The half-sister of a person who was held captive and starved in a Connecticut home of horrors for many years now needs these accountable for his tragic residing situations to be punished, insisting: “I want to see them all fried.”
Heather Tessman, who claims she spent years trying to find her brother, lashed out after her 32-year-old sibling’s dramatic rescue from a burning Waterbury residence final month uncovered a sample of alleged abuse that authorities likened to “a horror movie.”
The sufferer’s stepmom, Kimberly Sullivan, 56, has since been charged with cruelty and kidnapping after he alleged she saved him in padlocked in a tiny room, starved him and disadvantaged him of water so severely he was compelled to drink from the bathroom bowl.
“They deserve solitary confinement for the rest of their lives,” Tessman raged in an interview with WFSB in regards to the stepmom and two stepsisters who, at one level, all lived in the home collectively.
“I want to see them all fried.”
Tessman, who shares a organic mother with the sufferer, mentioned she solely met her sibling as soon as when she was simply three years outdated — and had been trying to find him nonstop since he turned 18.
Throughout the hunt, Tessman claims these residing inside the home of horrors — together with the sufferer’s stepmom, stepsisters and his organic father — lied about his whereabouts.
“I think, personally, that she didn’t like that he was not her son, and she took it out on him,” Tessman alleged.
“Her daughters, they got to go to school, have friends, jobs, have a life. What did he get? A jail cell. For what? Locks on the outside of the door? Are you kidding me? You don’t treat people like that.”
Tessman mentioned she was sickened when she lastly realized the reality.
“Our [biological] mom had texted me when she found out to get a hold of her ASAP. We don’t talk very often so I knew something was up and she said ‘we found your brother, it was that man in Waterbury’,” Tessman recalled in an interview with CT Insider.
“I had seen [the news] in passing … and thought to myself, ‘Oh my god! How does this happen?’ and then a few days later, she gets a hold of me and I start connecting the dots,” she continued.
“I’ve been looking for him since he turned 18.”
The sufferer, who weighed a mere 68 kilos when he was rescued, is presently recovering in a hospital.
It wasn’t instantly clear if Tessman or their organic mother have been in touch with him since his rescue.
“He needs to know that I was trying to find him and that he matters,” Tessman mentioned. “Life will go on, and we can only hope to grow and heal from here.”
The surprising particulars solely emerged after the sufferer opened as much as cops in regards to the hellish situations he was compelled to endure since he was a baby after he intentionally set his residence on hearth on Feb. 17 so he might escape the nightmare.
An investigation decided he had been held in captivity for greater than 20 years, throughout which he was starved and uncared for, authorities mentioned.
“He was, without exaggeration, akin to a survivor of Auschwitz’s death camp,” officers mentioned of the sufferer’s situation.
Sullivan, in the meantime, has professed her innocence. She is due in courtroom on March 26.
