32 year old man escapes TWENTY YEARS of captivity by Wicked Step Mother

Emergency personnel responded February 17 to reports of a burning home in Waterbury, Connecticut, said city police, who plan to give an update Thursday on all they’ve learned since then about the house and who lived there.

At the fire site, they found a woman – and her 32-year-old stepson.

The stepmother, identified by police as Kimberly Sullivan, had managed to get out safely, police said.

The man – affected by smoke inhalation and exposure to the flames – had needed help.

He soon would admit to police he had set the fire.

And he would tell them why, the last chapter of a hellish tale laid out in a police affidavit and a state superior court arrest warrant obtained by CNN affiliate WFSB.

It had begun, the records indicate, some two decades ago.

The man, now officially called “Male Victim 1,” remembered in his early years sneaking out of his room at night for food and drink due to hunger, according to the affidavit.

By fourth grade, he explained, he was asking other people for food. Stealing it. Picking it out of the garbage.

After his food wrappings were found, he started getting locked in his room. His school repeatedly notified authorities, the document says, and while he was in fourth grade, state social workers twice did wellness checks.

Sullivan told him to claim he was OK, he said.

Eventually, the stepmother permanently pulled him out of school and only let him leave his room for chores, according to police interviews.

“When asked how often this routine was, he stated ‘nearly every day,’” the affidavit says.

When he was around 14 or 15, he went with his father to dispose of yard waste, the affidavit reads. It was the last time he left the property.

Then his father died, and the alleged captivity got even more restrictive, he told police.

“[The man] stated that it got to a point where the only time he would ever be out of the house once his father died was to let the family dog out in the back of the property. Stating it was only about 1 minute a day. Essentially, [he] was locked in his room between 22 to 24 hours a day,” according to the affidavit.

After the fire, Sullivan was arrested. She faces charges, including for assault, kidnapping and cruelty, police said.

Sounds like a Stephen King story.

People are sick.

Get her.

So where was the son in the obituary?

If this is the father, married to "Kim"?

Her take on what happened is different.

All that’s been alleged, her lawyer told reporters Wednesday outside court, is “absolutely not true.”

“He was not locked in a room. She did not restrain him in any way,” attorney Ioannis Kaloidis said. “She provided food. She provided shelter. She is blown away by these allegations.”

She is being held on $300,000 bond, state Correction Department records show.

“Ms. Sullivan is presumed innocent,” Kaloidis told CNN in a statement. “The warrant details allegations that must be proven at trial. My client maintains her innocence and looks forward to clearing her name.”

After the fire, an officer who saw the man described him as “extremely emaciated.”

He stood 5-foot-9 and weighed 70 pounds. All his teeth looked rotten. But he could talk. And according to the affidavit, he told first responders: “I wanted my freedom.”

Waterbury’s police chief called the man’s 20 years of suffering “heartbreaking and unimaginable.”

“This case required relentless investigative effort, and I commend the dedication of our officers and the Waterbury State’s Attorney’s Office,” Chief Fernando Spagnolo said in a statement.

While performing search warrants, the affidavit says, police found plywood and a lock on the door to the man’s room.

[quote] Keith William Sullivan January 30, 1958 - August 8, 2019

[quote] Mr. Keith William Sullivan, 61 of Waterbury, died unexpectedly on Monday August 5, 2019 at St. Mary’s Hospital.

[quote] Keith was born in Waterbury, on January 30, 1958, son of the late William R. and Mildred (Grimes) Sullivan. He attended Kennedy High School and worked as an exterminator for Waltham Exterminating for 10 years until his retirement in 2018. Prior to Waltham, he worked at Rent-A-Center for 10 years and Sonitrol Security, also for 10 years. Keith was an excellent cook and enjoyed gardening and art.

[quote] Keith is survived by a sister, Kellie Johnson of Waterbury; five brothers, Kevin Sullivan, Kregg Sullivan and his wife Kim, all of Waterbury, Kriss Sullivan and his wife Anna Marie of Thomaston, Kyle Sullivan of Watertown and Kurt Sullivan and his wife Coleen of Woodbury. He also leaves an aunt and uncle, Arlene and William Flanagan of Stuart, FL; as well as many nieces, nephews, cousins and his faithful canine companion, Mooch.

