Connecticut house of horror: Man drinks from toilet bowl as stepmom holds him captive for 20 years

Kimberly Sullivan, the stepmother, has been arrested and is dealing with a number of fees together with cruelty.

A 32-year-old man was not too long ago rescued from a house in Connecticut after he set it on hearth to flee the ordeal that his stepmother subjected him to for the final 20 years, police stated. Kimberly Sullivan, the 56-year-old stepmother, is now dealing with a slew of fees together with cruelty, kidnapping and illegal restraint.
Harrowing particulars have emerged as first responders discovered that the person lit the hearth figuring out very nicely that he may have died within the hearth. But it was his separation to get rid of his life confined in an 8-foot by 9-foot room which didn’t have warmth or air con. The man stated he had been held captive since he was about 11 years outdated when he was pulled from college. Since then, he had been held in captivity. He final left residence when he was 14 or 15 years outdated. His father, he stated, used to let him out of the room to do chores and watch tv. Following his father’s loss of life in 2024, his therapy by his stepmother worsened.

‘Drank out of the toilet bowl’

The sufferer stated he was given simply two cups of water per day and used to drink out of the toilet bowl when he had the prospect. Every day, he was given two sandwiches to eat. When he was a teen, he stated he needed to urinate inside bottles and use newspapers to alleviate himself. “He would then roll the paper up, tie it with string he unraveled from outdated T-shirts and ultimately carry it to the kitchen rubbish when he was set free,” the court docket submitting stated.
He was by no means given any cleaning soap and used to wash within the little water that he used to avoid wasting from his ingesting water. The sufferer stated he used to rely vehicles from the window and discovered to learn from a dictionary.
The man has not been recognized however stunning particulars of his bodily well being have been revealed that he weighed lower than 70 kilos and when he was rescued he didn’t have a correct bathe for round two years. He had extreme tooth decay as he instructed police that items of his tooth would break when he ate.
The stepmother’s lawyer claimed that Sullivan would defend the costs as she didn’t do the issues that she was accused of.
The principal of the college that the person attended instructed NBV that the college authorities alerted the police when the boy stopped attending courses however no motion was taken.