NESS CITY, Kan. (AP) _ The sheriff is recommending charges be filed in the case of a woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for so long that her body was stuck to the seat.

Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said Thursday he asked the county attorney to file charges against Kory McFarren for mistreatment of a dependent adult. The county attorney will decide whether charges are brought.

"The unfortunate thing is this truly is a case of two people, in my opinion, with dimished mental capacity,'' Whipple said.

McFarren did not answer his door Thursday. But he later called The Associated Press and said he was done giving media interviews. He said he did nothing wrong.

"The only thing I am guilty of is I didn't get her help sooner,'' he said.

Sheriff Whipple said the boyfriend called his office late last month to report that something was wrong with his girlfriend. The sheriff said the woman had become physically stuck to the toilet seat. He says her muscles had atrophied and that medical personnel had to remove her from the toilet because she was bound to it by "natural means" - her body fat had grown attached to the seat.

Whipple said the woman at first refused ambulance service and "didn't want to leave.'' He says she's refusing to cooperate with medical personnel at the hospital and with investigators.

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, but she would not. He didn't say if the boyfriend explained why it took two years before he decided to call authorities.

Whipple said his office will present its report to the county attorney, who may charge the boyfriend with mistreatment of a dependent adult.

A neighbor tells the AP 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.

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