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Thread started 03/20/08 10:14am

DarlinLaurie

Boyfriend of woman stuck to toilet charged

At least the boyfriend is being held accountable for not doing anything! confused


Boyfriend of woman stuck to toilet charged
Man held responsible for girlfriend staying in bathroom for 2 years


Lindsey Bauman / AP file

NESS CITY, Kan. - 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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Reply #1 posted 03/20/08 10:17am

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the return of toilet girl!
small circles, big wheels!
I've got a pretty firm grip on the obvious!
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Reply #2 posted 03/20/08 12:10pm

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What I do not get about this story is, wouldn't she get that syndrome you get from sitting in the same place too long, like on a long airplane flight they ask you to walk around to not lose circulation??
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Reply #3 posted 03/21/08 3:25pm

PEJ

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PaisleyPark5083 said:

What I do not get about this story is, wouldn't she get that syndrome you get from sitting in the same place too long, like on a long airplane flight they ask you to walk around to not lose circulation??



patellofemoral syndrome?
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