A woman arrested in the US for allegedly holding Pastinock for 20 years

A Connecticut man, whose stepmother claimed to have held him in captivity for 20 years, fled by setting fire to the small room in which he was held, staff said.

Authorities responded to the fire and saved the cheating 32-year-old man from a 72-square-foot room (6.7 square meters). The alleged captive weighed 68 pounds (30 pounds) at his escape and was treated for smoke inhalation.

The man acknowledged that he had set fire to the fire after a lasting years of “prolonged abuse, hunger, severe neglect and inhuman treatment,” police in Waterbury, Connecticut, said.

His stepmother, who is accused of being captured and starving, is accused of abduction and cruelty. She denied the allegations.

When he explained his reasoning for the fire on fire, the man told the police, “I wanted my freedom.”

Prosecutors say he has been given a sandwich and two small bottles of water a day for years. He was only released from captivity for two hours a day to deal with cases while under the supervision of his stepmother.

Using a hand, paper and lighter disinfectant, he set fire to the fire, knowing that he could die, a prosecutor said in a court on Wednesday.

His stepmother Kimberly Sullivan, 56 -year -old, was at home during the fire, but did not speak with the authorities when they arrived at the scene.

The lawyer of G -jja Sullivan said the charges were incorrect.

“He was not imprisoned in a room,” lawyer Ioannis Kalidis told local media. “She did not contain it in any way. She provided food; she provided shelter. She was blown up by these claims.”

The fire was subjected to February 17 and the local police arrested Da -ja Sullivan on Wednesday.

The head of the Waterbury Police Fernando Spunno called the details of the case “both heartbreaking and unthinkable.

Police said the victim told them that he had been held captured in his family home in Waterbury from approximately 11 years.

“He has been locked in the room for 20 years and has been trying to get out of this room for 20 years,” the prosecutor said.

The authorities were not unclear when his father died, but they said his conditions were deteriorating as a result.

When found, authorities said there was a body mass index (ITM) of 11. The National Health Service says the healthy range is between 18.5 and 24.9.

Police said that during his captivity, an unnamed man did not receive medical or dental care.