Woman stuck to boyfriend’s toilet
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Your eyes are not deceiving you.
Deputies said a woman in western Kansas sat on her boyfriend’s toilet for two years, and they’re investigating whether she was mistreated.
Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said a man called his office last month to report that something was wrong with his girlfriend.
Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman’s skin had grown around the seat. She initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital.
Two years. Sitting on a toilet.
“We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital,” Whipple said. “The hospital removed it.”
Whipple said investigators planned to present their report Wednesday to the county attorney, who will determine whether any charges should be filed against the woman’s 36-year-old boyfriend.
“She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body,” Whipple said. “It is hard to imagine. … I still have a hard time imagining it myself.”
He told investigators he brought his girlfriend food and water, and asked her every day to come out of the bathroom.
“And her reply would be, ‘Maybe tomorrow,”’ Whipple said. “According to him, she did not want to leave the bathroom.”
Now I’ve seen everything. Thanks to The Saucy Vixen for bringing this to my attention.
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It took the boyfriend TWO YEARS to figure out something was wrong? One would think the stench of an two year old unwashed body would have compelled him to take action earlier.
What’s your threshold? One day? Two? I think after 24 hours I might think something’s wrong.
Apparently, there are some mental deficiencies with the boyfriend and the woman has serious problems. This is a really sad story. The woman may be confined to a wheelchair.
I think more than a few hours would be reason enough to call 911. Did she not have any friends or relatives who were curious about her? What a tragedy.
Wait a minute. First, she was in his home as a guest. By definition, he wanted her there and she, evidently, did not wish to leave. Hence, there appears to be no coercion or confinement issue to defend.
Second, if the rumors are true that both have some form of “mental impairment”, then there begs a question of who is the caretaker of the other. He may be intellectually impaired, while she is perhaps agoraphobic. So where does dependent or mistreatment interplay? Is there a legal guardianship at play? Doubtful. He fed her, watered her and but his explicit statement while cooperating with investigators, “I tried to coax her out every day, but she said maybe tomorrow”.
Third, psychologist Tom Szasz espouses that everyone has a right to be crazy, but they are subject to the consequences just like everyone else. Fortunately, the outcomes of her impairment were limited to herself, and not to the detriment of others.
Fourth, even if he had called a day or two after the inception of her “sit in”, what legal imperative could have been invoked to remove someone who is not immediately dangerous to themselves, others or so gravely impaired so as to not be able to care for basic needs? While sho would not leave the bathroom, the BF’s well intended intervention of feeding her, hence enabling the dysfunction, is not mistreatment. Therapeutically, it may have been better to not feed her, subsequently “starve her out”, however he is not a mental health worker capable to make those decisions.
I, for one, would volunteer to be defense expert witness with what I have read in multiple sources. The fact that the prosecutors had to make a charge “best fit” to statute suggests that they really have no case and are railroading an, at best, extremely simple man.