs.\u201d<\/a> He freed himself after 17 hours and called 911.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WGAL reports that this type of punishment was not unusual for the child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pennsylvania mother was recently sentenced for handcuffing her 11-year-old son to a basement fuel tank in 2025.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42070,32353,42071,2467,28,30,29,2812],"class_list":["post-83991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-chazzity-candelario","tag-child-endangerment","tag-handcuffing","tag-lebanon-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-wgal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}