We’re studying new particulars within the case of a person who mentioned he was held captive in a Waterbury house for greater than twenty years.
The Division of Youngsters and Households insists they don’t have any data related to the case, however one member of the family mentioned considerations had been raised years in the past.
“It’s so devastating the way he’s been treated,” mentioned William Flanagan, nice uncle to the sufferer.
Flanagan, who moved from Connecticut to Florida, mentioned his late spouse, Arlene, and her sister, who’re aunts to the sufferer’s father, knew one thing was improper once they visited years in the past.
“My sister-in-law and wife went up there. They tried to see [their nephew], and they found out that the boy was being locked in a closet,” Flanagan mentioned. “When they left, she called [child protective services], and they said ‘oh they’ll take care of it.’ They called her back and told her they’d knocked on the door, she wouldn’t let them in, so it was dropped from that point. That is what I was told.”
The now-32-year-old sufferer mentioned he was held captive by his stepmother, Kimberly Sullivan, for 20 years. Authorities mentioned he set a hearth final month to flee the house on Blake Road in Waterbury.
He was simply 68 kilos when rescued, police mentioned, emaciated and on the verge of loss of life.
Connecticut’s Division of Youngsters and Households mentioned in an announcement Thursday that they “…appeared extensively at our present and historic databases and, to this point, have been unable to find any data pertaining to this household” however acknowledged that they expunge data 5 years after an investigation has closed, per state laws.
Waterbury police mentioned they made one welfare test on the request of DCF in 2005, however discovered nothing out of the strange.
“It’s very disturbing because my sister-in-law tried to get it handled then,” he mentioned.
Sullivan is now going through prices together with kidnapping and assault.
Police mentioned two different siblings lived on the house at one time.
NBC Connecticut obtained a Probate Courtroom doc for the property of Sullivan’s late husband that exhibits him signing off as having solely two heirs, and never mentioning the sufferer.
“She did not restrain him in any way, she provided food, she provided shelter — she is blown away by these allegations,” Sullivan’s lawyer, Ioannis Kaloidis mentioned on Wednesday.
We reached out to her attorneys and to DCF for touch upon these new allegations however haven’t heard again.
