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Posted on 03/14/2025 6:47:55 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Both sides of his door had been secured with plywood and a lock, the man would later say, to stop him from getting out.
For years, he’d only been given two sandwiches – egg or tuna salad, or peanut butter – and a small amount of water each day, he’d recall, in the storage space where he was held.
But now, he had a plan.
Printer paper for kindling. Hand sanitizer for fuel. And a lighter.
Emergency personnel responded February 17 to reports of a burning home in Waterbury, Connecticut, city police said.
There, 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 started the fire.
On purpose.
After nearly two decades, he wanted his freedom, he told them, as he recounted a hellish tale laid out in an arrest warrant obtained by CNN affiliate WFSB that describes a life of “captivity, abuse and starvation.”
“Thirty-three years of law enforcement, this is the worst treatment of humanity that I’ve ever witnessed,” Waterbury Police Chief Fred Spagnolo told reporters Thursday as he outlined all investigators had learned since responding to the fire.
“It’s really hard to talk about, still,” the chief said. He shuddered to think someone would be treated this way by a family member, a parental figure or a guardian.
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"After the fire, an officer who saw the man described him as “extremely emaciated.” He stood 5-foot-9 and weighed 70 pounds. He was dirty. His hair was matted. All his teeth looked rotten.
Police executing search warrants found plywood and a lock on the door to the man’s room, the affidavit says.
Now, Male Victim 1 – who’s in stable condition at a medical facility – is faced with having to build a life, the police chief told reporters. He’ll have to overcome mental and physical ailments he developed inside the small room in conditions worse than those of a jail cell."
Horrible story. I wonder why she let him have a lighter, though.
The situation got worse when the stepson’s father died last year, the victim told police, per a warrant for Sullivan's arrest.
Talk about parents from hell.
evil witch didn’t “let him” have a lighter. didn’t read the entire story before posting? not to worry...it’s an FR tradition.
All hail TRADITION!
(guilty)
From a different source, people were doing a lot to reveal this stepmother but couldn’t get any response.
“He wasn’t the only one who noticed. Teachers at the school brought in meals for the student after they noticed him stealing food and digging around in the garbage.
“Everyone really was concerned with this child since he was 5 years old. You knew something was wrong. It was grossly wrong,” Pannone said.
The former principal said he and his staff called not only Sullivan — the stepmother — but also the state’s Department of Children and Families at least 20 times.
At some point during the boy’s fifth grade year, he disappeared entirely.
Pannone was told that the boy had been transferred to Wolcott Public Schools, but he tried to look for a record of the move and found no evidence of the boy’s attendance. Later, he was told the boy was being homeschooled.”
Social Services is useless these days except as a threat to conservatives.
yeah, how did he get the lighter? wandering about the home while she was gone?
They visited and the cops visited twice 20 years ago.
No one seemed to have inquisitive natures, curiosity and a nature to probe seem in short supply in modern America.
Of course I didn’t read the entire story. I don’t have much patience for all the ads everywhere, plus having to clean out about a hundred cookies each time I click on anything.
When I was growing up there was a girl in our class named Connie. She was downright vivacious even in fourth grade. She just didn’t come to school one day. Nothing was said about her ever again. I instinctively knew something was off. I have wondered for nearly 60 years now what happened to Connie.
“According to Spagnolo, officers investigated Sullivan years ago over treatment of the victim. However, the abuse continued anyway.
“It’s shuttering 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,” Spagnolo said.
Police revealed 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 victim. The victim had been pulled out of school around that time because they had contacted DCF.”
Does anyone here live near Waterbury? Is there anything we can do for this man? IS there a go fund me or anything? Any way to contact? If this is true, I can’t imagine what this man went through, and is now going through. I am sure social services are helping him, but as an adult I don’t know what they can do.
I like how they left the lighter out of the headline in click bait fasion.
Comparable to something like this:
Man escapes prison using toilet paper -
A convict used toilet paper to wipe up and flush debris created as he cut through his prison bars with a file...
So, how did he get the lighter?
stepmother mug shot
It says how explicitly in the article
He found in a pocket of clothing belong to his father who died.
I’m guessing she was getting some sort of monthly check to be his “care-taker.”
That woman oozes “wicked stepmother” from her pores.
ugh....
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