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***papa-bear*** · 03-13-2008, 10:15 AM

US woman spends two years on boyfriend's toilet

US woman spends two years on boyfriend's toilet | The Register

Belated emergency call prompts crowbar rescue

US authorities are trying to work out why a Kansas woman spent two years on her boyfriend's toilet - so long that by the time he called emergency services her skin had grown around the lav's seat.

When the unnamed 35-year-old Ness City woman's other half finally picked up the phone on 27 February to report that "there was something wrong with his girlfriend", police found her "sitting on the toilet, her sweat pants down to her mid-thigh". She was, according to Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple, "somewhat disoriented", and apparently suffering from atrophied legs.

While she initially said she "didn't need any help, that she was OK and did not want to leave", she was eventually convinced a trip to hospital was in order. Whipple explained: "We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital. The hospital removed it."
Whipple elaborated: "She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body. It is hard to imagine... I still have a hard time imagining it myself."

Investigators were yeserday due to present their report to the county attorney who will decide "whether any charges should be filed against the woman's 36-year-old boyfriend", as ABC puts it.

He reportedly told the authorities he'd taken his bog-bound squeeze food and water every day, and asked her "to come out of the bathroom". Whipple said: "And her reply would be, 'Maybe tomorrow'. According to him, she did not want to leave the bathroom."

The former privy prisoner is now described as "in fair condition at a hospital in Wichita, about 150 miles southeast of Ness City", but has "refused to cooperate with medical providers or law enforcement investigators".

Neighbour James Ellis said he'd known the woman since she was a child but hadn't seen her for about six years. He explained that she'd "had a tough childhood after her mother died at a young age and apparently was usually kept inside the house as she grew up".

He concluded: "It really doesn't surprise me. What surprises me is somebody wasn't called in a bit earlier." ®

***MSYoung*** · 03-13-2008, 10:31 AM

I am curious, if she did not get off the toilet for two years, where did he go to the bathroom? CNN this morning showed their home and it is a mobile home, not aware that those had more than one bathroom.

***JulianW*** · 03-13-2008, 11:18 AM

Maybe he was friendly with one (or more) of the neighbours?

Maybe he just told them that his was broken?

I can't see them pinning this one on the boyfriend, I suppose he could have stopped feeding her and got her to come out that way but then he'd probably be done for cruelty.

***MSYoung*** · 03-13-2008, 11:21 AM

The boyfriend isn't the sharpest tool in the shed anyway since it took him two years to realize that his girlfriend's behavior was not normal.

***papa-bear*** · 03-13-2008, 02:29 PM

You wonder how the relationship made it this far. I think I would have a shrink in after a couple of days.

It never crossed my mind about how they may have shared the w/c. I assumed there was more than one.

ABabbitt · 03-14-2008, 08:55 AM

This story has got to be a joke... I know it was on CNN and all.. but honestly.. the human body can't grow into something like that, can it? And how could she stay sitting that long???

***papa-bear*** · 03-14-2008, 10:26 AM

my legs fall asleep if I am there too long (oops, too much information

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***JulianW*** · 03-14-2008, 11:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ABabbitt

This story has got to be a joke... I know it was on CNN and all.. but honestly.. the human body can't grow into something like that, can it? And how could she stay sitting that long???

The human body will also calcium coat (calcify) any foreign body it finds in the wrong place, ever seen the TV shows where they show you the now extracted unborn twin 40 years later? The human body is amazing in what it can manage to do.

***Lmo*** · 03-16-2008, 07:58 PM

Yes. Remember the woman a few years ago that was morbidly obese and sat or laid on the couch for a couple of years and her skin grew into the couch? I guess this is the same. Who could just sit on a couch or toilet for a solid year??? I guess this one would be better than the one on the couch (bet that couch had an aroma all it's own. YUK!)

Java_Bob · 03-20-2008, 09:40 AM

Boyfriend charged in Kansas toilet case

A man whose girlfriend authorities say spent nearly two years in a bathroom in their house, sitting on the toilet so long that the seat adhered to her body, has been charged with mistreatment of a dependent adult.
Kory McFarren, 37, was charged Monday in Ness County District Court.
McFarren called the Ness County Sheriff's Office in late February to say something was wrong with his girlfriend. When authorities arrived at the home, they found Pam Babcock, 35, stuck to the toilet, which they think she had sat on for about a month.
McFarren told authorities that Babcock feared leaving the bathroom and may not have left it in two years, although said he was unsure how long she was in there. He said that he took her food and water daily, and that he repeatedly asked her to come out but that she usually replied "maybe tomorrow."
"The only thing I am guilty of is I didn't get her help sooner," McFarren told The Associated Press nearly a week ago.
Ness County Attorney Craig Crosswhite said the mistreatment charge most closely fit the situation.
"I looked at the statutes and spoke to the attorney general's office," he said. "This was a very unusual set of circumstances, and this is the law that most closely applied to the situation."
Authorities said Babcock sat on the toilet so long that open sores developed and caused her to become attached to the seat. Sheriff Bryan Whipple has said that he used a pry bar to remove the seat from the toilet, and that the woman was taken to the hospital with the seat still attached.
"She would have to be sleeping on the toilet," Whipple said.
Doctors at a Wichita hospital where Babcock was taken told McFarren that an infection in her legs had damaged her nerves and could leave her in a wheelchair. She was still at the hospital Wednesday night.
McFarren's first court appearance will be in April, Crosswhite said.

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