Woman sits on boyfriend's toilet for 2 years
Girlfriend was physically stuck to the seat — her skin had grown around it

The Associated Press
updated 2:05 p.m. CT, Wed., March. 12, 2008

NESS CITY, Kan. - Deputies said a woman in western Kansas sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years, and they're investigating whether she was mistreated.

Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said a man called his office last month to report that something was wrong with his girlfriend.

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 taken to 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 in 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 of the bathroom incident. “What surprises me is somebody wasn’t called in a bit earlier.”

Fucking Kansas

i bet their sex life hasnt been that great the past 2 years.

what

the

fuck

that is one of the weirdest stories i've ever read.

reverse blumpkins?


where did they boyfriend go to the bathroom?

you know, i thought it was 2 days for a couple seconds, and i was already confused
when i saw 2 years,

You've got to be kidding! That's bizarre.

in between her legs...duh. havent you ever dated a girl who was stuck on the toilet before?

As much as I hate saying stuff like this, and I hope nobody here from Kansas is too offended; What the fuck is up with the rural parts of the midwest? All areas of this country have some really fucked up things happen, but when it happens in the midwest it's always fucked up AND REALLY WEIRD.

Who in their right mind lets their girlfriend sit on a toilet for 2 YEARS? I mean, if you're fighting or if she's being unreasonable I can see leaving her there for a few hours, but 2 years?

I'm at least half joking in the last paragraph, btw.

just when you thought you've heard everything

Talk about throwing your life down the toilet. I thought it was a rhetorical phrase, not a rallying cry...

wow.

It's like they're living a Shel Silverstein poem.

Kansas is really disappointing... This should've come out of Florida.

That was my first reaction, too. I drove all the way across the state once, and the Western parts were actually kinda spooky. It seemed like the kinda place where serial killers would hang out.