By Daily Mail Reporter and Reuters Reporter PUBLISHED: 20:43 EST, 16 November 2013 | UPDATED: 13:37 EST, 17 November 2013 A North Carolina social worker has been charged after her 11-year-old foster child was found chained to the porch of her home with a dead chicken hanging around his neck, a sheriff's official said on Saturday. Wanda Sue Larson, 57, was arrested and charged with child abuse and false imprisonment on Friday after a deputy found the boy shivering and handcuffed by his ankle to the front porch, the Union County, North Carolina sheriff's office said. Larson, a supervisor at the county's Child Protective Services office, was not home when the child was discovered but is accused of being complicit in the mistreatment, according to sheriff's officials.
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A man and women were charged after a boy was found handcuffed to their front porch with a dead chicken around his neck
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The woman, Wanda Sue Larson, is a supervisor for Child Protective Services
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Deputies removed four adopted children and one foster child from their home
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