A woman allegedly held her “severely emaciated” stepson in captivity for over 20 years, since he was 11 years old, and forced him to endure “prolonged abuse."
emaciated
very thin and weak, usually because of illness or extreme hungerThanks, was about to bust the dictionary open
Details to be aware of: Everybody knew there was a problem when this man was still in elementary school. He reported that food was withheld from him. Teachers would bring food for him to school. CPS was called 20 times. He’d been ordered to tell them that everything was fine. Then he just stopped coming to school. Everybody knew there was a problem. Nothing was done.
Those last two sentences encapsulate the US so well.
I hope he sues for the last 20 years of collective dental and medical. Also existing medical. And then on top of that, all the pain and suffering. That poor man. 20 years of abuse and neglect.
All the mandatory reporters did their jobs, CPS really fucked this one up
You can’t say nothing was done when so many people tried. He was let down by government agencies. Those are the people who need to be strung up.
5’9" and 68 lbs, that’s just mind-blowing. He’s got to be just a skeleton, no fat at all, no muscle left anywhere. I weighed more than that in grade school. I wonder if he can even walk? Holodomor vibes.
Well, she’s decided to prominently display that she’s a Christian with that cross there. So I guess we’re supposed to understand that she’s by definition a Good Person. Give her a slap on the wrist, admonish her to not be naughty, and let her go. Whatever she did is God’s Will after all.
I mean, this is what I would expect from a Christian. 🤷♂️
Glad to see she’s wearing a cross around her neck. God must have told her to do it
If he didn’t, all she needs to do is “ask him for forgiveness” (aka literally just think to yourself, “I’m sorry Jesus.”), and she will get into heaven for all eternity! Good stuff.
I’ve had conversations with some religious people where they’ve basically stated that the only reason they don’t murder people is because of God and the Bible. Not the exact words, but basically that’s where all their ideas of morality come from. That’s fucking scary if the only thing holding people back is a fucking book. And not, you know, compassion and empathy.
This is also why so many Christians immediately assume all non-Christians are immoral. Because they derive their morals from Christianity, they default assume that people can’t have morals without Christianity. Like if you ever talk to one about it, they’ll be genuinely confused about how someone can be moral without religion.
Yep. Terrifying people. And they’re all over the place in the US.
Religion takes all of the best aspects of humanity and convinces people that they need some sort of supernatural nanny to be that way.
if the only thing holding people back is a fucking book
that’s the mindset. they’re raised to believe that humans literally aren’t capable of being any definition of “good” without church. and even still, as mentioned above, you can pretty much do all the stealing, adultering, raping, murdering you please anyway as long as you “repent” and ask forgiveness. it’s all such a steaming truckload of horseshit
It follows the same line of thought when you apply it economically: all people are selfish so we can’t do X.
You know that experiment where a teacher ran a thought demonstration with their class in the 50’s? Each student is supposed to run a fake company and sell fake widgets on their fake class market. In the 1950’s the students quickly realized it was a competition to race to the bottom to sell as many widgets as possible for the least amount of cost.
It’s supposed to teach supply and demand of capitalism but also teach that humans will undercut each other in competition.
A teacher ran this in a post-bachelor accounting class I was in—and my teacher got really angry because none of us were doing the behavior he was expecting.
Instead of undercutting each other, we started to work together in a group to get the work done while keeping our independence as “separate businesses.” We each built different model companies to compete but didn’t do so in a way that harmed each other.
Instead of the teacher realizing that maybe our class didn’t naturally have a selfish competitive mindset—that maybe this was also a perfectly valid reaction to the experiment—we just got told we were “doing economics wrong.”
I don’t think it’s surprising that anecdotally we find many people who insist on brimstone religion to keep people in check also believe “people won’t work” and “people are selfish and bad” when it comes to shaping economic and welfare policy. Bowling balls full of horseshit.
Sullivan’s lawyer defended his client and said it was the victim’s late father who was responsible.
“He was not locked in the room. She did not restrain him in any way. She provided food. She provided shelter. She is blown away by these allegations,” her lawyer, Ioannis Kaloidis, told New Haven ABC affiliate WTNH.
Kaloidis said the stepson’s late biological father “dictated how the boy would be raised.”
“We think as the evidence comes out, you will see she’s not the villain she’s being made out to be,” Kaloidis added.
Except the father died 9 months ago and was wheelchair bound in this two story house and this man was still being trapped inside. She also at no point in the past 20 years thought of reporting this to the authorities. What is this lawyer thinking making such ridiculous statements?
As a lawyer who has had meetings about our client’s case hitting the news—they’re probably thinking about getting a narrative out there before the DA or some other agency does. There might not be an option to negotiate not talking to the media. This isn’t normal everywhere though.
As they say: If the facts aren’t on your side, pound the law. If the law isn’t on your side, pound the table.
I think the lawyer is pounding the table. It’s ok to hate lawyers for this. We will still defend you if you get in trouble even if you deservedly hate us haha
They’re grasping at straws because it is their job to defend her as best they can.
It really just goes to show that this is pretty much indefensible, but regardless of that it is their job to defend her. I’m glad I’m not a defense lawyer.
The 32-year-old was also found in a “severely emaciated condition and had not received medical or dental care” during his time in captivity inside the home over the past two decades, according to police.
Damn. Give that boy a cold beer and free dental for life.
Sorry, best we can do is 6 weeks in a halfway house then kick him out to find a job
Nah, Connecticut has a pretty robust social safety net compared to many states, and this guy is high profile so they’d never risk the bad press. He probably won’t need it though. He’s going to make a million doing the talk show circuits and publishing an autobiography. That’s the American way.
We’re under Trump now, they’ll kick him out and he’ll be arrested for sleeping on the streets by tomorrow.
America, land of the free! Greatest country on earth! Now pull yourself up by the bootstraps.
Is this Binding of Isaac lore?
Is it bad to say, that as a man with no knowledge or experience with makeup, I do know that woman is worse at it than me?
I guess it’s hard to use the bathroom mirror, when the bathroom is a prison for someone…
I’d like to see you try though! We need a pick of you in make up you laid yourself
Cant wait for the victim to be sued because he started the fire. Man i am way too pessimistic. I hope im wrong.
