The uncle of a Connecticut boy allegedly starved and kept captive in a house by his cruel stepmother said he was prevented from seeing the boy for decades, and that when he finally saw him, he looked “like a Holocaust survivor.”
Kurt Sullivan, 55, was unable to see his nephew for around 20 years, after his stepmother, Kimblerly Sullivan, 56, reportedly pushed him and other relatives away for asking too many questions, keeping the stepson imprisoned in their Waterbury home, until he was discovered after intentionally setting a fire to escape.
“I was shocked, he looks like a Holocaust survivor,” Sullivan told police after seeing his nephew in hospital, according to an affidavit.
Sullivan had been so concerned for his nephew’s safety that he “spoke with a private investigator who suggested going to vita statistics to look for a death certificate,” according to the affidavit.
Sullivan had gone to his nephew’s home “for Christmas Eve for a few years in a row until the family pushed him and his wife away,” the affidavit reports.
He described his nephew as “skinny, meek and mild-mannered,” but remembered that when he had try to ask the boy questions, Kimberly “intervened,” according to his statement.
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