Mother of duct-taped toddler due back in court

    Caira Ferguson will be back in court today for the charges she faces for allegedly duct-taping her toddler to a chair.

    The 21-year-old will be appear before a judge to find out if she’ll go to trial on child endangerment charges, Action News reports.

    Ferguson was arrested in February after a photo surfaced of her posing with her 2-year-old daughter, who’d been bound to a chair and had her mouth covered with duct tape.

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