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(NewsNation) — The defence lawyer for a Connecticut pistillate accused of keeping her stepson captive for 20 years pushed backmost connected the allegations Friday and said prosecutors volition person to beryllium their lawsuit successful tribunal with grounds from the alleged victim.
Kimberly Sullivan is retired connected enslaved and faces respective charges, including kidnapping and unlawful restraint, aft her big stepson acceptable occurrence to their Waterbury location Feb. 17.
Police accidental the 32-year-old man, who has not been identified publicly, weighed 68 pounds and claimed to person been locked distant successful cruel and filthy conditions since helium was a child.
Sullivan's defence attorney, Ioannis Kaloidis, appearing connected “Banfield," said determination is different broadside to the story.
“She is shocked that everyone has condemned her and automatically believed everything that has travel out,” helium said of his client. “She’s blown away.”
Kaloidis rebutted respective allegations, including claims that the stepson had been “restrained” successful the home.
“There are exterior locks connected astir each doorway wrong that house, and those locks predated my lawsuit ever moving successful the house,” helium said. “The beingness of the fastener doesn’t beryllium anything, is not illegal.”
As to the value of the stepson, Kaloidis said helium was historically underweight arsenic a child.
“The value itself doesn’t beryllium anything,” helium said. “The authorities inactive has to link the dots. What they’re claiming is his value was this due to the fact that she starved him.”
The stepson, Kaloidis added, “is going to person to get connected that basal and person a assemblage that that is the origin and effect.”
Sullivan’s precocious husband, the boy’s father, was the custodial parent, the lawyer said.
“She did not forestall him ever from going to the doctor. His begetter called the shots,” Kaloidis said.
The stepson released a nationalist connection this week done a nonprofit group, Survivors Say, successful which helium thanked aesculapian professionals and others for helping him implicit the past respective weeks. He referred to himself arsenic “S.”
“I americium choosing a caller sanction for myself, and I volition usage that sanction arsenic I reclaim power implicit my beingness and my future. My sanction is my choice, and it is the archetypal of galore choices I volition marque for myself present that I americium free,” the connection said.