No mention of a wife, R5.

But if this is the father, then his body should be exhumed, and checked for foul play.

Because the obit says he "died unexpectedly," which means she might have done it.

[bold] While performing search warrants, the affidavit says, police found plywood and a lock on the door to the man’s room.

Yeah, nothing suspicious about THAT at all.

Wow, she looks totally crazy.

The makeup is a dead giveaway.

This is the #1 story in CT right now. Everybody's talking about it. That poor man.

Lifetime would be all over this ... if he were a she.

Just read that she was LET OUT ON BAIL.

He dodged a bullet. His father looked hot so he probably is too. If he had lived a normal life, he would already pay child support. Now with the rotten teeth and hypergamy, no woman would want to procreate with him. He can now live the eternal bachelor life with a nintendo switch. We can all be happy for him!

[quote] He stood 5-foot-9 and weighed 70 pounds.

Too fat.

Wasn't this exact storyline played out on desperate housewives with Alfre Woodward

R14, are you the ghost of Karen Carpenter?

Put that woman in prison for the rest of her life.

We're only hearing one side of the story.

For reasons which were well known to him.

R13 going on about "hypergamy" which lets you know he's an MRA troll

R20, right?

That is the weirdest post ever.

Who thinks like this? Normal people don’t- that much I know.

[quote] He stood 5-foot-9 and weighed 70 pounds.

Hmm, a little porker. Could stand to lose a few.

I guess it's useless to ask, "Who's had him?"

Countdown to this appearing as a "ripped from the headlines" story on L&O begins in 3, 2 ...

why was this bitch let out already???????? are you fucking kidding me?

R20 R21 sorry hunties but when he was imprisoned it was 2009. Before crazy 4th wave feminism. He skipped that and is now living in an onlyfans world where women only want to date the top 20% of men.

R26 only dates escorts.

Why did it take him so long to get out - something’s fishy

[quote] something’s fishy

The tuna sandwiches he was given.

Well, it [bold]is[/bold] Connecticut.

Those repressed New Englanders are frightening.

She probably drugged him too, Seconal in the tuna toasties she fed him.

There hasn't been an actual Yankee in Waterbury in decades. It's pretty much a ghetto shithole now with a few whites left.

Holyland!

Waterbury still has the cross.

Electric Chair for this rancid CUNT!!

[quote] Why did it take him so long to get out - something’s fishy

Your rotten pussy, feminazi!

[quote] why was this bitch let out already???????? are you fucking kidding me?

White female privilege.

This is a crazy and sick story. The poor man. He’s been a starving prisoner for his entire adolescence and adulthood so far.

It’s a huge failure on the town’s part. They knew there was a boy living there who went to school… and then he didn’t.

At least some people in his life were concerned and made attempts to find him, but what type of retaliations were they afraid of? What could that woman have done to them if they just barged in the house and looked for the missing kid?

R36 probably supports Trump and the Tate Brothers

Bad Ronald - everything old is new again.

Question - do female prisoners also go hard on female child abusers? I hope so.

How did this kid drop out of a school system?

Unfortunately - there are other kids chained up as we speak. Every few years we hear another case like this.

It's always the stepmother.

[quote] Electric Chair for this rancid CUNT!!

Don’t be hasty. Let’s determine how good looking the “victim” is first.

He stopped attending school in 4th grade? I will be interested to see if this holds up. Sounds like there’s more to it.

[quote] Every few years we hear another case like this.

I prefer the ones where they’re kept underground with no access at all to the outside. This particular stepmother was lax. A minute outside per day to let the dog out! Leniency!

R44, They probably said they'd be homeschooling him. Also, the father would've been complicit for ten years based on how long the kid was locked up, and when the father passed away. There's a lot to this story especially given his seemingly 'normal' siblings.

Did not one miss him at family holidays? It's baffling, one thing if they lived out in the woods, but everyone is on top of one another in Waterbury.

I have a feeling that this is about to be a full-blown media circus, the kind that dominates headlines and has everyone talking - a water cooler moment. The poor guy’s already been through fucking hell, and now he’s about thrown into this shit show . I feel for him, he never had a say in any of it.

