Judge tells caregiver 10-year sentence possible

A judge on Friday told a woman she could get at least 10 years in prison if she is convicted of charges that she exploited two men by making them live in squalor in her DeKalb County home.

Chaundra Renee Faust, 43, is charged with taking in two men -- one physically disabled, the other mentally disabled -- as tenants but then holding them captive for months in a windowless basement room and making them use paint buckets for toilets. Faust is to go to trial Monday or plead guilty; if convicted of all charges she faces up to 46 years in prison.