DARLINGTON — A Belmont mother who was due to be sentenced Dec. 10 on convictions of child abuse and chronic neglect is now in jail after her attorney successfully argued to have her sentencing postponed until January.

Jamie Lee Weigel, 27, pleaded guilty in October to one Class C felony charge of intentional child abuse causing great bodily harm and one Class F felony charge of chronic child neglect. Both charges are related to her treatment of her two young children.

At a hearing Dec. 10 that was scheduled to be Weigel’s sentencing, her attorney requested a continuance of the case to give him more time to prepare, which the court granted. Weigel will now be sentenced at 2 p.m. Jan. 15.

Lafayette County District Attorney Jenna Gill argued against the continuance of the case. She also asked the court to revoke Weigel’s $6,000 signature bond.

“I thought she should have been sentenced today,” Gill said later by phone, adding that the law allows the court to revoke bail once a defendant has entered a plea.

Instead of revoking the bail, Judge Duane Jorgenson modified Weigel’s bail to a $25,000 cash bond. Weigel was taken into custody and jailed after the hearing.

“She will stay there unless she posts it,” Gill said.

Weigel and the father of the children, Dalton Allen Hopper, 25, also of Belmont, were charged in April with neglecting their two daughters, then about five months and 15 months, leaving them severely malnourished. The younger one was so starved a doctor told investigators she could have died within a week.

Hopper pleaded guilty in November and is set to be sentenced Feb. 4.

The girls have been in foster care since April, according to Gill.

“They continue to do well,” she said.