'That's my f—ing kid': Mom accused of forcing son to use Pringles can as a toilet while keeping him locked away in closet avoids prison time

An Indiana pistillate learned her destiny this week for hiding her son successful her location aft helium ran distant from his foster family, with prosecutors and cops saying she locked him successful a closet and forced him to usage the bath successful a Pringles tin truthful helium wouldn't beryllium found.

"That's my f—ing kid," Angie Harlan told constabulary officers and agents with the Department of Child Services aft they went to her location to retrieve the child, according to tribunal documents obtained by section ABC and NBC affiliate WPTA.

"Nobody's taking my f—ing kid," she said, portion allegedly threatening to termination the boy.

Harlan, 45, was sentenced Monday to 2 1/2 years successful Allen County Community Corrections Residential Services for felony intimidation and misdemeanor mendacious informing aft initially being deed with 2 neglect charges, a confinement complaint and a mendacious informing charge. Prosecutors agreed to scrap those charges arsenic portion of a plea deal.

After Harlan's apprehension successful August, she was accused of giving the kid pills that she claimed were Tylenol. Her son, whose property has not been reported, allegedly told police, "It wasn't Tylenol. I cognize what Tylenol is," according to WPTA.

The lad had been surviving with a foster household who reported him missing connected Aug. 17. Harlan was questioned by authorities aft the study was made, but denied seeing him oregon knowing thing astir his whereabouts.

DCS received a extremity that the kid was astatine Harlan's location aft she was interviewed, which prompted constabulary to instrumentality and hunt the residence. Her lad was recovered nether a furniture successful a second-story bedroom, WPTA reports.

Agents asked the lad what had happened, and helium accused Harlan of locking him distant successful a closet aft helium ran distant from his foster family. He went to a random person's location first. An idiosyncratic astatine the residence allowed him to usage their telephone to telephone Harlan to archer her what happened, according to police.

Harlan allegedly went to the home, retrieved her son, returned to her location and told him to get successful the closet, which had a keyed padlock. Investigators said she gave the lad a Pringles tin and told him to usage the bath successful it.

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The younker accused Harlan of giving him pills that made him consciousness drunk due to the fact that helium couldn't autumn asleep. While searching the home, authorities recovered 2 medicine pill bottles that the lad said were fixed to him. The pills were Pregabalin 75 mg — a painkiller — and Hydroxyz HCL 25 mg, an antihistamine that tin besides beryllium utilized arsenic a sedative. The medicine had been prescribed to Harlan and her lad said helium "passed out" aft taking them.

When constabulary archetypal came to Harlan's home, she allegedly ordered her kid to get nether the furniture to debar being seen. She besides took him to a parkland connected 1 occasion and made him fell successful a bush, constabulary said.

The Allen County Community Corrections Residential Services facility, wherever Harlan volition beryllium serving her sentence, operates a community-based supervision program, according to officials. It is described online arsenic an "alternative to incarceration for mean to high-risk post-conviction felony individuals."