UPDATE - http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/20/....ap/index.html

Charges filed against boyfriend of woman stuck on toilet

NESS CITY, Kansas (AP) -- 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, Kansas, 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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I think this is bogus. The guy let her do what she wanted and he's suddenly a criminal?

Wouldn't it be ironic if she left the hospital with an extra anus?

This suggests she was handicapped and couldn't get off the toilet without someones help. If so, that's fuggin horrible.

My last post was wrong (didn't get to this post yet), but at a certain point in the last 2 years, she became disabled and he's on the hook. Not sure it's criminal worthy, but it's a close call.

Yeah, I can see your point there. But it seems like they would have to prove that he had the (medical) knowledge necessary to make that determination. I'm confident that *most* people would have the common sense to make that call, but that can't be a legal argument, can it?

The said on the radio that she became stuck in the last month of the ordeal.. I am sorry even if her legs atrophied and she could not use them, she could have crawled away.. If the guy gets charged, the dumb bitch so be getting charged also..

The hole thing is a shitty deal.
Dealing with a bunch of assholes.
It stinks.