> Sheriff: Woman spent 2 years sitting on boyfriend's toilet
> The Associated Press
> WICHITA | A 35-year-old woman who apparently spent two years in her
> boyfriend's bathroom in Ness City had become stuck to the toilet seat,
> authorities said Wednesday.
>
> "She was not glued. She was not tied. She was just physically stuck by
her
> body. It is hard to imagine. ... I still have a hard time imagining it
> myself," Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said in a telephone
interview,
> adding that it appeared her body fat had grown attached to the seat.
>
> Authorities planned to present their re****t to the county attorney later
> Wednesday to see if any charges should be filed against her 36-year-old
> boyfriend, Whipple said.
>
> The boyfriend called police on Feb. 27 to re****t that "there was
something
> wrong with his girlfriend," Whipple said, adding he never explained why
it
> took him two years to call.
>
> He said the boyfriend had brought the woman food and water during the
two
> years and told investigators he asked her daily 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 house had another bathroom he could use.
>
> Police found the clothed woman sitting on the toilet, her sweat pants
down
> to her mid-thigh as if she was using the toilet. Her legs looked like
they
> had atrophied, he said.
>
> "She was sitting on the toilet and was somewhat disoriented," Whipple
> said. "She said that she didn't need any help, that she was OK and did
not
> want to leave."
>
> She refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by
> responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out. She was
> taken to a hospital in Wichita, about 150 miles southeast of Ness City,
> where she is listed in fair condition. Whipple said she has refused to
> cooperate with medical providers or law enforcement investigators.
>
> "We pried the toilet seat off with a prybar and the seat went with her
to
> the hospital," Whipple said. "The hospital removed it."
>
> Authorities said they did not know if she was developmentally 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.
>
> A neighbor, James Ellis, told The Associated Press that he had known the
> woman since she was a child but said 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.
>
> "It really doesn't surprise me," Ellis said of the bathroom incident.
> "What surprises me is somebody wasn't called in a bit earlier.
>
> 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.
>
> The case has been the buzz of this western Kansas town.
>
> "I don't think anybody can make any sense out of it," Ellis said.
>
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