Sheriff: Woman sat on toilet for 2 years

[Janett_Reno]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080312/...AOYwDm0nsDW7oF

Authorities are considering charges in the bizarre case of a woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years — so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time the boyfriend finally called police.

Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman's skin had grown around the seat. She initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital.

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

Whipple said investigators planned to present their report Wednesday to the county attorney, who will determine whether any charges should be filed against the woman's 36-year-old boyfriend.

"She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by her body," Whipple said. "It is hard to imagine. ... I still have a hard time imagining it myself."

He told investigators he brought his girlfriend food and water, and asked her every day to come out of the bathroom.

"And her reply would be, `Maybe tomorrow,'" Whipple said. "According to him, she did not want to leave the bathroom."

The boyfriend called police on Feb. 27 to report that "there was something wrong with his girlfriend," Whipple said, adding that he never explained why it took him two years to call.

Police found the clothed woman sitting on the toilet, her sweat pants down to her mid-thigh. She was "somewhat disoriented," and her legs looked like they had atrophied, Whipple said.

"She said that she didn't need any help, that she was OK and did not want to leave," he said.

She was reported in fair condition at a hospital in Wichita, about 150 miles southeast of Ness City. Whipple said she has refused to cooperate with medical providers or law enforcement investigators.

Authorities said they did not know if she was mentally or physically disabled.

Police have declined to release the couple's names, but the house where authorities say the incident happened is listed in public records as the residence of Kory McFarren. No one answered his home phone number.

The case has been the buzz of Ness City, said James Ellis, a neighbor.

"I don't think anybody can make any sense out of it," he said.

Ellis said he had known the woman since she was a child but that he had not seen her for at least six years.

He said she had a tough childhood after her mother died at a young age and apparently was usually kept inside the house as she grew up. At one time the woman worked for a long-term care facility, he said, but he did not know what kind of work she did there.

"It really doesn't surprise me," Ellis said. "What surprises me is somebody wasn't called in a bit earlier."

[u2sarajevo]

Very odd... sad story.

I can't believe she let 2 years of her life flush down the tubes like that.

[untitled]

What a sh*tty condition! With such a disability, it appears that all of her aspirations in life will turn out to be nothing but a pipe dream.

[alexamenos]

i'm gonna print this out and read it next time I drop a deuce.

[Underdog]

I wonder how desperate/lonely that guy was to stay with her?

[u2sarajevo]

Originally Posted by Underdog

I wonder how desperate/lonely that guy was to stay with her?

I bet his neighbors were tired of him always borrowing their toilet yet seeing him return from the grocery with toilet paper....

[untitled]

Originally Posted by u2sarajevo

I bet his neighbors were tired of him always borrowing their toilet yet seeing him return from the grocery with toilet paper....

But if she's attached to the seat, how can she wipe?

[ShaggyDirk]

a lot of potential in this thread.

[MavsX]

these are all shi*ty jokes! drum roll please!

[Janett_Reno]

After reading the article, i had to make sure it wasn't April Fool's day myself but it looks like a true story and pretty sad and weird. You know she had and has a sore rear side from doing that much sitting on the toilet.

[Flacolaco]

She wrote a book during her time there: The Gospel of the John

[MavsX]

Originally Posted by Flacolaco

She wrote a book during her time there: The Gospel of the John

i knew you'd come through with a joke.

[Underdog]

Originally Posted by Flacolaco

She wrote a book during her time there: The Gospel of the John

ba-dum-bum!

When is your performance at the Apollo, again?

[Jack.Kerr]

Somehow I have to think that there was a regular monthly disability check involved in here somewhere.

[bernardos70]

Upon arrival of the police, the woman was quoted as saying

"I'm getting too old for this sh*t"

[u2sarajevo]

I wonder if she was a Sheryl Crow fan.... that might explain why there never was a need to plunger the toilet.

[bernardos70]

Poor taste.

[Dirkgreatness]

How the heck can someone do that????? I can't even sit on the couch more than 2 hours let alone for 2 years.

[fluid.forty.one]

I can't think of a single scenario in which this makes any sense.

[bernardos70]

I've never heard of someone so up her @$$

[Flacolaco]

Guys, grow up and stop all of this bathroom humor.

[mary]

I wonder if she was about to fart.

[Underdog]

The comedy around here?

Swing and a miss!

[ShaggyDirk]

Nope, still not funny. back later.

[sike]

I heard the Musers talk about this story this morning....man, this is so sad.

[EricaLubarsky]

I heard her name was LaTrina.

[Underdog]

Because you give a sh!t:

Boyfriend of woman stuck to toilet charged
Man held responsible for girlfriend staying in bathroom for 2 years


NESS CITY, Kan. - 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 he 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 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.

[EricaLubarsky]

so sad and yet so bizarre that you have to marvel.

[FINtastic]

When the police got there, they asked in disbelief, "Woman, are you on crack?"

"No" she replied, "I'm on pot".

[chumdawg]

Originally Posted by FINtastic

When the police got there, they asked in disbelief, "Woman, are you on crack?"

"No" she replied, "I'm on pot".

Dad joke of the week?

[FINtastic]

Isn't it fun to be able to laugh a lil' bit?