Connecticut house of horrors stepmom denies child abuse accusations that came as ‘extreme shock’: attorney

The lawyer for Kimberly Sullivan, nan Waterbury, Connecticut female facing a litany of charges for allegedly abusing her stepson for 20 years, denied that his customer is responsible for immoderate maltreatment successful an question and reply pinch Fox News Digital. 

Referring to bodycam footage released by nan Waterbury Police Department past week, Ioannis Kaloidis said he wholly disagrees pinch really his customer has been portrayed. 

“I person seen nan photos, I person seen nan videos,” Kaloidis said. “I disagree pinch nan characterization of those photos and videos. They’ve been made retired to beryllium nan worst that anyone has seen successful 20 years. I do not spot that arsenic nan case.

“Her look has been plastered each complete nan TV, nan news, nan internet, societal media. Her life has been turned upside down. She has a elephantine target connected her back. She has fundamentally go nationalist force number one. It is simply a tremendous weight that she is carrying. It is simply a tremendous upheaval to her full life.” 

The allegations came to ray aft authorities responded to a location occurrence successful Waterbury connected Feb. 17.

Inside nan home, they said they recovered a 32-year-old man successful an emaciated state, later identified arsenic Sullivan’s stepson.

He said he intentionally group nan occurrence because he wanted his freedom. 

“This has been an utmost daze to her,” Kaloidis told Fox News Digita. “She lived a comparatively quiet life.” 

“Her broadside of nan communicative is rather simple,” he added. “She did not harm him, she did not restain him, she did not imprison him.”

According to an apprehension warrant for Sullivan, her stepson, identified arsenic “Male Victim 1,” said he was held successful a windowless 8-foot by 9-foot retention closet pinch nary aerial conditioning aliases power and without entree to a bath for 20 years.

He was allegedly kept wrong nan closet 22-24 hours per day.

The man told constabulary he was allowed 2 sandwiches and 2 mini h2o bottles each day, 1 of which he would usage for bathing.

He said he disposed of his discarded utilizing h2o bottles and newspaper.

The man weighed little than 70 pounds erstwhile first responders recovered him aft nan fire.

After an investigation, Sullivan was arrested on March 12 and charged pinch first-degree assault, second-degree kidnapping, first-degree unlawful restraint, cruelty to persons and first-degree reckless endangerment.

She has been released from jailhouse on $300,000 bond. 

While Kaloidis conceded that he does not cognize what happened wrong nan location astatine each times during nan past 20 years, he said that Sullivan denies imprisoning her stepson.

“She recognizes that fixed these allegations, nan remainder of her life is connected nan line,” he said. “She’s hopeful that done nan process she will beryllium vindicated.”

“I tin show you that nan allegations were that this individual claims to person been imprisoned successful that location up until nan time of nan fire,” Kaloidis said. “And my customer adamantly denies that location was immoderate imprisonment. As for nan full history, there’s a batch that I expect will travel retired complete nan people of nan trial, hopefully, because I deliberation that’s nan due spot for nan merchandise of immoderate further information.”