Emaciated Conn. horror house victim akin to Auschwitz survivor drank from toilets, urinated in bottles to stay alive

A severely emaciated man, who was “akin to a survivor of Auschwitz’s death camp” when he was rescued from a Connecticut house of horrors, managed to survive decades in captivity by drinking from a toilet bowl, urinating in bottles and eating just two sandwiches a day, cops allege.Harrowing details about the 32-year-old’s life padlocked in a tiny room inside his Waterbury home only emerged Wednesday after his stepmom, Kimberly Sullivan, 56, was arrested and charged over the pattern of shocking alleged abuse that authorities likened to “a horror movie.”The victim, who weighed a mere 68 pounds, opened up to cops about the hellish conditions he was forced to endure since he was a child when he was rescued after deliberately setting his home on fire on Feb.17 so he could escape the nightmare.

(According to CDC data, the “average” 32-year-old American male weighs approximately 200 pounds.)He spent at least 22 hours of his day locked away in a cramped, 8-by-9-foot “back storage space” on the second floor that was bolted shut from the outside, according to court documents.The malnourished vic told cops he was given just two cups of water per day and desperately drank out of the toilet bowl when he had the chance.Each day, he allegedly was given two sandwiches to eat, which were made up mostly of deli meats, peanut butter and occasionally tuna or egg salad.

“When asked if he was hungry every day, he stated, ‘All day, everyday, my entire life,'” the court papers state.As a small boy, the victim recalled having a “training potty chair” in his cramped sleeping space.When he was a teen, though, he was forced to rely on bottles and newspapers in order to relieve himself.“[The victim] described how after he urinated into a bottle, he would have to then funnel it into a tube he created with a series of straws and then guide those straws through a hole in the window to empty it,” the filing charges.

When he needed to defecate, he would place a...