キンバリー・スルリバン は、彼女が理解したウォーターベリーの裁判官に語った, その後、刑務所を拒否し、証言するために彼女のステップをセットアップ

Kimberly Sullivan stood in a Waterbury courtroom on September 4, 2026, and told a judge she understood the bet she was making. Judge Corinne Klatt asked whether Sullivan grasped that rejecting the state’s offers might mean she would not get another chance to take them. “I do, yes, your honor,” Sullivan said. Minutes later the 57-year-old woman, accused of keeping her stepson locked in an upstairs room for about two decades, formally turned down both deals. Her lawyer had called any sentence with prison a nonstarter. The judge left the GPS monitor on her ankle.

The offers were not small. Prosecutors had put 30 years on the table, suspended after 20, followed by five years of probation. The judge’s framework was 30 years, suspended after 10, with the same probation tail. Sullivan faces two counts of first-degree kidnapping, first-degree assault, first-degree unlawful restraint, and cruelty to persons. WFSBの特長 reported the exposure if a jury convicts is more than 45 years. Klatt denied a defense request to cut the monitor loose, telling the courtroom she would object because a conviction could mean Sullivan spends the rest of her life incarcerated, “which is a pretty good reason not to show up to court.”

火はドアだった

The man court papers call “S” did not walk out of 2 Blake Street. On February 17, 2025, he used a lighter, hand sanitizer, and printer paper to burn the room he says he had lived in since about age 11. Firefighters carried a 5-foot-9 adult who weighed about 68 pounds out of the smoke. He told them the fire was how he planned to get his freedom. Hospital staff documented wasting, broken teeth, and years without ordinary medical care. Detectives say the space was roughly 8 by 9 feet, that he was fed about two sandwiches a day with rationed water, and that there was no working bathroom. Waste went out a hole by the window. He was let out, they say, for short chores.

911のコールで、スリヴァンは「テレビで何かを一つ」と伝え、「受け継がれている」と伝えました。 ボディカメラのビデオは、彼女が叫びながら、彼を持ち上げる乗組員を示しています 小さな犬。 AEGIS Allianceが最初にエスケープの夜を報告した 火災と救助のアカウント。9月のカレンダーの質問は、彼が出てきた方法がなくなった。 彼が部屋が刑務所ではないと言う陪審員を作るチャンスのために定義された文を取引するかどうかだった.

彼女は理解し、彼女はまだ何も言った

The July 29 hearing had previewed the refusal. Defense attorney Ioannis Kaloidis told reporters outside the courthouse that he did not expect the case to end with incarceration and that experts would have to be lined up once the offers were dead. On September 4 the refusal became a record. NBCコネチカット reported a motions date of October 20, with jury selection eyed for around January 25, 2027, and evidence to begin February 22. Kaloidis has said he expects a jury of six and a trial of about three weeks. He does not expect that jury before 2027. He has also said, again, that his client did nothing wrong, kept the lights on, bought groceries, and provided shelter.

That defense treats captivity as a disagreement about parenting. Prosecutors answered over the last year by making the kidnapping counts heavier, not lighter. In March 2026 they replaced a second-degree kidnapping charge with two counts of first-degree kidnapping. First-degree kidnapping in Connecticut carries a maximum measured in decades. Sullivan pleaded not guilty in March 2025, posted a $300,000 bond, and has remained on GPS since. The September ruling means the monitor stays until a jury, or a later judge, says otherwise.

「S」はストーリーに戻って歩く準備が整いました

The man who weighed 68 pounds when firefighters picked him up is not on trial. His lawyer said outside the courthouse on September 4 that he “absolutely” plans to testify. “He’s got courage and determination with regard to this situation,” the attorney said. That sentence changes the shape of the case. A plea would have kept much of the room off a witness stand. A trial puts the starved adult in front of six strangers and asks him to describe the hole by the window.

He has been rebuilding under a new name. Probate litigation has already fought over whether Sullivan’s lawyers may know the alias, the address, and the medical file, under a gag that is supposed to stop publication. NBC Connecticut has also reported that the Blake Street house itself was approved for a sale in the range of $165,000 while the criminal case continues. A building can change hands. The person who set it on fire to get out of it still has to decide how much of that room he is willing to say out loud.

検索した母親と、ドアを強制しなかった代理店

Tracy Vallerand gave up custody when the boy was a baby and spent the years after looking for proof he was alive. No social-media trail. No ancestry hit that put him on a map. Her sister called her at work after the fire: we found him. “I’m heartbroken,” Vallerand told local television. “How can anybody treat somebody like that?” A half-sister said she had been searching for more than a decade. Vallerand has argued that Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families missed warnings as far back as 2005, when classmates described a boy in that house begging for food.

A conservator later filed a claim accusing the agency of failing to act on repeated red flags. That civil track is separate from Sullivan’s criminal docket, and it is the part of Waterbury that a three-week trial will not fully answer. Blake Street is not a cabin in the woods. It is a numbered house in a city. Classmates from the mid-2000s described a hungry child. Those reports did not produce a rescue. The rescue arrived because the captive set a fire.

本サイトの隠れた使用ファイルに従う読者は、他に同じアーキテクチャを見てきました。 シフトケージに保管した後、無効なティーンエイジャーが死亡したケースを緩和と、 パブリックビューで子供が罰されたLogansportケース. 煙がドアを強制するまで1人の子供が隠されました。 見知らぬ人達が911を呼ぶまで歩道にもう表示されていました。 両者は、家の中の大人と気づくであろう機関の指示です。

10月20日は、陪審員の前に清算しなければならない

Sullivan is presumed innocent. Kaloidis has asked the public not to rush judgment until witnesses testify. The state has answered with a charging sheet that grew after the first year of litigation and with two prison offers the accused woman looked at and refused in open court. The judge’s canvass is now part of the record. If she is convicted, she will not be able to say she did not know the math.

Between now and jury selection, the October 20 hearing is supposed to clear motions. Experts will be named. The defense will try to frame groceries and a roof as the whole of the duty a stepmother owes a child. Prosecutors will try to make an 8-by-9-foot room, a diet of two sandwiches, and a body that weighed 68 pounds do the arguing before “S” says a word. The 犯罪ニュース AEGIS Alliance のファイルでは、大気ではないため、この物語のボディカメラレコードを維持します。 10年分のオファーと20年分のオファーの両方が存在し、女性がモニターを着ているのは、彼女が受け入れる文ではないと述べた理由です。

カレンダーが保持されている場合は、冬の問題です。 ブレイクストリートのお部屋は、すでに2月2025日からの事実です。 火は、その中の男が開くことができる唯一のドアでした。 次のドアは証人スタンドです。彼の弁護士は彼がそれを歩くつもりだと言います。