A mother and her partner have been charged with child abuse and child cruelty after police found two kids chained by the ankle in a Northern Virginia apartment.
The 47-year-old mother and 29-year old man, who live in Alexandria, told police they would chain the 9-year-old boy and his 7-year-old sibling by the ankle to “‘scare them’ so they wouldn’t leave the apartment,” according to court charging documents in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