Born in 1992?

This is sad but I'm glad he's finally free.

Step mom s definitely crazy. That makes up job...sheesh.

R5

He also had sisters, right?

Serve him Thanksgiving dinner! Doesn't matter if it's late.

That mom’s makeup is the real crime.

what was a the motive?

R52 That would probably make him sick. He's been starved, and will most likely go through a monitored refeeding process. He's lucky his heart didn't give at that low a weight.

The house had storm boards hammered over the upstairs windows

She dresses like a mob wife.

R57 She’s naw Scaws-dale trawphy, believe me.

Is he hot?

Is that a fuckjng cross around her neck?

Grimm...

[quote] Is that a fuckjng cross around her neck?

Yep.

Krazy KKKristians again.

"They probably said they'd be homeschooling him."

Yep, he was "homeschooled"

You all are so quick to judge a mother trying her best.

The elementary school principal knew something was up and reported multiple times.

What is it with these mental midgets? I'd chew through the damn drywall before I'd be hostage for a week.

I like his idea about the fire, though it should have been done 20 years ago. It's what those three girls in Cleveland should have done.

I'm wondering if the victim is perhaps lower IQ to go through life accepting that, while seeing his siblings living life so differently than he was.

What a poor, poor soul.

That woman should be punished in the same way she kept him for the past decades: no heat, no cooling, drinking water out of a toilet, having to filter her pee outside, starving for more food every day, teeth rotting out of her mouth.

Love the mom’s color by numbers make-up job.

He wasn't even mentioned in his father's obituary.

R66 Regarding the Cleveland girls, what happened to them? What are they doing these days, especially the red haired one that no one bothered to report as missing?

5'9", 68 pounds, matted hair and rotten teeth. The cops themselves have taken up a collection to buy him clothes, books and other items.

The stepmother must be hell on wheels to have been able to keep other family members at bay for "fear of retaliation."

Probably put up after the fire, R56.

She made bond, apparently.

[quote]What is it with these mental midgets?

She had been starving him for years before he was locked up, he never stood a chance.

R5/R7 do neither of you have reading comprehension skills?

[quote]Keith is survived by a sister, Kellie Johnson of Waterbury; five brothers, Kevin Sullivan, Kregg Sullivan and his wife Kim, all of Waterbury, Kriss Sullivan and his wife Anna Marie of Thomaston, Kyle Sullivan of Watertown and Kurt Sullivan and his wife Coleen of Woodbury.

The above paragraph from the obituary is listing the names of the decedent's brothers and their respective spouses.

Keith was the victim's uncle. His brother Kregg was was the father and the one married to Kim (the stepmother).

So much of the story doesn't add up. I hope it's not true, because it's so horrible to think that it is.

Aside from everything else: If this man was living alone in the house with his mother, why didn't he long ago reach a point where he decided to overpower her if necessary and escape? It seems from the article that she had to unlock the door to his room to feed him and give him water every day.

[quote] Police chief calls stepson held captive in home for 20-plus years ‘worst treatment of humanity’

Authorities launched an investigation and Sullivan was arrested on several charges, including kidnapping, unlawful restraint and cruelty to persons.

Waterbury Police Chief Fernando Spagnolo held a press conference on Thursday, calling the treatment reported shameful.

“It’s shuddering to think that someone would treat any person, let alone a family member or someone who was entrusted with a guardian or parental figure, in this way,” he said. “Thirty-three years in law enforcement [and] this is the worst treatment of humanity that I’ve ever witnessed.”

According to Sullivan’s arrest warrant, the man was only allowed outside to do chores for his stepmother.

Eventually, he was allowed to let their dog out, which meant that he was outside of the room for about a minute a day.

The man said he was pulled out of school in the fourth grade and had no contact with anyone outside of the home.

He said the last time he left the house was with his father when he was 14 or 15 years old.

The man also shared that only his stepmother, his now deceased father, two half sisters and deceased grandmother knew of the situation.

Neighbors said they were shocked to hear about what was happening.

“I just thought it was an accident, and then when the investigator started asking me about a man that may look like a child, I was like, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about,’” neighbor Zeffery Guarnera said.

