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Woman sits on toilet for 2 years;
Sheriff Whipple to the rescue |
Associated Press
Authorities
are considering charges in the bizarre case
of a woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet
for two years -- so long that her body was
stuck to the seat by the time the boyfriend
finally called police.
Ness County Sheriff Bryan 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.
``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.''
The boyfriend called police on Feb. 27 to
report that ``there was something wrong with
his girlfriend,'' Whipple said, adding that
he never explained why it took him two years
to call.
Police found the clothed woman sitting on
the toilet, her sweat pants down to her
mid-thigh. She was ``somewhat disoriented,''
and her legs looked like they had atrophied,
Whipple said.
``She said that she didn't need any help,
that she was OK and did not want to leave,''
he said.
She was reported in fair condition at a
hospital in Wichita, about 150 miles
southeast of Ness City. Whipple said she has
refused to cooperate with medical providers
or law enforcement investigators.
Authorities said they did not know if she
was mentally or physically disabled.
Police have declined to release the couple's
names, but the house where authorities say
the incident happened is listed in public
records as the residence of Kory McFarren.
No one answered his home phone number.
The case has been the buzz Ness City, said
James Ellis, a neighbor.
``I don't think anybody can make any sense
out of it,'' he said.
Ellis said he had known the woman since she
was a child but that he had not seen her for
at least six years.
He said she had a tough childhood after her
mother died at a young age and apparently
was usually kept inside the house as she
grew up. At one time the woman worked for a
long-term care facility, he said, but he did
not know what kind of work she did there.
``It really doesn't surprise me,'' Ellis
said of the bathroom incident. ``What
surprises me is somebody wasn't called in a
bit earlier.''
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