DSS Supervisor Accused Of Handcuffing Child To Porch Has Been Fired

Wanda Larson

Wanda Larson

UNION COUNTY, N.C. — The woman accused of handcuffing an 11-year-old to a porch with a dead chicken around his neck has been fired from her job as a Union County Department of Social Services supervisor.

Union County officials delivered a letter to Wanda Larson Friday in jail citing “conduct unbecoming of an employee … that is detrimental to the agency’s service … and, gross oversight in the performance of her duties as a supervisor in the child protective services unit.”

Officials said the conditions uncovered in Larsons’ home are appalling.

Larson has worked for Union County DSS since March 2003.

She was promoted twice, most recently in December 2009 to Child Protective Services supervisor assigned to the investigative unit.

Her salary was set at more than $54,000.

She was suspended in May 2012, but DSS would not explain why.

Last Friday, when she was arrested, she was suspended again until she was fired Friday.

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