Police said Thursday that they first investigated the family in 2005 when other children told Department of Children and Families workers that they were worried about the reported victim after he had been pulled out of school.

Sullivan managed to hide the abuse, police said.

“Officers went to the house. It was clean, it was lived in,” Spagnolo said. “They spoke to the victim at that time and there [was] no cause for any alarm, or any conditions that existed that would have led officers to believe anything other than a normal childhood.”

They just recently learned that the abuse continued after they left.

“There’s a lot of physical therapy that he’ll have to go through,” Spagnolo said. “There’s a lot of healing that he’ll have to go through mentally.”

New details after man allegedly held captive by stepmother for 2 decades is rescued

I wonder what food he’d like to eat first.

Filet of stepmother

[QUOTE]why didn't he long ago reach a point where he decided to overpower her

He was 5' 9" and weighed 70 lbs. He couldn't He was in a weakened and debilitated state. He probably had muscles wasting, as well. . That's probably why she starved him.

The cops said he had muscle wasting. One cop said he looked exactly like an Auschwitz victim from the war, and it was shocking.

What did the mother do for a living? where did they get $$$

Religion helps them justify any and all atrocities. Trash.

Was this woman so scary that the siblings thought "yeah, I better not go against the grain" and neglected to help their brother?

This family seems so fucked up.

I'm boggled by the fucking morons on this thread who are somehow implying that this poor guy is "faking" or "there's more to this story."

Even the police were so horrified by his condition that they donated food to feed him.

I swear, some of you here are so disgusting.

I'm guessing it's a pro-female contingent, who are always trying to blame men and absolve women from any sort of blame.

R66 regarding the Cleveland girls, Michelle Knight wrote a book about the horrific ordeal. I have it but I have not read it yet. There's also Amanda and Gina and I believe they wrote books as well. Not sure of the details but Michele and Amanda are estranged from Gina, who was the last person to be abducted.

There was also the local neighborhood character, the Tall Skinny Black Guy who was instrumental in helping them get free. He wrote an autobiography also. I used to have it I don't know where it went

PS all three of the girls have chose to keep a low profile because they don't want to be singled out or in the spotlight. They just want to blend in with everybody else.

R86 I don't think it's a pro-female thing at all. There's always these types of comments on horrible crime threads--the "something isn't adding up" type. They seem to be equal opportunity victim-blamers.

I can't wait for the hairdresser who gave her that triple process to come forward.

The DM has pics of the inside of the house. I'll post the link below

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He was so starved that he stole other kids food at school? If he was skinny and teachers saw this happening everyday they should have been alerted, WTF? Something DOESN'T add up.

The bizarre eyeliner should've been a dead give away she was a sociopath!

I wonder if the kid is mentally disabled/on the spectrum for her to be able to just lock him away like that with no one asking after him or trying to figure out why the kid disappeared.

[quote] If he was skinny and teachers saw this happening everyday they should have been alerted, WTF?

Well, who exactly should be alerted? The teachers were aware of this situation, and apparently the principal DID contact authorities. In fact, apparently there was a wellness check, or maybe several, by cops, who found that he was not neglected. That's very peculiar itself, but it's not like literally nobody was doing anything about it, just nothing effective ever.

Clearly this was a systemic fuckup from the whole town, but of course we have a society which says that parents can pretty much decide to isolate their kids if they want. If teachers start asking too many questions, parents can yank out the kid and "homeschool" him, without a lot of oversight from anybody. I'm sure there are very conscientious parents that homeschool, but 90% of the time it seems like it's part of some fucked up shit, usually something cultish or crazy ass religious. And the potential for serious abuse is ALWAYS there.

r93 if you've read any of the many news stories, the teachers alerted CPS but nothing happened.

He hasn't been in school, he's 32, I was talking about when he was in school, social workers should have been called, CPS it's called, teachers are supposed to call when they see something, where in the hell do you live r95? I don't want to live there

They DID call, r97, when he was in school, yes, teachers and the principal, and yes, CPS. Yes, they saw something was very wrong. They fed him cause he was clearly emaciated, despite his crazy ass stepmother pretending he had a bunch of allergies. Did you even read the articles? Do you have any fucking idea what you are talking about?

