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(NewsNation) — The Connecticut woman accused of holding her stepson captive for 21 years successful squalid conditions has been allowed entree to the stepson’s caller identity, code and aesculapian records.
On Friday, a justice granted the petition from the defence squad of Kimberly Sullivan, who is charged with kidnapping, unlawful restraint, cruelty and reckless endangerment. Attorney Ioannis Kaloidis said his lawsuit sought the accusation connected law grounds.
“Every suspect is entitled to cognize the sanction and code not lone of their accuser but (also) the witnesses,” helium told “Banfield” connected Friday. “It was the authorities that was seeking to withhold information. … the justice applied the instrumentality appropriately.”
As for the aesculapian records the defence tin present obtain, Kaloidis signaled his squad is looking to comparison the aesculapian accusation with accusations leveled by authorities. They accidental Sullivan’s stepson weighed little than 70 pounds successful February erstwhile archetypal responders rescued him from a occurrence helium claims to person acceptable astatine the Waterbury location wherever his stepmother allegedly kept him against his will.
'House of horrors' stepson aesculapian records whitethorn assistance defense: Attorney
“We’re going to dive into that,” Kaloidis said. “There’s plentifulness of explanations, imaginable explanations, arsenic to wherefore helium was 68 pounds. What we’re going to have, astatine trial, is grounds that helium had entree to nutrient and h2o and was escaped to devour and portion each day.”
He added that the defence whitethorn not person to explicate the stepson’s weight.
The justice besides granted a petition Friday from prosecutors that the aesculapian records tin lone beryllium viewed nether controlled conditions, successful defence attorneys’ offices. The justice denied a defence question asking that Sullivan's GPS tracker beryllium removed, NBC News reported.
Sullivan is retired connected enslaved and has pleaded not guilty. Her adjacent proceeding is acceptable for December.
Stepson inactive unidentified, goes by 'S'
The stepson, present 32, has not been named publicly. Earlier this year, helium released a nationalist connection done a nonprofit group, Survivors Say, successful which helium thanked aesculapian professionals and others for helping him aft his ordeal. 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.
