A lady who’s accused of locking her emaciated stepson in a room of their Waterbury residence and ravenous him for many years is due again in court docket on Friday after a quick look on Wednesday morning.
Through the very temporary court docket look, the sufferer’s organic mom, Tracy Vallerand, was within the courtroom to point out help for her son because the stepmother, Kimberly Sullivan, confronted the fees.
“It’s just disgusting that she’s allowed on the streets right now,” Vallerand mentioned exterior of court docket on Wednesday.
The organic mother of a person who says his stepmom held him captive for 20 years spoke after the lady appeared in court docket on Wednesday.
Vallerand mentioned the final time she noticed her son was when he was 6 months outdated and she or he had been searching for him for years.
She advised reporters exterior court docket that she left her son within the care of his father, pondering he would have a greater life.
“I never knew him as being evil,” Vallerand mentioned.
When he’s more healthy and he is stronger, if he needs relationship with me, I’m proper right here. I am not going wherever.
Tracy Vallerand, organic mom
The daddy died in January 2024 and the sufferer advised police that the abuse, which began when he was 3, acquired worse after his father’s loss of life, in accordance with the arrest warrant for Sullivan.
That rescue was on Feb. 17 when firefighters and police responded to a fireplace at 2 Blake St. in Waterbury.
Police mentioned the sufferer, who’s 32 years outdated and weighs solely 68 kilos, advised first responders that he had been locked in the home for his total life and set the hearth as a result of he needed his freedom.
Weeks after the hearth, police charged Kimberly Sullivan with assault within the first diploma, kidnapping within the second diploma, illegal restraint within the first diploma, cruelty to individuals and reckless endangerment within the first diploma.
Sullivan has denied the allegations and has not but entered a plea.
Sullivan’s lawyer, Ioannis Kaloidis, spoke exterior court docket on Wednesday and mentioned the state has indicated that it’s going to file a movement looking for so as to add some situations, resembling digital or GPS monitoring, to his shopper’s launch since she is free on bond.
He has mentioned his shopper maintains her innocence and the allegations are critical, they don’t seem to be true and the state has to show them in court docket.
“Those allegations are made by one person. I understand the whole world has jumped on those allegations and has already convinced my client, but the good thing about America is that is not how we work,” he mentioned.
When requested about seeing Sullivan in court docket, Vallerand mentioned she was “disgusted” and she or he mentioned different relations are complicit as nicely.
“The two daughters also knew that he was there. They didn’t say anything, they’re complicit. Even the daughter’s boyfriend that knew he was there. They all need to be charged,” Vallerand mentioned.
Vallerand mentioned she and her daughter, the sufferer’s half-sister, appeared for her for years.
She mentioned they haven’t but spoken to him and doen’t know the place he’s, however they may proceed to point out up.
“When he is healthier and he’s stronger, if he wants relationship with me, I am right here. I’m not going anywhere,” Vallerand mentioned.
Watch “Waterbury Man Held Captive,” an NBC Connecticut particular report
NBC Connecticut solely sat down with Vallerand and her daughter, Heather Tessman, the place they spoke in-depth in regards to the case and the years main as much as the sufferer being discovered.
