The wicked Connecticut “House of Horrors” mom who allegedly kept her stepson locked up in a room for more than two decades rejected two plea deals Friday — opting to gamble her chances at trial.
Kimberly Sullivan, 57, refused to cop to a slew of charges in exchange for a 30-year prison sentence — with one deal allowing for her release after 20 years, and another cushier deal suspending the sentence after just 10.
The defiant stepmom would have had to plead guilty to one count of kidnapping, assault, unlawful restraint and cruelty to persons, the New Haven Register reported.
“It’s a non-starter,” Sullivan’s attorney Ioannis Kaloidis said in July.
“I don’t anticipate the case resolving with anything that involves incarceration.”
The accused evil stepmother’s case will now likely go to trial, with the judge theorizing that the “meat of the trial” will take place in January.
The judge on Friday also knocked down Sullivan’s request to remove her electronic monitoring device, arguing she has made no attempts to flee since her arrest last year.
Sullivan faces two first-degree kidnapping charges as well as first-degree assault, first-degree unlawful restraint and intentional cruelty to persons.
Each kidnapping charge alone carries a maximum of 25 years in the Constitution State.
She has been free on a $300,000 bond since she was arrested last March — after her stepson set fire to the Waterbury home she kept him bolted inside for decades in a desperate bid for freedom.
Sullivan allegedly locked the man inside at the age of 10, and only let him out of the room for a few hours at a time so he could do chores around the home
Prosecutors likened the now-33-year-old stepson’s treatment to that of Holocaust victims, describing the alarmingly emaciated man, who spent much of his life in a state of near-starvation, as, “without exaggeration, akin to a survivor of Auschwitz’s death camp.”
He weighed just 68 pounds when he finally escaped.
Sullivan has denied ever locking her stepson in the room or starving him.
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