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Days after Kimberly Sullivan, 56, was arrested and charged with assault within the first diploma, kidnapping within the second diploma, illegal restraint within the first diploma, cruelty to individuals and reckless endangerment within the first diploma, authorities have launched footage of her stepson’s rescue.

Within the video, Sullivan will be seen outdoors her dwelling, as first responders ask her who else is within the dwelling.

“My stepson is in right here. I am making an attempt to have them assist him out. That is it. I’ve two cats,” she tells the person.

“All people’s out?” the officer asks, as she says, “Sure.” He then asks, “However your stepson’s nonetheless inside?”

As she says “he is proper there,” a firefighter will be seen popping out the entrance door, carrying one other individual. As she shares concern for her “shaking” canine, authorities usher her away from the scene — earlier than the stepson is positioned into an ambulance.

Authorities turned concerned after an emergency name for an energetic hearth at roughly 8:42 p.m. on February 17. That decision got here from Sullivan, the proprietor of the property that was aflame.

Whereas the fireplace was rapidly extinguished and Sullivan was in a position to evacuate of her personal will, the opposite resident within the dwelling, a 32-year-old man, wanted help from Waterbury Hearth Division’s Hearth personnel.

He was subsequently handled by emergency medical responders. It was solely when police started speaking to the person that they uncovered that it was he who had began the fireplace — and why.

“Whereas receiving medical care [for smoke inhalation], the male sufferer disclosed to first responders that he had deliberately set the fireplace in his upstairs room,” officers mentioned in a assertion concerning the case.

As for why he began the fireplace, they mentioned he informed them merely, “I wished my freedom.”

“He additional alleged that he had been held captive by Sullivan since he was roughly 11 years outdated,” the assertion continued. In response to CBS affiliate WFSB, which shared the complete arrest affidavit, the person allegedly spent these years locked inside an 8-foot by 9-foot room.

The alleged sufferer “lit a fireplace with some hand sanitizer, some paper from a printer, and he lit that fireplace whereas he was locked in that room from the surface,” mentioned a prosecutor in courtroom, per WFSB.

“He lit that fireplace very properly figuring out he may die,” the prosecutor continued, “however he had been locked within the room for 20 years, and for 20 years he’d been making an attempt to get out of that room.”

The person’s preliminary feedback triggered an investigation as he was discovered to be in a “severely emaciated situation,” weighing simply 68 kilos, in line with WFSB.

“Investigators additional found that he had been supplied with solely minimal quantities of meals and water which led to his extraordinarily malnourished situation,” the police assertion added.

The person purportedly informed authorities he was given solely two cups of water per day and was typically pressured to drink out of the bathroom. It was additionally decided he “had not obtained medical or dental care” throughout his many years inside the house.

The affidavit additional particulars the person’s allegations that he was pulled from faculty within the fourth grade and solely allowed out of his room to do chores or to let the canine out, spending roughly 22 hours locked within the room.

He additional informed police he’d had no contact with anybody outdoors the house, and that the final time he’d left the home was along with his now-deceased father when he was 14 or 15 years outdated. He added that solely his two half-sisters and a deceased grandmother knew of his scenario.

He mentioned that his concern of dropping the minimal meals and water he was given, and that he is perhaps locked in even longer, stored him from making an attempt to interrupt out.

Because of the person’s assertion, investigators concluded that the sufferer had been pressured to endure “extended abuse, hunger, extreme neglect, and inhumane therapy,” resulting in an arrest warrant being issued for Sullivan.

Lawyer Ioannis A. Kaloidis mentioned the suspect’s late husband Kregg Sullivan — who died in 2024 — “was in management” of the scenario and was the one who determined to restrict his son to a 8-foot by 9-foot room beginning on the age of 11.

“Finally it was the daddy which dictated the style through which his son was raised and my shopper was solely finishing up his orders,” Kaloidis informed PEOPLE, earlier than additionally denying the stepson’s claims that he wasn’t allowed to bathe. “My shopper inspired him to wash however she shouldn’t be going to power a 32-year-old man to deal with himself,” Kaloidis mentioned.

The legal professional additionally claimed the person was by no means locked in his room and left the home each day for chores, like taking the trash. Per Kaloidis, “He may have simply walked away then if he wished to go away.”

“This is only one facet of the story and folks shouldn’t rush to judgment. These allegations are horrific however there are two sides to each story, and my shopper plans to defend herself towards these allegations,” Kaloidis concluded.

Whereas Sullivan’s lawyer is shifting blame to her late husband, the stepson spoke extra favorably about him when speaking to police concerning the alleged abuse.

In response to Sullivan’s arrest affidavit, the person said that he would “be let loose of his room for longer durations of time by his father” and claimed “that whereas Sullivan took his sisters to occasions and to see associates, his father would enable him to return out and watch tv with him.”

“When discussing his father dying, he said that his captivity and restraint bought even worse,” mentioned police. “[He] said that it bought to some extent the place the one time he would ever be out of the home as soon as since his father died was to let the household canine out behind the property.”

Sullivan was launched Thursday after posting $300,000 bail; she’s due again in courtroom on March 26.

In case you are experiencing or witness little one abuse, name the Childhelp Nationwide Youngster Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Youngster or 1-800-422-4453, or go to www.childhelp.org. When you consider a toddler is in quick hazard, name 911.