Wouldn't want to live where you are either, at least if you have literally anything to do with schools or teachers or public policy.

They did, there was an investigation, nothing happened. Do you have everyone blocked OP that you’ve lost the thread so badly?

[quote]He hasn't been in school, he's 32, I was talking about when he was in school, social workers should have been called, CPS it's called, teachers are supposed to call when they see something,

JFC if you had read any of the many news stories, the fucking school DID call CPS MULTIPLE TIMES. CPS did nothing.

Why don't you fucking READ before you post?

(R97 not OP for my annoyed rant)

I don't understand why, after seeing how malnourished he was and teachers had to give him food, why would CPS stop investigating just because he was then being home-schooled. If anything that would raise more concerns for the child.

R86 probably is the first one to say "There's more to the story" every time a male celebrity is accused of bad behavior 🙄

I don't know r102. I would guess the usual lack of resources, everyone scraping by on stupid barebones budgets that don't come anywhere near to solving real world problems, and of course the strong desire not to remove kids from homes. I do understand that last one. I'm sure it's deeply traumatic and should only be a last resort, but obviously sometimes it's the only real solution.

And of course homeschooling is a factor here. We have this weird and stupid fuckery going on in this country where government, including public schools, are always the enemy for a significant share of people. And some of those people are, like here, batshit fucking crazy and just don't want anybody looking into their craziness and bat shittery.

JFC r102 it's all explained in the news articles. Go fucking read some.

wtf? it's dirty as fuck on the inside...no windows!!! and so much trash and garbage outside

[quote]Pannone told NBC Connecticut he and his team made multiple calls to the boy's stepmom, Kimberly Sullivan, and called the Department of Children and Families (DCF) at least 20 times. The arrest warrant said the student was told to lie and say everything was fine. By fifth grade, he never came back to school.

If there were multiple phone calls AND visits to the home but the kid kept lying and telling the investigators that everything was fine, maybe he was mentally and/or emotionally disabled to some degree even at that young age.

Stockholm Syndrome.

Really the whole family is responsible.

Sorry to sound ignorant, but why are the police donating food and clothes to this guy? Wouldn’t that be the immediate responsibility of social services or welfare people, to rehouse him and ensure he’s cared for until he can start to hopefully live independently.

[quote] Sorry to sound ignorant, but why are the police donating food and clothes to this guy? Wouldn’t that be the immediate responsibility of social services or welfare people, to rehouse him and ensure he’s cared for until he can start to hopefully live independently.

The local police probably just felt bad for him. The day he escaped he still needed clean clothing, socks, underwear, deodorant, shampoo and stuff the hospital doesn’t really provide.

As for food, I imagine he would have struggled to keep down anything richer than Ensure at first.

[quote] Sorry to sound ignorant, but why are the police donating food and clothes to this guy?

Uh, because they wanted to? Most people would regardless of what state assistance he will rightfully be given.

I can’t believe you’re even asking this.

[quote] If there were multiple phone calls AND visits to the home but the kid kept lying and telling the investigators that everything was fine, maybe he was mentally and/or emotionally disabled to some degree even at that young age.

He would surely be emotionally disabled if he had been starved since early childhood.

But typically abuse victims don’t disclose their abuse or tell the truth about their abusers unless approached in a careful way. People have an emotional bond to person and place, especially if it is all they know and they are relying on shelter.

If anybody actually saw this poor man, they would have had to see abuse.

A grown man weighing the same as a 1st grader.

R66 Ha ha, yes, reminds me of this thing about Elizabeth (not so) Smart.

"Almost a year before Elizabeth Smart was found, there was a 7 year old girl named Erica Pratt who was kidnapped, bound with duct tape around her arms, legs and eyes, and left in the basement of a building:

Did she lie back and take it? Hell no. She broke a window, gnawed through her duct tape, and escaped. She was back home the next day before her parents could enjoy the solitude of having one less kid around, and she's only 7 years old."

And yes, refeeding syndrome is a very real thing. Karen Carpenter died from too much pressure on her heart after not eating for years and wasting it away with ipecac.

