A person rescued from a burning house in the connecticut told a shocking story of cruelty and constant hunger because it was Captured in a room for 20 years According to a new issued arrest warrant, by his father and stepmother.
The person told the officials that when he was about 11 years old, his imprisonment started. He said that he was locked in a room without summer or air conditioning almost all day and night and limited food and water.
Due to no access to the bathroom, they prepared ways to dispose of their waste, including using a range of straws using a hole in a window. Due to lack of dentistry, the pieces of its teeth would break when eating. He saved his daily ration of his two small water bottles to bathe without soap and cut his hair.
The years of cruelty ended on February 17, when he set the house on fire in Waterbury in a deliberate attempt to save himself and told his story to respond to the police and firefighters, according to the arrest warrant, he charged his stepmother with brutality for kidnapping, individuals and other crimes.
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The police is now trying to determine how this could happen, without notice to anyone and whether any warning signs were remembered. Investigators want to see the records of the city’s schools and the state child welfare agency, Waterbury Police Chief Fernando Spagnollo said at a news conference on Thursday.
“Thirty years of law enforcement (and) This is the worst treatment of humanity that I have ever seen,” Spagnolo said.
Now a 32 -year -old man is identified as “male victim 1” in police records. Step mother, Kimberly Sulivan, 56, posted a bail of $ 300,000 on Thursday and was released from custody after appearing in Waterbury Superior Court, her lawyer, Eonis Kaloidis said. He said that Sulivan, who was arrested on Wednesday, denied any wrongdoing. His next court date is 26 March.
“I will encourage people not to hurry to make decisions,” Kaloidis said in a phone interview. “This woman is considered innocent.”
Officials said that the man’s father died last year, while his biological mother was not part of his life. He and Sulivan lived in the house that he set fire.
CBS affiliated WFSB-TV reported that she was at home while she was starting the fire and was at home.
Medical personnel said that the man was near starvation and ruined the syndrome, weight loss and muscle fall, when he met in a hospital, says the warrant. 5 feet, 9 inches long, they weighed only 69 pounds.
He was treated for smoke breathing and diagnosed with post-tromatic stress disorder and depression. Spagnolo said that man faces a long road of physical and mental treatment. He said that the police is supporting him, including taking them a collection to buy clothes and other items.
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The person told the police that he was constantly hungry. When he was in school, he would ask classmates for food, steal food and eat out of the garbage. In later years, when he was out of school and limited to the house, he used to get two sandwiches a day and some water was locked in his room.
The chief said that the only police conversation with the family was in 2005. There was a welfare investigation after the children who expressed concern about them before attending school with them.
On the other hand, the family complained of harassment to the state child welfare officers after a complaint of harassment against school officials. Officials going home said that they talked to the man, then a child, and told that there was no reason for concern, Spagnollo said.
State department officials of children and families who investigate child misconduct, said on Thursday that they have not received any record of agency participation with the family, but continue to see. He said that the report of neglect or misuse is abolished five years after the completion of the investigation.
The department said in a statement, “We are shocked and unhappy for the victim and which they have tolerated in inexperienced circumstances,”. “Now the adult victim has shown incredible strength and flexibility during this time of treatment and our hearts go to her.”
When the man attended a Waterbury Elementary School as a child, the staff noticed that he was very small and thin and made many calls to the stepmother and the department of the children and the families, a former principal of the school, Tom Ponon, told WVIT-Tv. Spagnolo said that the police did not have that information when he responded to the police house in 2005.
Waterbury School officials on Thursday did not return the email messages seeking comments on Thursday.
Sulivan’s other lawyer, Jason Spillka, said his client was surprised by the allegations and rejected him, the WFSB-TV report.
Spilka said, “Absolutely surprised, okay? Absolutely, exactly, surprised,” said Spileka.
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