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Handcuffed Over Hot Dogs: Child Chained to Basement Oil Tank After Mom Says He Ate Too Much | Crime Alert 6AM 01.21.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, Imancy Grace Breaking Crime News Now. Chasity Candelario
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  Speaker 1: says she was just trying to keep her son from
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  Speaker 1: eating too many hot dogs when she handcuffed the eleven
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  Speaker 1: year old to an oil tank in the basement. After
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  Speaker 1: nearly seventeen hours, the boy breaks three and calls nine
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  Speaker 1: to one one straight out to Drew Nelson for more.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Nancy. Prosecutors say what this eleven year old
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  Speaker 2: describes as not an isolated incident. Lebandon County, Pennsylvania District
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  Speaker 2: Attorney Pierre has Graff says the child told investigators this
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  Speaker 2: type of punishment is nothing new.
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  Speaker 3: He sustains this type of treatment and has indeates prior
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  Speaker 3: to this one that he has not ever witnessed his
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  Speaker 3: siblings having the same punishments.
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  Speaker 2: Graph tells Wgal the incident began earlier that morning when
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  Speaker 2: the child was confronted over his eating habits.
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  Speaker 3: She starts braiding him that he eat too many hot
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  Speaker 3: dogs in the days prior, she saw it on the
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  Speaker 3: cameras and he was going to get his punishment.
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  Speaker 2: Graph says. The punishment escalated as the child was taken
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  Speaker 2: into the basement.
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  Speaker 3: Grabbed the handcuffs and she actually handcuffed him to the
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  Speaker 3: fuel tank. Mom then leaves and goes about her day.
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  Speaker 2: The child was left there alone in the basement for hours.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors say he eventually managed to get free, but feared
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  Speaker 2: what would happen when his mother returned.
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  Speaker 3: He goes upstairs and he actually re coughs himself to
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  Speaker 3: his dad because the concern is when mom gets home
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  Speaker 3: and I'm not caught the wheel tank anymore, What's going
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  Speaker 3: to happen to me? What's going to happen to my siblings?
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  Speaker 2: After nearly seventeen hours without food, water, or a bathroom,
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  Speaker 2: prosecutors say the child was able to get a phone
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  Speaker 2: from a sibling and call nine one one. Police responded
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  Speaker 2: to the home, and the child's mother later admitted she
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  Speaker 2: had restrained him. Chasity Candelario is being held in Lebanon
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  Speaker 2: County Prison with bail sit at one hundred thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Drew. More Crime and Justice news.
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  Speaker 2: After this, an Ohio nursing home resident dies from hypothermia
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  Speaker 2: after walking out an unlocked door overnight, later being found outside.
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  Speaker 2: Her family now filing suit as criminal charges move forward.
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  Speaker 2: WJW reports the civil lawsuit is pending in Cuyahoga County.
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  Speaker 2: Criminal charges against a nurse are also active. The case
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  Speaker 2: centers on what happened during a ten hour gap when
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  Speaker 2: Alvera Mudy was unaccounted for. She was eighty four years old,
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  Speaker 2: a patient at the Avenue at Warrensville Care and Rehabilitation Center.
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  Speaker 2: On the evening of December twenty third, twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: Mudy was last seen in her room around eight forty pm.
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  Speaker 2: She used a wheelchair and could not walk without help.
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  Speaker 2: A nurse checked in around nine thirty pm, Muty was gone.
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  Speaker 2: No missing person report was made, no search was started,
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  Speaker 2: no supervisor or police were notified. The nurse later told
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  Speaker 2: police she assumes Muty had left with a family member.
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  Speaker 2: Even so, do you.
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  Speaker 4: Check if somebody came in to grab her? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: checked to see if some one had came in, though.
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  Speaker 2: I did not see that. There was no physics her
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  Speaker 2: sign out record. The exit door near Mudie's room was unlocked.
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  Speaker 2: It led to stairs and an outdoor patio. The door
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  Speaker 2: locked behind her and could not be opened from the outside.
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  Speaker 2: Around twelve thirty six am, the nurse says she tried
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  Speaker 2: calling family members, no one answered. She continued her shift.
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  Speaker 2: Around six thirty am, the nurse told her supervisor she
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  Speaker 2: had not seen Muty all night. A code purple was
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  Speaker 2: finally called.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Amiral Concord Avenue.
