Woman arrested for holding her stepson captive for 20 years

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Current Events » Woman arrested for holding her stepson captive for 20 years
https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2025/03/13/what-to-know-about-the-conn-woman-who-allegedly-held-stepson-captive-for-20-years/?amp=1

A 56-year-old Connecticut woman is facing kidnapping and assault charges for allegedly keeping her stepson, now 32, locked in a room since he was pulled out of school in fourth grade.


Kimberley Sullivan, of Waterbury, appeared in court Wednesday; her bond was set at $300,000. She was released on bond Thursday, according to a lawyer representing her.


The man was discovered after he intentionally set a fire last month in the 8-by-9-foot back storage space on the second floor where he was locked in from the outside with a sliding bolt lock, according to an affidavit filed in court.

Holy shit
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Jesus!
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thats crazy
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GregsMedley posted...
What a horrific thing to go through. Truly just heartbreaking.

Fuck this guy.

Lawyers are scum sometimes
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wtf
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I really hope that guy can be rehabilitated. He has a long road ahead and will need lots of care.

GregsMedley posted...

Fuck this guy.


haloiscoolisbak posted...
Lawyers are scum sometimes

Part of our legal system is a right to a vigorous defense. That lawyer does look and sound hilariously like a stereotype, though. Great pocket square. I'm sure they weren't lining up to defend this monster.

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GregsMedley posted...
Fuck this guy.
He's doing his job. Guilty people need lawyers too.
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CableZL posted...
her bond was set at $300,000. She was released on bond Thursday,

Get rid of this shit.

Hope this woman gets the harshest possible penalty.

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Read the article

What

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GregsMedley posted...
Of course everyone deserves a defense but like, read the room and have some tact. Just a shitty thing to say when you consider everything.

it's standard lawyer speak. if he'd gone over the line, that'd be a different story.
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When asked if he was hungry, he said, all day, everyday, my entire life.

Jesus...
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Damn. He essentially said "Fuck it. "I'll live and be free or die here."
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GregsMedley posted...
Sounds like his mother is a real monster.
His father was no better, but he died the year before.
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Makes you wonder how many other children go though similar scenarios. That just haven't been exposed yet.
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Thermador446 posted...
Makes you wonder how many other children go though similar scenarios. That just haven't been exposed yet.
I think about this a lot. There are likely many people held in captivity all over the world and even all over America. Whether it's just people with monster parents they never escaped or kidnap victims.... it's really sad to think about. Like that one case where a man held 3 women for like 15 years or something.
Vyrulisse posted...
When asked if he was hungry, he said, all day, everyday, my entire life.

Jesus...
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Thermador446 posted...
Makes you wonder how many other children go though similar scenarios. That just haven't been exposed yet.

A lot get found as bodies.

He was near starvation, weighed around 68 pounds at 5-foot-9-inches, and had a body mass index of 11, the affidavit reads. Medical staff told police that a body mass index under 16 is considered starvation while under 13 is considered life threatening.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Legally, she's entitled to a fair trail.

Morally, I'm not sure she deserves one.
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Absolutely tragic. Reminds me of the Turpin family from a few years back, but at least they had siblings to lean on, this guy had nobody.
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berlyman101 posted...
I really hope that guy can be rehabilitated. He has a long road ahead and will need lots of care.
Christ, I'm not sure that's possible.
Time is a funny thing, you know? I guess in the big picture of my life, you were only a blip. But oftentimes, those "blips" make the biggest impacts.
Imagine being locked in some room with an evil stepmom since you were in 4th grade.
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Christ. He basically missed out on his whole life.

I can't imagine how emotionally stunted he must be.
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This is worse than abusive evil stepparents from cartoons.

Like even Rapunzel and Cinderella at least got fed well enough.
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How does he even re-enter society? I guess it would either be incredibly overwhelming, or incredibly exciting. Really hope its the latter for him.
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The_Popo posted...
How does he even re-enter society? I guess it would either be incredibly overwhelming, or incredibly exciting. Really hope its the latter for him.


I think it would be possible. He'll require years of therapy for both the mental health issues, along with occupational therapy to learn basic living skills. Also, that level of isolation from the rest of society would have left him developmentally delayed with his communication skills and social skills, and he will need help getting caught up on that too.
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I saw this on Facebook. The article said he's only around 68 pounds. It's hard to imagine what kind of life he'll have going forward.
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GregsMedley posted...
Of course everyone deserves a defense but like, read the room and have some tact. Just a shitty thing to say when you consider everything.

If a lawyer doesn't do everything they can to defend their client, it can be grounds for a mistrial.
God damn what a screwed up story. Of course the wackjob father that did not believe in doctors and all that nonsense already died and so is free from the ensuing shit-show of the world discovering this crazy ass family. The mother+the rest of the family that knew dude was basically a slave needs to have the book thrown at them.

*This has similar vibes to that huge incest clan over there in australia I think it was. By the time the world found out about all the crap was going on the father also had already died.*
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Geez. This sounds like it could be the plot of a movie. Like a really fucked up one.