[QUOTE]What is it with these mental midgets? I like his idea about the fire, though it should have been done 20 years ago

[QUOTE]He would surely be emotionally disabled if he had been starved since early childhood.

Speaking of mental midgets, r66 doesn't seem to have the ability to think critically, does he? It's as though lighting a fire inside a locked room carries no risks at all and would not threaten to kill the person who lit it. This poor guy had a lifetime of deprivation affect his intellectual development. What could possibly have happened to r66 to stunt him so?

R113- If he was starved since childhood, there will be intellectual deficits as well since he didn't get the proper nutrients necessary for brain development. Never mind an education or stimulating environment. Brain maturation continues through the mid-twenties.

The principal tried. Somehow wellness checks said “no neglect”.

I thought of that, R108. But if it was Stockholm Syndrome, what finally prompted the poor guy to move beyond that and do something to escape when he was 32, by which time he was emaciated and had been held captive for 20 years?

Amateur!

TWENTY years?!?

Twenty years too long, I say!

Any photo of the 32 year old?

What did the mother do for a living? How did they survive?

Fuck you stupid old lez, yes I did read it, you're the same one that never wants to rock the boat, old people need to die, hows this hurricane season looking lez? Got papa all bundled up?

The half sisters should be boiled in oil.

It happens all the time. Reason: jealous mothers. Sad!

70lbs? Pfft. Amateur.

R65, I’m sure he feels tremendous guilt, but the principal comes off well. The stepmother filed a harassment complaint against him after the first few wellness checks.

[quote] Biological mother of Connecticut man allegedly held captive by stepmom for decades speaks out

The biological mother of the Connecticut man who was allegedly held captive and starved by his stepmother for more than two decades says she is "proud of him" for escaping — and his captor can "rot in hell."

The man’s biological 52-year-old mother told NBC Connecticut on Monday she had been looking for a sign of her son for decades after giving up custody of him when he was a baby. Last week, she found out the harrowing news from her sister.

"My sister actually called me while I was at work and she had stated we found [her son]. We found him," the mother, who wants to remain anonymous, told NBC Connecticut.

"I’m heartbroken," she added. "I still just can’t fathom it. How can anybody treat somebody like that?"

The mother, along with her daughter — the victim’s half-sister — said they scoured the internet for him once he became an adult.

"I just want him to know that he has a big sister, and I’ve always known he’s existed, and I’ve always loved him, and I’ve always been trying to find him. I’ve been looking for him for over a decade. I wanted to wait till he was 18. I’m almost 35 now. And … there was nothing. No social media, no court records, no ancestry information, nothing," the half-sister said.

At Sullivan’s arraignment, prosecutors said the stepson, who was 5-feet-9 and weighed 68 pounds when he was found, told authorities he had been locked inside an 8-by-9-foot room since the fourth grade. He told authorities he was let out in the mornings for 15 minutes to two hours to do chores and was given two sandwiches a day and the equivalent of two small bottles of water.

The victim's biological mother told NBC Connecticut she is demanding charges against the family that held him in that Waterbury home.

"All of them in that home…need to get…charged, and she needs to actually spend the rest of her life in solitary confinement and fed two cups of water a day," she said.

She's hopeful to be connected with her biological son soon.

"He does have everybody here, on both sides, on both sides of his family that love him, and have looked for him," the mother said. "We all love him. I love him. He’s so strong, and I’m so proud of him for doing what he needed to do. I wish he did it sooner."

For the purposes of cultural enrichment, I want to donate him a copy of Strait-Jacket

[quote] All of them in that home…need to get…charged, and she needs to actually spend the rest of her life in solitary confinement and fed two cups of water a day," she said.

It’s the appropriate punishment.

R130 is a regular Chief Justice John Marshall, isn't she?

Wasn’t this the plot of “A Little Life?

R112 I'm asking because I'm not an American. In most countries the guy would have immediately been taken in by social services, put into hospital to monitor his health, and clothed and fed. It wouldn't be left to the emergency services to feed him and donate him clothes

It isn’t left to emergency services to donate things. They wanted to. In a lot of places hospitals do not provide clothes other than gowns and personal grooming products beyond body a Cetaphil style cleanser in the showers. A social worker will purchase necessary items once they are assigned him. I am sure you know that the social care network is America is not what it is in Sweden. But as it is a Connecticut town and he was one of theirs. And as he literally has no belongings, they passed the hat around and probably gave him some things to make his stay in hospital more homey, blankets and comfortable sweats and books and stuff.

