India, March 14 -- A man who was in a house fire confessed to the firefighters that he set the fire on purpose before revealing his harrowing reason behind the act. He claimed that he did so to get his freedom and escape from his stepmother, who allegedly kept him in captivity for 20 years, since he was 11 years old. Now, 32 and weighing only 30 kgs, according to the police, the man was kept in a condition which was "worse than jail."

The Waterbury Police Department in Connecticut shared a Facebook post detailing the incident. The police said that the cops, along with personnel from the Waterbury Fire Department, responded to a fire on February 17. They found two occupants, 56-year-old Kimberly Sullivan and a 32-year-old male, who was la...