Honestly though I wouldn't be surprised if this got adapted into a movie eventually (or at least resulted in a movie heavily inspired by it). Could even be multiple movies, one about his childhood, captivity, and escape, then another about his reintegration back into society and the court case with the stereotypical scummy lawyer defending the stereotypical evil stepmom.
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that lawyer looks fresh out of high school, what a way to immediately ruin your budding career trying to defend this scum
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ConfusedTorchic posted...
that lawyer looks fresh out of high school, what a way to immediately ruin your budding career trying to defend this scum
Maybe they can make it work like Saul Goodman
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I never knew how good I had it. My parents always fed me. Searching around I found this on an archived reddit topic supporting free school lunch.

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My father was super abusive, he would spend all his money on what he wanted, and wouldn't even pay for my school meals a lot, or apply for the exemptions so I could have them for free
He would regularly not feed me for 2 days as punishment, if I didn't eat at school, I didn't eat.
I know my situation isn't the norm, but it's more common than people realise, there's a LOT of generational trauma around, and how exactly was I supposed to provide for myself? Get a job at 10?

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2y ago
Ahh sorry, my wording must be clunky.
I'm fully for free school meals because although it's nice to sneer "it's the parents job", that doesn't account for abusive parents. Yes it was my father's job, but he refused, and as a small child I didn't have any other option to feed myself, I relied on when I could get free school meals to survive, and even though I'm childfree and will never have a kid, I'd be more than happy to personally pay for a kids food
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Jesus wtf was even her motivation?

Also, defense lawyers have a tough job.
BewmHedshot posted...
Jesus wtf was even her motivation?

Also, defense lawyers have a tough job.

Your only obligation is to keep their best interest at heart, but would be an alcoholic doing that job.

This dude's life is ruined.
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Speaking of keeping people captive one of the crime channels I follow regularly dire trip just covered this case from awhile back about the austrian dude that kidnapped his eldest daughter in the family home's basement (that he fortified as basically a jail) and impregnated her multiple times over the span of 24 years. Because of how absolutely fucked some people's parents are I am grateful for the fact that mine was actually, like, loving/normal sane people.

This one is especially wild because apparently this entire time the "upstairs family" (which was his wife and a whole bunch of the kidnapped daughter's brothers and sisters) never knew about the "basement family". The upstairs family actually lived normal, kind of privileged more upper class wealthy lives while the basement daughter plus all the incest kids were raised as captives that suffered both physically (like the oldest son of the kidnapped daughter was so tall he had to always squat when walking around this basement area) and is understandably all kinds of traumatized.

Like, the crazy dude forced himself on his captive daughter and had her give birth to the point where it was too many kids to raise in that basement, so what he'd do was force said captive daughter to write letters saying "her is another one of my kids. Raise them as one of your own. Don't look for me" (its way more than that but the crazy father was trying to keep the cops from looking for her.....and this worked for many years) while he took certain kids upstairs to be raised basically "normally". (When these incest kids found out years later when this story broke that they were indeed, well, incest kids, instead of being siblings of all the other "upstairs" kids they also needed serious therapy).

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Yeah, saw that video yesterday , and it's beyond fucked. I can't give the wife the botd, and the daughter couldn't for a long time either Surprised she had a relationship with her again.

Amazing what you can believe when you lie to yourself for years, or become so desperate to hold on to your lifestyle.
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What the absolute fuck?? And to act like you are surprised and did nothing wrong?!
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There is a follow up story. Before calling the fire department (allegedly) stepmother had the deadbolt removed.

https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/woman-accused-of-holding-stepson-captive-in-waterbury-due-in-court/3527822/
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Asherlee10 posted...
There are some real evil pieces of shit on this planet.

Actually I think that news articles like this want to make you forget that democracy is being threatened.
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SerperiorThanU posted...
what kind of nonsense is this?


Sir. Democracy is being destroyed in America. This is in my opinion but also on the opinion of many other Americans.
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Mad-Dogg posted...
Speaking of keeping people captive one of the crime channels I follow regularly dire trip just covered this case from awhile back about the austrian dude that kidnapped his eldest daughter in the family home's basement (that he fortified as basically a jail) and impregnated her multiple times over the span of 24 years. Because of how absolutely fucked some people's parents are I am grateful for the fact that mine was actually, like, loving/normal sane people.

This one is especially wild because apparently this entire time the "upstairs family" (which was his wife and a whole bunch of the kidnapped daughter's brothers and sisters) never knew about the "basement family". The upstairs family actually lived normal, kind of privileged more upper class wealthy lives while the basement daughter plus all the incest kids were raised as captives that suffered both physically (like the oldest son of the kidnapped daughter was so tall he had to always squat when walking around this basement area) and is understandably all kinds of traumatized.

Like, the crazy dude forced himself on his captive daughter and had her give birth to the point where it was too many kids to raise in that basement, so what he'd do was force said captive daughter to write letters saying "her is another one of my kids. Raise them as one of your own. Don't look for me" (its way more than that but the crazy father was trying to keep the cops from looking for her.....and this worked for many years) while he took certain kids upstairs to be raised basically "normally". (When these incest kids found out years later when this story broke that they were indeed, well, incest kids, instead of being siblings of all the other "upstairs" kids they also needed serious therapy).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cDFd9m4-Ps

Wow. Can you even imagine how it would feel to find out that your dad had a secret family locked in the basement and that you were the offspring of him and an older sister you'd never met who your dad had been holding captive and raping for 24 years? Crazy how the world has so many ways to fuck people up.
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