The lawyer for Kimberly Sullivan, the Waterbury, Connecticut girl dealing with a litany of expenses for allegedly abusing her stepson for 20 years, denied that his consumer is chargeable for any abuse in an interview with Fox Information Digital.
Referring to bodycam footage launched by the Waterbury Police Division final week, Ioannis Kaloidis stated he fully disagrees with how his consumer has been portrayed.
“I have seen the photos, I have seen the videos,” Kaloidis stated. “I disagree with the characterization of these pictures and movies. They’ve been made out to be the worst that anybody has seen in 20 years. I don’t see that because the case.
“Her face has been plastered all over the TV, the news, the internet, social media. Her life has been turned upside down. She has a giant target on her back. She has essentially become public enemy number one. It is a tremendous weight that she is carrying. It is a tremendous upheaval to her entire life.”
The allegations got here to gentle after authorities responded to a home fireplace in Waterbury on Feb. 17.
Inside the house, they stated they discovered a 32-year-old man in an emaciated state, later recognized as Sullivan’s stepson.
He stated he deliberately set the hearth as a result of he wished his freedom.
“This has been an extreme shock to her,” Kaloidis informed Fox Information Digita. “She lived a relatively quiet life.”
“Her side of the story is quite simple,” he added. “She did not harm him, she did not restain him, she did not imprison him.”
In response to an arrest warrant for Sullivan, her stepson, recognized as “Male Victim 1,” stated he was held in a windowless 8-foot by 9-foot storage closet with no air-con or warmth and with out entry to a toilet for 20 years.
He was allegedly saved contained in the closet 22-24 hours per day.
The person informed police he was allowed two sandwiches and two small water bottles every day, one in all which he would use for bathing.
He stated he disposed of his waste utilizing water bottles and newspaper.
The person weighed lower than 70 kilos when first responders discovered him after the hearth.
After an investigation, Sullivan was arrested on March 12 and charged with first-degree assault, second-degree kidnapping, first-degree illegal restraint, cruelty to individuals and first-degree reckless endangerment.
She has been launched from jail on $300,000 bond.
Whereas Kaloidis conceded that he doesn’t know what occurred inside the house always throughout the previous 20 years, he stated that Sullivan denies imprisoning her stepson.
“She recognizes that given these allegations, the rest of her life is on the line,” he stated. “She’s hopeful that through the process she will be vindicated.”
“I can tell you that the allegations were that this individual claims to have been imprisoned in that home up until the day of the fire,” Kaloidis stated. “And my client adamantly denies that there was any imprisonment. As for the whole history, there’s a lot that I anticipate will come out over the course of the trial, hopefully, because I think that’s the appropriate place for the release of any additional information.”
