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FOX NY obtained audio from Kimberly Sullivan’s preliminary identify for help, after a fire broke out in her stepson’s Waterbury, Connecticut mattress room. Her 32-year-old stepson later instructed authorities he started the blaze himself, as a way to flee being held in captivity for 20 years by his stepmother — a declare which led to her arrest.

“Oh my god. Please hurry. There’s a hearth! Oh my god, there’s a hearth!” Sullivan exclaims to the 911 operator via the identify, as a result of the operator asks what’s on hearth.

“The TV? I have no idea. My son, my stepson, was up in his room and I have no idea, he did one factor with the TV. I was sleeping, I fell asleep,” Sullivan cries, confirming there are flames and smoke throughout the dwelling.

“We would like an ambulance, please! His room, the TV in his room!” she shouts, as a result of the operator asks if her stepson was injured or on hearth. “Positive! He’s injured! Please ship an ambulance,” Sullivan yells into the phone.

When requested as soon as extra whether or not or not he’s injured, she offers, “I have no idea, he’s type of handed out. He’s out of it. Oh my god, it’s like all the flexibility within the house is out. I have no idea if it blew a fuse.”

Bodycam footage from the scene reveals Sullivan open air her dwelling, as first responders ask her who else is throughout the residence.

“My stepson is in proper right here. I’m making an attempt to have them help him out. That’s it. I’ve two cats,” she tells the individual. “All individuals’s out?” the officer asks, as she says, “Positive.” He then asks, “Nonetheless your stepson’s nonetheless inside?”

As she says “he’s correct there,” a firefighter shall be seen coming out the doorway door, carrying one different particular person. As she shares concern for her “shaking” canine, authorities usher her away from the scene — sooner than the stepson is positioned into an ambulance.

Authorities turned involved after an emergency identify for an lively hearth at roughly 8:42 p.m. on February 17. That call bought right here from Sullivan, the proprietor of the property that was aflame.

Whereas the fireside was shortly extinguished and Sullivan was able to evacuate of her private will, the other resident throughout the dwelling, a 32-year-old man, wished assist from Waterbury Fireplace Division’s Fireplace personnel.

He was subsequently dealt with by emergency medical responders. It was solely when police began chatting with the individual that they uncovered that it was he who had started the fireside — and why.

“Whereas receiving medical care [for smoke inhalation], the male sufferer disclosed to first responders that he had intentionally set the fireside in his upstairs room,” officers talked about in a assertion referring to the case.

As for why he started the fireside, they talked about he instructed them merely, “I wanted my freedom.”

“He further alleged that he had been held captive by Sullivan since he was roughly 11 years earlier,” the assertion continued. In response to CBS affiliate WFSB, which shared the whole arrest affidavit, the individual allegedly spent these years locked inside an 8-foot by 9-foot room.

The alleged sufferer “lit a fire with some hand sanitizer, some paper from a printer, and he lit that fireplace whereas he was locked in that room from the pores and skin,” talked about a prosecutor in court docket docket, per WFSB.

“He lit that fireplace very correctly understanding he might die,” the prosecutor continued, “nonetheless he had been locked throughout the room for 20 years, and for 20 years he’d been making an attempt to get out of that room.”

See further of the horrific allegations about Sullivan proper right here.

Authorized skilled Ioannis A. Kaloidis talked about the suspect’s late husband Kregg Sullivan — who died in 2024 — “was in administration” of the state of affairs and was the one who decided to limit his son to a 8-foot by 9-foot room starting on the age of 11.

“Lastly it was the daddy which dictated the best way whereby his son was raised and my shopper was solely ending up his orders,” Kaloidis instructed PEOPLE, sooner than moreover denying the stepson’s claims that he wasn’t allowed to wash. “My shopper impressed him to clean nonetheless she isn’t going to energy a 32-year-old man to deal with himself,” Kaloidis talked about.

The authorized skilled moreover claimed the individual was in no way locked in his room and left the house every single day for chores, like taking the trash. Per Kaloidis, “He might have merely walked away then if he wanted to go away.”

“This is just one facet of the story and different individuals shouldn’t rush to judgment. These allegations are horrific nonetheless there are two sides to every story, and my shopper plans to defend herself in opposition to those allegations,” Kaloidis concluded.

Whereas Sullivan’s lawyer is shifting blame to her late husband, the stepson spoke further favorably about him when chatting with police regarding the alleged abuse.

In response to Sullivan’s arrest affidavit, the individual stated that he would “be let unfastened of his room for longer durations of time by his father” and claimed “that whereas Sullivan took his sisters to events and to see mates, his father would allow him to return out and watch television with him.”

“When discussing his father dying, he stated that his captivity and restraint obtained even worse,” talked about police. “[He] stated that it obtained to a level the place the one time he would ever be out of the house as quickly as since his father died was to let the family canine out behind the property.”

Sullivan was launched Thursday after posting $300,000 bail; she’s due once more in court docket docket on March 26.

In case you’re experiencing or witness child abuse, identify the Childhelp Nationwide Teenager Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Teenager or 1-800-422-4453, or go to www.childhelp.org. In case you take into account a toddler is in fast hazard, identify 911.