A Texas mother is behind bars after she allegedly locked her 22-year-old special needs daughter in a dog kennel in the backyard of their home.

Kandy Thompson, 60, stands accused of aggravated kidnapping , injury to a disabled person and criminal negligence, among other charges. Cops in Anson, which is about 20 miles north of Abilene, responded to a home on Nov. 22 after a neighbor heard screaming from the backyard, Chief Daniel Graziose told Law&Crime.

The neighbor took a video of himself confronting Thompson as the victim repeatedly screams "I'm scared." Local NBC and CBS affiliate KTAB/KRBC obtained a copy of the video which shows the kennel as a chain-link fence with a tarp covering the top.

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