WATERBURY, Connecticut — The lawyer for Kimberly Sullivan, the stepmom accused of imprisoning and abusing her stepson of their Connecticut dwelling from the time he was a baby, painted his consumer because the sufferer within the gut-wrenching case that has garnered worldwide consideration.
“Her world has been turned upside-down. She’s grow to be public enemy primary, her face has been plastered throughout — not simply the state however the nation and past,” lawyer Ioannis A. Kaloidis informed The Put up Monday.
“She’s going through the fact that she’s bought some critical prison costs in opposition to her. Everyone seems to be coming for her, and we’re taking it in the future at a time and we’re going to arrange her protection. Hopefully she’s going to have the ability to do it efficiently down the street.”
Sullivan, 56, was arrested final week and now faces costs together with first-degree assault, second-degree kidnapping, first-degree illegal restraint, cruelty to individuals and first-degree reckless endangerment.
She was launched Thursday afternoon after posting $300,000 bail.
Sullivan’s stepson, now 32, weighed a stunning 68 kilos when he was pulled to security from a fireplace he informed cops he intentionally set in the home out of desperation to flee his alleged decades-long confinement.
He later informed investigators that he’d been locked in a 9-by-8-foot cupboard space within the dilapidated Waterbury dwelling from the time he was 11, and was disadvantaged of meals and water to the purpose he needed to eat out of rubbish cans and drink bathroom water to remain alive.
Regardless of native police, the boy’s college and even little one providers having the household on their radar going again to 2005, he remained a prisoner within the dwelling for greater than 20 years.
At a press convention final week, Fernando Spagnolo, Waterbury’s prime cop, known as the main points of the case “shuddering” and stated that in his 33 years in legislation enforcement, the home of horrors was “the worst therapy of humanity that I’ve ever witnessed.”
However Kaloidis hinted at “one other facet to the story” that has but to be informed, which he stated could be revealed “in some unspecified time in the future” because the trial unfolds.
“Though she is keen to clear her title, there’s a course of that we have to observe, and it must be finished on the applicable time and place,” the lawyer stated.
“Had been simply asking folks to take into account that she is presumed harmless. That’s a presumption that is still along with her. She has a proper to a protection and it’s a proper she’s going to train — and that anybody in her state of affairs would train.”
He stated Sullivan has invoked her proper to stay silent and he doesn’t anticipate her making any statements within the close to future.
Sullivan’s subsequent courtroom look is scheduled for March 26, the place Kaloidis stated she intends to plead not responsible.
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