Nicole Engler-Harper locked a 5-year-old boy in a bare room overnight for five months and neglected his younger brother.
John Beauge | Special to PennLiveNicole R. Engler-Harper, 43, was sentenced Thursday by Lycoming County Judge Ryan M. Tira on charges of endangering the welfare of children and unlawful restraint on which she had been found guilty in November.
A jury in November found she kept her then boyfriend’s 5-year-old son locked in a bare bedroom at night over a five-month period in 2017 and neglected her own son, then 2. Judge Marc F. Lovecchio when he sentenced Kiper said that animals in zoos are treated better than the young boys were. “She had control and exercised it,” he said. The egregious conditions will have an everlasting impact on the children, he said.
Engler-Harper remained silent at the sentencing but at her trial she testified she was trying to protect Malachi.She had testified the boy had behavior issues, left the home once, put holes in and scraped paint off walls, tried to crawl out a second-floor window, would take razors from the bathroom and hoarded nails.
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