A lawyer for Kimberly Sullivan, a Waterbury, Connecticut woman, faces a string of charges for allegedly abusing her step-son for 20 years, and his client denied being in charge of the abuse in an interview with Fox News Digital.
Referring to the bodycam footage released last week by the Waterbury Police Department, Ioannis Caloyd said he disagreed completely with how his client was portrayed.
“I saw the photos, I saw the video,” Kaloydos said. “I don't agree with the characterization of those photos and videos. They've been made the worst thing anyone has seen in 20 years. I don't think so.
“Her face is smeared across television, news, the internet and social media. Her life is on the verge of overturning. She has a huge target on her back. She has essentially become the number one enemy.
The allegations have been revealed after authorities responded to a home fire in Waterbury on February 17th.
In the house they said they had found a 32-year-old man in a debilitating state.
He said he wanted his freedom and deliberately set the fire on fire.
“This was an extreme shock for her,” Kaloydos told Fox News Digital. “She lived a relatively quiet life.”
“Her side of the story is very easy,” he added. “She did not harm him, she didn't let him rest, she didn't imprison him.”
According to Sullivan's arrest warrant, her son-in-law, identified as “male victim 1,” said she had no access to the bathroom for 20 years in a 9-foot storage closet with no air conditioning or heat.
He is said to have been kept in a closet 22-24 hours a day.
The man told police he was allowed two sandwiches and two small water bottles every day.
He said he used water bottles and newspapers to dispose of the waste.
The man weighed less than 70 pounds when the first responder found him after the fire.
After the investigation, Sullivan was arrested on March 12th and charged with first-degree assault, second-degree lure, first-degree illegal control, cruelty to people, and first-degree reckless danger.
She was released from prison on a $300,000 bond.
The Caloid has admitted that he has always known what has happened in the house over the past 20 years, but he says he has denied Sullivan jailing her step-son.
“She recognizes that the rest of her life is on track given these allegations,” he said. “She hopes that she will be proven through the process.”
“The allegations can be told to you that this individual allegedly was imprisoned in that house until Tuesday,” Kaloidos said. “And my clients are firmly denial that there was incarceration. As far as history goes, I think it's a good place to release additional information, so there's a lot that I'd expect to come out in the course of the trial.”
