The biological mother of Connecticut man who was supposedly captive and hungry for her stepmother for more than two decades says she is “proud of him” to escape, and his captor can “rot in hell.”
Police say that the 32 -year -old Connecticut man began a fire in the small room that was supposedly locked in his family’s Waterbury house on February 17. The man, whom the police did not appoint but described as a victim, was found severely demacrated after being subjected to “prolonged abuse, hunger, neglected inhuman treatment.”
He told the officers that they replied that he was held captive by his stepmother of 56 years, Kimberly Sullivan, since he was 11 years old, and the fire began because “I wanted my freedom,” said the Waterbury Police Department.
The 52 -year -old biological mother told NBC Connecticut on Monday that she had been looking for a sign of her son for decades after giving up him when he was a baby. Last week, he discovered his sister’s heartbreaking news.
“My sister really called me while I was at work and she had declared that we found [her son]. We find it, “said the mother, who wants to remain in anonymity, to NBC Connecticut.
“I am disconsolate,” he added. “I still can’t understand it. How can someone treat someone like that?”
The mother, along with her daughter, the victim’s half sister, said she reviewed the Internet once she became an adult.
“I just want him to know that he has an older sister, and I have always known that he has existed, and I have always loved him, and I have always been trying to find him. I have not been looking for him for more than a decade. I wanted to wait until he was 18 years old. Now I am almost 35 years old. And … there was nothing. There are nothing social networks, there is no judicial information, no descent information, nothing,” said the mid -minister.
Sullivan faces assault, kidnapping, illegal restriction, cruelty and reckless danger charges in the case. His lawyer has denied accusations.
In reading Sullivan charges, prosecutors said the daughters, who had 5 feet and 9 and weighed 68 pounds when he was found, told the authorities that he had been locked inside an 8 -feet room from 9 feet from the fourth grade. He told the authorities that he let him out in the morning for 15 minutes to two hours to do homework and received two sandwiches a day and the equivalent of two small bottles of water.
According to an affidavit in the case, he lit the fire using a lighter, disinfectant for hands and some paper of an printer.
The biological mother of the victim told NBC Connecticut that she demands charges against the family that kept him in that Waterbury house.
“All of them in that house … They need to be … charged, and she needs to spend the rest of her life in solitary confinement and feed two cups of water a day,” he said.
She hopes to be connected to her biological son soon.
“He has everyone here, on both sides, on both sides of his family who love him and have looked for him,” said the mother. “We all love him. I love him. He is very strong and I am very proud of him for doing what he had to do. I wish I did it before.”
Ioannis Kaloidis, a lawyer from Sullivan, told NBC News last week Sullivan is innocent of any crimes. Kaloidis said the biological father of man died in January 2024.
“I cannot reveal the details of my conversation with my client, but I could tell you that, at the time the father died, this gentleman was over 30 years old. He did not control anything in his life,” Kaloidis said. “He continued to keep the home, continued receiving edible, continued to maintain the lights on, the heat lit and provided a shelter.”
