Boyfriend Charged In Stuck-To-Toilet-For-2-Years Case

I know many of you were doubting this story was real. Criminal charges add a nice, Jesse MacBeth-level of reality to it.

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 her body, has been charged with mistreatment of a dependent adult.

A Kansas man whose girlfriend authorities say spent nearly two years in a bathroom -- and one month on the toilet -- was charged Monday with mistreatment of a dependent adult. "This was a very unusual set of circumstances, and this is the law that most closely applied to the situation," the prosecutor said.

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.

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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.

I don't want to make light of this, but if a woman ever allowed me to sit on the toilet for two years and brought food and water to me to permit such a thing, I'd marry her. Just mount a flat-panel tv opposite the can and I'm alll good.

They should be giving this guy a medal, not an indictment.

Thanks to Nigel.

posted by Ace at 08:13 PM

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