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  Speaker 2: I have a resident who eloped.
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  Speaker 4: And she is missing.
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  Speaker 2: Police responded. Shortly after seven thirty am. Mudi was found
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  Speaker 2: outside on the patio. She was lying on her back
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  Speaker 2: in a corner. She was unresponsive and called to the touch.
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  Speaker 2: She was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead later
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  Speaker 2: that morning. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner ruled the cause
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  Speaker 2: of death environmental exposure with hypothermia. Mudie's brother arrived after
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  Speaker 2: learning she had been found.
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  Speaker 1: I've never got a call at night.
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  Speaker 4: I got a call this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what they do there. Okay, but's wrong.
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  Speaker 2: The nurse on duty was Amber Henderson. She was later
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  Speaker 2: indicted on one count of involuntary manslaughter, one count of
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  Speaker 2: patient neglect, and one count of tampering with records. In
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  Speaker 2: addition to failing to report Muty missing, prosecutors say she
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  Speaker 2: also falsified the required documentation. Henderson has pleaded not guilty.
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  Speaker 2: Her next court appearance a schedule for January twenty seventh.
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  Speaker 2: The lawsuit names Henderson and the facility's owners as defendants.
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  Speaker 2: It alleges wrongful death, recklessness, and negligence. The filing claims
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  Speaker 2: the facility was understaffed and improperly secured, and failed to
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  Speaker 2: protect a resident assessed as being at risk of elopement.
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  Speaker 2: The cases being handled in Cuyahogy County Common Please Court.
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  Speaker 2: A child abuse case is unfolding in Louisiana after a
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  Speaker 2: kindergarten age boy is found dead weighing less than a
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  Speaker 2: house cat, and investigators say his parents starved him to death.
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  Speaker 2: Marley Perelou was five. Investigators say he was bedridden and
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  Speaker 2: apparently never left the apartment where he lived with his
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  Speaker 2: family in guy Ma, Louisiana. His parents are Marlon Perelieu,
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  Speaker 2: aged thirty three, and Raynisi, a young twenty seven. Both
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  Speaker 2: are charged with negligent homicide, cruelty to juveniles, drug offenses,
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  Speaker 2: and weapons violations. The parents are jailed in Ascension Parish
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  Speaker 2: with no bond. Charges could still be upgraded. Investigators say
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  Speaker 2: the case came to light on New Year's Day. Deputies
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  Speaker 2: were dispatched after the parents called nine to one one
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  Speaker 2: asking for help. They met law enforcement at a gas
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  Speaker 2: station off Highway seventy three. Deputies began life saving efforts immediately.
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  Speaker 2: Ascension Parish Sheriff's Colonel Donald Capello tells WAFB.
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  Speaker 4: They start a CPR on a child and within a
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  Speaker 4: couple minutes, the child is transported to a local hospital,
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  Speaker 4: where they continue to work on a child for about
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  Speaker 4: forty forty five minutes before the child just passed away.
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  Speaker 4: They couldn't save them.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators say he was severely malnourished. The child was thirty
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  Speaker 2: five inches tall weighed only nineteen pounds. Investigators described trash
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  Speaker 2: throughout the apartment, mattresses on the floor, and debris everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Detectives believe the child died inside one of the bedrooms.
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  Speaker 4: This is probably the worst case of child and neglect
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  Speaker 4: off seeing about thirty four years law enforcement.
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  Speaker 2: Colonel Capello describes the dire physical condition of the child
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  Speaker 2: after death.
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  Speaker 4: To put it in perspective, when the corners come out,
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  Speaker 4: there are body bags for adults and there's body bags
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  Speaker 4: for infants, and his child, five years old, fit in
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  Speaker 4: an infant body bag.
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  Speaker 2: Neighbors told WAFB they had no idea what was happening
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  Speaker 2: inside the apartment. Several said the family had never asked
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  Speaker 2: for help. Three other children living in the home were
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  Speaker 2: removed by the state after the arrests, and autopsy is pending.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators say it is still unclear when the child last ate.
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  Speaker 2: The district attorney says the investigation is ongoing and will
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  Speaker 2: include determining whether any other adults knew about the child's condition.
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  Speaker 1: With this crime alerk I, Nancy Grace