Waterbury, Connecticut police said the stepson, now 32, weighed just 68 pounds when they found him. His stepmother, Kimberly Sullivan, has been charged with kidnapping and cruelty.

When he visited the man in the hospital after the fire, his uncle said, “I was shocked, he looks like a Holocaust survivor.”

A woman allegedly held her “severely emaciated” stepson in captivity for over 20 years, since he was 11 years old, and forced him to endure “prolonged abuse."