Waterbury – The biological mother of the man he said was captured for 20 years moved forward on Wednesday, blowing up an evil stepmother accused of abusing his son.
Tracy Vallarand also tried to explain why he gave up on the boy shortly after he was born.
“I don't hate people at all,” Vallarand said of Kimberly Sullivan. “I hate this.”
Sullivan, 56, had a brief hearing that ended before he could even enter into a plea for the cruelty she faced and the accusations of the lunatics she was facing. She is on $300,000 bail after being accused of being forced by her son-in-law of living in an 8-foot x 9-foot room trapped from outside.
Sullivan rushes into the waiting car as the two daughters, half-sisters of the victim, broke towards another car.
Vallerand, 52, was in court with her own daughter, Heather Tessman.
She told reporters that he gave up his son when he was only six months old and left his father, Craig Sullivan, raising him along with his new wife, Kimberly.
“Things didn't go well between us both. I thought my son was giving a better chance for a lifetime. If I knew… what… I can't guess that. I have no words,” Valleland said. NBC Connecticut.
“There was a park where Craig was actually told to take him on a walk. I parked there and was there for hours to see if I would see him. I had never seen him,” she said.
Vallerand tried to find a son after turning 18 but said he had no social media. By then, officers said he had been held captive for at least seven years.
“You can't guess that, and then you'll take her two daughters home,” she said. “What were they doing? Did they wait for him to actually die? What were they going to do at the time?” Vallerand said.
“What she did is subhuman. You can't get away from it,” said Tessman, the victim's half-sister.
After the hearing, Sullivan's attorney Ioannis A. Caroigis said the lawsuit continued until Friday as the state wanted her to be under electronic monitoring.
When asked why Sullivan was shocked by the allegations – her adult stepson has not been seen in 20 years and weighed just 68 pounds when authorities found him, but Caloid said it's the state's job to prove that his client actually committed the crime.
“The great thing about this system is that you don't need to explain it,” Kaloidos said. “The state has filed the claims. The state must prove these claims in court. These claims are serious, but those claims have been made by one person.”
“I understand that the whole world is jumping on these allegations and that I have already convicted my client,” he continued. “The good thing about America is that it's not the way we work. She is presumed to be guilty until otherwise proven.
“Now they're just a point,” he said. “It's a shame she's been convicted all over the world and everyone wants to go on to lynching, but we have a system. She has the rights.”
