A woman who locked her 14-year-old son in a squalid trailer and fed him just a few times a week has been jailed for three years.
Amanda Jolliff, 37, pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and child abuse after police found the boy living in a rodent-infested mobile home in Erie, Colorado.
Police said the boy's bedroom window was boarded up, and there was an outside lock on his bedroom door in which he had imprisoned for three and a half years.
Judge Thomas Quammen rejected a defense request for a non-prison sentence.
'Both the judge and the prosecutor said at the hearing that Jolliff will be treated more humanely in prison than her son was by her, with three square meals a day and a clean environment,' Meghan Swella, spokeswoman for the Weld County District Attorney's Office said.
Swella said the boy is now doing well in a foster home.
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