The woman who is accused of keeping her starving stepson locked up in a house of horror for decades may have gone away with the horrible abuse because of the non -regulated home schooling system of Connecticut.
The tragic victim, now 32, after his daring escape from his regrettable boundaries in the house in Waterbury, the police told the police last month that he was pulled by his stepmother in only fourth grade by his stepmother – and essentially disappeared in a life of hell.
“Once he was pulled out of school, his routine on weekdays and imprisonment brutally became consistent for the rest of his life,” the police said on the basis of their interview with the tortured man, according to a criminal complaint to his stepmother, the 56-year-old Kimberly Sullivan.
Connecticut has no clear guidelines to ensure that a child becomes good and safe home school, which means that the state actually loses all contact with a child as soon as they leave the school, said Sarah Eagan of the Center for Children’s Advocacy, a law firm for children, for children, for children .
In order to remove a child from the public school in Connecticut, parents’ must ‘must’ submit formal paperwork to the school district who demonstrates their intention for their children to home school, according to the state regulations assessed by NBC.
The parents are also supposed to retain a portfolio for every home school -child that “samples of activities, assignments, projects and assessments, as well as a logbook of books and materials used,” says, the Regulation.
The former director of the Barnard Elementary School, Tom Pannone, has said that the school already warned the school in 2005, after 2005, the Ministry of Children and Families of the State of clear serious problems with the family, after the alarmingly thin boy, a student there, at that time, stealing food and eating the waste.
The calls just visits DFS, what Sullivan, who is now confronted with charges of abuse and kidnapping, registers to pull the child out of school, to never be seen again.
As soon as the boy was gone, Pannone said, there was no real story for his former school to follow, although the then principal even personally beat the door of the family in a meaningless attempt to get some answers.
Sullivan was arrested and charged this week due to the pattern of shocking abuse of her stepson those authorities compared to ‘a horror film’.
The victim, who weighed only 68 pounds at the age of 32, was forced to live in complicated circumstances in a with padlock storage space until he deliberately set the house of horror on 17 February to free himself after more than 20 years.
The police chief of Waterbury, Fernando Spagnolo, said, Reporters said on Thursday that the details of the case are “shudder” – and that the living conditions of the victim in his 33 years in law enforcement “were the worst treatment of humanity I have ever seen.”
The seriously abused man got minimal access to food and water – often drinking from the toilet bowl – and forced to relieve himself in bottles and newspapers, the police said.
Public prosecutors compared the treatment of the stepson with that of victims of the Holocaust, “without exaggeration, related to a survivor of the Auschwitz skull.”