Half sister speaks out:

[quote] But as it is a Connecticut town and he was one of theirs.

Waterbury is a shithole. People who aren't familiar with CT would be shocked at how nasty a lot of CT is.

"...plans to plead NOT GUILTY to the charges"

HOW THE FUCK do you plan on denying what everyone can see with their eyes?

Seriously? What defense does she think she can mount to deny that she locked him up and starved him? And his own SISTERS just let it go too...how can they live with themselves?

[quote] Man held captive for 20 years asks prosecutors why stepmother is free after being charged

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man who told authorities his stepmother held him captive in their home for two decades since he was a boy has asked why his she is not behind bars while awaiting trial, a state prosecutor said Friday.

Don Therkildsen Jr., a supervisory assistant state's attorney, made the remark during a court hearing in Waterbury for Kimberly Sullivan, who pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that included kidnapping and felony assault. Sullivan was ordered to be placed on electronic monitoring, and Therkildsen also asked for house arrest over concerns she could flee.

“This victim is afraid. This victim lives in fear,” Therkildsen said in court. “I introduced myself to the victim, explained who I was. His first question in this fear is, ‘Why is she out walking around when I was locked up in a room for 20 years?’”

Sullivan, 57, posted $300,000 bail after she was arrested March 12. She has denied allegations that she kept her stepson locked in a small room in their Waterbury home and limited his food and liquids so much that he weighed only 69 pounds (31 kilograms) when he was rescued. He is 5-feet-9-inches tall (1.75 meters tall).

Sullivan's lawyer, Ioannis Kaloidis, objected to the house arrest request and said Sullivan has complied with all conditions since she posted bail. He also said threats have been made against Sullivan and confining her to house arrest at one location would put her in danger.

Yeah - when the crimes are this egregious - how are they allowed out on bail?

One thing though - she's NOT gonna have fun in prison once the other prisoners know what she's in for.

And the dead father - it's HIS son - allowed all of this shit.

I hope the two stepsisters he lived with are getting all the condemnation and shame they deserve.

**BEARKING** He has found another older lady on Christian Mingle to look after him.

R135 Half-Sister Heather appears to be a badass non-binary bitch; hopefully she kicks Kim’s ass in the courtroom!

[quote]Sullivan's lawyer, Ioannis Kaloidis, objected to the house arrest request and said Sullivan has complied with all conditions since she posted bail. He also said threats have been made against Sullivan and confining her to house arrest at one location would put her in danger.

Fine, they just throw her in a nice, secure jail and let her stay there while she's awaiting trial. Problem solved.

Timmy shall play him in the movie.

[quote] Timmy shall play him in the movie.

That would be perfect, since Timmy already weighs 68 pounds!

This has Ryan Murphy gay Mommy Dearest written all over this.

Who’s the cast?

[quote] This has Ryan Murphy gay Mommy Dearest written all over this.

It sounds more like Flowers in the Attic, without the incest.

Om glad the state's attorney is advocating for him.

Pictures of the house have been released.

I bet the daughters are pretty and really nice.

My god. Lock her up. And throw away the key.

She sure liked hot pink. Probably thought it was glamorous.

She was too busy fucking the father for a living.

Is there an archive link of r148? I can’t see it outside of America

r153, I made one especially for you.

[quote] What is it with these mental midgets? I'd chew through the damn drywall before I'd be hostage for a week.

Yes, we all know what a real man you are, Mr. Wahlberg.

New NYT article contains this note that the principal observed:

It was there that he saw the boy standing at a urinal, drinking the water as he flushed.

Any news?

Why didn’t he beat the shit out of her? I don’t get it. He had 20 years to do something. He was supposedly let out to do things. He could have run.

[quote]Firefighters found a 32-year-old man who weighed 68 pounds.

Is that even humanly possible? Is he 4’ tall?

He was 5’9”.