Video records moment Connecticut Man should be kept by stepmom

The police left the Body Camera film material and the 911 call in connection with the case of a man from Connecticut, who told the official that he started a fire to escape the small space in which he had been locked up by his stepmother for more than two decades.

When they reacted to the fire in Waterbury on February 17, the officials found the 32-year-old man heavily emaciated after they were exposed to “extended abuse, hunger, severe neglect and inhuman treatment”, the police said in a press release last week.

The man's 56-year-old Kimberly Sullivan, the man's stepmother, called the authorities over the fire that night.

“Please hurry up,” she hears to a dispatcher and added: “There is a fire.”

“My son, stepson, he is in his room and I don't know, he did something with the television,” Sullivan told the dispatcher.

When she is asked if she sees flames or smoke, she said “yes”.

“We need an ambulance, please, please, we need an ambulance,” said Sullivan.

The dispatcher asks why the ambulance is needed and whether your stepson is injured.

“Yes, his room, the TV in his room!” The woman says. “Yes, he is hurt, please send an ambulance!”

When asked what his injuries are, she says: “I don't know.”

“He somehow passed out, he's out,” she says.

The Body Camera film material begins around 8:50 p.m., whereby an officer approaches the house, where he stands Sullivan in front of it, holds a dog and shouts someone to “get down”.

When an officer asks her who else is in the house, she says “My stepson is here” and that she supported a first aid to get him out of the house.

It is then built from her security from the officer from home. Behind her, a fireman seems to be wearing another person who was in the house. The face of the individual is blurred in the video.

The person, presumably the stepson, is carried into the back of an ambulance before the end of the video.

Sullivan was arrested on Wednesday and charged with assault, kidnapping, illegal reluctance, ruthless threat and cruelty towards people. It was recorded in a bond of 300,000 US dollars, which she published the next day.

Sullivan denied the allegations against her by a lawyer.

Her stepson, who was identified in an affidavit as MV-1, weighed 68 pounds when the officials found him. He is 5-foot 9. He told the authorities that he was only left out for 15 minutes to two hours in the morning to do tasks and that he received two sandwiches a day and the equivalent from two small bottles of water.

The 32-year-old informed an officer that he had put the fire with a lighter, hand disinfectant and paper.

“I wanted my freedom,” he said according to an affidavit.

Last week, Waterbury's chief of police, Fernando Spagnolo, said with reporters: “In 33 years of prosecution, this is the worst treatment of humanity I have ever seen.”

Sullivan appeared on Thursday shortly before Waterbury's Supreme Court and rejected any explanations before the judge rejected the public prosecutor's application to make them under house arrest. She will be Travel in Connecticut, but must remain in close, regular contact with probation workers.