The Connecticut home of horrors mother accused of imprisoning her stepson in foul circumstances for many years rejected a plea deal to serve solely 10 years in jail — because the sufferer’s organic mother blasted the alleged abuser’s lawyer for appearing like a present pony.
Prosecutors reiterated a suggestion that Kimberly Sullivan, 57, be sentenced to 30 years behind bars, suspended after 20 years served, throughout a 90-second court docket listening to in Waterbury on Wednesday.
However Choose Corinne Klatt sweetened the deal by suggesting Sullivan serve 30 years, with the sentence suspended after 10 years.
However Sullivan’s protection lawyer, Ioannis Kaloidis, stated she’s fully harmless.
“I don’t anticipate this case resolving with something that includes incarceration,” Kaloidis advised reporters. “Kimberly’s completed nothing mistaken. She’s been shocked that any of this has even occurred.”
The lawyer added that he hopes to debate a trial date for Sullivan at her subsequent court docket date on Sept. 4.
“Whether or not you’re in Waterbury or Bridgeport, individuals know in regards to the case. The bottom line is going to be discovering jurors that aren’t swayed by sensational media protection, outlandish allegations, or sympathy that they might really feel for the particular person making the allegations,” he stated.
Sullivan was mum as she left court docket in multicolored striped pants.
She is accused of preserving her stepson – now 33 – locked in a grimy room of their Waterbury house starting when he was round 10, solely letting him out for a couple of hours so he might do chores.
The stepson – identified publicly solely as “S” — weighed simply 68 kilos when he was found in February 2025 after he apparently set hearth to his room in a determined escape try.
S quickly advised police terrifying tales of alleged abuse, together with being taken out of college as a boy, earlier than being relegated to the upstairs room that allegedly turned his prison-home for many years.
The alleged depraved stepmother was arrested inside weeks, however sprung free on $300,000 bail whereas being ordered to not contact her stepson.
Sullivan is going through a slew of expenses, together with two counts of first-degree kidnapping, first-degree assault, first-degree illegal restraint and intentional cruelty to individuals.
Tracy Vallerand, S’s organic mother, blasted prosecutors for providing the soft plea deal and referred to Kaloidis as “Beavis” of the sitcom “Beavis and Butthead.”
“He’s simply in it to get his face within the information, on digicam, saying ‘Hey, look, I signify the f–king worst of the worst,” she advised The Put up.
“Except they’re really speaking about 31 years of her life, I don’t need to hear it,” she added, noting she believes her son was saved in a cage for 31 years primarily based on particulars of the case.
Vallerand gave up her son when he was simply 6 months outdated and left his father, Kraigg Sullivan, to lift him along with his new spouse, Kimberly.
She stated it “kills” her day by day to not know extra about her organic son’s situation or whereabouts.
“I do know nothing. I completely know nothing. And it’s irritating, it’s very irritating. It kills me day by day,” Vallerand stated.
“I’m additionally involved along with his growth, his bodily remedy, his psychological remedy, every little thing. I do know completely nothing. I do know he’s going to be f–ked up for years and years and years, and it kills me.”
