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The DCF investigations occurred from 1996 to 2005 when the victim was between the ages of 3 and 12, report says.
The state Department of Children and Families said it followed protocols in the case of a man who said he was held captive in ...
The Connecticut Department of Children and Families investigated over a nine-year period the case of a child allegedly held ...
During a meeting with the Children’s Committee next week, the Department of Children and Families plans to explain how ...
State lawmakers are weighing in on how the state Department of Children and Families handled the case of a man held captive ...
Amid withering criticism that it failed to intervene, Connecticut’s child welfare agency fired back that it simply did not ...
Bodycam footage from the Waterbury Police Department shows suspected Connecticut child abuser Kimberly Sullivan denying that her stepson, who was allegedly locked in a storage closet in their home ...
DCF explained that they "did not have sufficient evidence" to intervene based on Connecticut law and the information that was ...
The video above includes comments outside the courthouse from Kimberly Sullivan’s attorney Ioannis Kaloidis and the alleged victim’s biological mother, Tracy Vallerand. WATERBURY, Conn. (WTNH ...
In the months since Kimberly Sullivan was arrested and accused of keeping her stepson trapped in her house for decades, ...
The stepson, who had been captive since he was 11, now 32, allegedly set a fire in the home in Waterbury, Connecticut, on Feb. 17 as a desperate bid for freedom. The Waterbury Police Chief ...
Sullivan was able to get out of the house, but firefighters had to remove her 32-year-old stepson from the home. "I saw, the mother and, at the time, what I thought was a child, in the kitchen.