North Carolina man admits chaining foster child to porch with dead chicken around his neck
North Carolina man pleaded guilty Wednesday to chaining an 11-year-old boy to a porch with a dead chicken around his neck
Dorian Harper agreed to plead guilty to six felonies and one misdemeanor to cut in half the maximum time he could have spent in prison from more than 20 years to no more than 10 ½ years, reported WBTV-TV.
The 58-year-old Harper rejected a plea agreement earlier in the week, before the trial began, but he agreed to plead guilty after a jury was seated so the children in his care would be spared from testifying against him. Harper told the judge he still loved the children and apologized to them.
Prosecutors said the boy, who was a foster child, was victimized along with five other children in the home.
The foster child was chained day and night, and Harper did not dispute that he starved the boy, burned him with electrical wires, and used pliers on his hands.
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