Connecticut ‘house of horrors’ wicked stepmom hides face for hearing on anniversary of arrest

The Connecticut “House of Horrors” mom accused of imprisoning her stepson in foul conditions for over 20 years hid her face as she scurried to and from court on the anniversary of her arrest.

Kimberly Sullivan, 57, ducked for cover as she rushed from her car to a Waterbury court for a brief hearing Thursday, and then back out minutes later.

Sullivan refused to answer questions like “What’s wrong with you, why did you do that to your stepson?” as she passed with sunglasses on and a hood over her face.

She was sporting her typically flamboyant looks – purple hair and a suit to match.

Sullivan is accused of keeping her stepson – now 33 – locked in a filthy room in their Waterbury home beginning when he was around 10, only letting him out for a few hours so he could do chores.

The stepson – currently known only as “S” in public — weighed just 68 pounds when he was discovered in February 2025 after he apparently set fire to his room in a desperate escape attempt.

Police initially thought they were dealing with a typical housefire, but S soon began telling terrifying tales of being taken out of school as a boy, before being relegated to the upstairs storage room that allegedly became his prison-home for decades.

Sullivan was arrested within weeks, but soon freed on $300,000 bail while being ordered not to contact her stepson.

She was in court for barely two minutes a year later on Thursday, with her attorney discussing logistics for obtaining the stepson’s medical records as trial preparations are underway.

Sullivan won a major legal breakthrough in October when a judge granted her access to the medical records after her attorneys argued the typically confidential information was crucial to the defense.

“We are really trying to see what evidence they have and what evidence they are going to produce at trial. I don’t know what’s in there. We’ll know when we see them,” Sullivan’s attorney, Ioannis Kaloidis, told reporters after the hearing.

“It wasn’t true then and it’s not true now,” Kaloidis added when asked whether Sullivan really did starve her stepson – but he refused to comment when asked why S weighed just 68-pounds when rescued from the housefire.

“We’ll see,” the attorney told The Post, shrugging.

Sullivan has been in hiding since she was arrested – with her attorney saying she’d been branded “public enemy number one” in the last year.

“As you can imagine, any time your face is plastered all over the news, you become public enemy number one. It does make it difficult to go out and resume a normal life,” Kaloidis.

It remains unclear where Sullivan has been living, but the home she shared with her stepson was left a scorched husk after the February fire.

The stepson remains in an undisclosed location, and has reportedly been recovering well after a hospital stay.

Sullivan is due back in court on April 30, and is charged with kidnapping, assault, unlawful restraint and cruelty to persons. She pleaded not guilty to the charges.