{"id":84001,"date":"2026-01-11T16:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/84001\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T16:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:35:07","slug":"pennsylvania-mother-sentenced-for-handcuffing-son-to-basement-fuel-tank-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/84001\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania mother sentenced for handcuffing son to basement fuel tank \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A Pennsylvania mother was recently sentenced for handcuffing her 11-year-old son to a basement fuel tank in 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/pa-lebanon-county-mother-sentenced-child-handcuffed-basement-chazzity-candelario\/69936819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/pa-lebanon-county-mother-sentenced-child-handcuffed-basement-chazzity-candelario\/69936819\">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=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/pennsylvania-mom-accused-handcuffing-son-fuel-tank-punishment-eating-too-many-hot-dogs\/A3AAQ3ZEYFAENCMQRBHJGQ7GW4\/\">\u201ceating too many hot dogs.\u201d<\/a> He freed himself after 17 hours and called 911. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">WGAL reports that this type of punishment was not unusual for the child. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/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":84002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42070,42078,29834,42079,2467,42080,28,30,29,16041,788,16214],"class_list":{"0":"post-84001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-chazzity-candelario","9":"tag-fuel-tank","10":"tag-handcuff","11":"tag-hot-dogs","12":"tag-lebanon-county","13":"tag-no-contest","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","16":"tag-pennsylvania-news","17":"tag-plea","18":"tag-sentence","19":"tag-state-prison"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84001","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=84001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}