Is Sitting on the Toilet for Two Years a Crime?

March 14, 2008

What you are about to read is indeed bizarre, but whether or not a crime has actually been committed has yet to be determined. According to the Associated Press, at the urging of the local sheriff the district attorney’s office in Ness City, Kansas, located some 182 miles northwest of Wichita, is considering filing charges against the boyfriend of a woman who purportedly remained inside the bathroom at her boyfriend’s home for approximately two years without coming outside.

By the time emergency medical personnel arrived at 36-year-old Kory McFarren’s home, McFarren’s girlfriend, 35-year-old Pam Babcock, had sat on the toilet seat for so long that her skin had actually begun to grow around the seat, according to what Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple told to the Associated Press. Babcock at first refused the emergency medical services of the paramedics, but was finally convinced by her boyfriend and others that she needed to go to the hospital for evaluation.

"We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital," Whipple told reporters. "The hospital removed it."

Whipple said that Babcock was not tied to the seat, nor had she been glued to it.

"She was just physically stuck by her body," Whipple said. "It is hard to imagine…I still have a hard time imagining it myself."

Although the authorities had at first refused to release the name of the couple, Kory McFarren came forward and agreed to an interview with AP. McFarren is the person who named his girlfriend to the news agency. According to the tale he told, McFarren took his girlfriend food and water every day. He also asked her to come out of the bathroom every day, but she always refused...

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