The Connecticut “Home of Horrors” mother accused of imprisoning her stepson in foul circumstances for over 20 years hid her face as she scurried to and from court docket on the anniversary of her arrest.
Kimberly Sullivan, 57, ducked for canopy as she rushed from her automobile to a Waterbury court docket for a quick listening to Thursday, after which again out minutes later.
Sullivan refused to reply questions like “What’s unsuitable with you, why did you do this to your stepson?” as she handed with sun shades on and a hood over her face.
She was sporting her sometimes flamboyant seems – purple hair and a swimsuit to match.
Sullivan is accused of maintaining her stepson – now 33 – locked in a dirty room of their Waterbury dwelling starting when he was round 10, solely letting him out for just a few hours so he might do chores.
The stepson – at present recognized solely as “S” in public — weighed simply 68 kilos when he was found in February 2025 after he apparently set hearth to his room in a determined escape try.
Police initially thought they have been coping with a typical housefire, however S quickly started telling terrifying tales of being taken out of college as a boy, earlier than being relegated to the upstairs storage room that allegedly turned his prison-home for many years.
Sullivan was arrested inside weeks, however quickly freed on $300,000 bail whereas being ordered to not contact her stepson.
She was in court docket for barely two minutes a 12 months in a while Thursday, along with her legal professional discussing logistics for acquiring the stepson’s medical data as trial preparations are underway.
Sullivan received a serious authorized breakthrough in October when a decide granted her entry to the medical data after her attorneys argued the sometimes confidential info was essential to the protection.
“We’re actually making an attempt to see what proof they’ve and what proof they will produce at trial. I don’t know what’s in there. We’ll know once we see them,” Sullivan’s legal professional, Ioannis Kaloidis, instructed reporters after the listening to.
“It wasn’t true then and it’s not true now,” Kaloidis added when requested whether or not Sullivan actually did starve her stepson – however he refused to remark when requested why S weighed simply 68-pounds when rescued from the housefire.
“We’ll see,” the legal professional instructed The Put up, shrugging.
Sullivan has been in hiding since she was arrested – along with her legal professional saying she’d been branded “public enemy primary” within the final 12 months.
“As you possibly can think about, any time your face is plastered all around the information, you change into public enemy primary. It does make it troublesome to exit and resume a standard life,” Kaloidis.
It stays unclear the place Sullivan has been dwelling, however the house she shared along with her stepson was left a scorched husk after the February hearth.
The stepson stays in an undisclosed location, and has reportedly been recovering effectively after a hospital keep.
Sullivan is due again in court docket on April 30, and is charged with kidnapping, assault, illegal restraint and cruelty to individuals. She pleaded not responsible to the costs.
