Kansas Pam Babcock Lived on Toilet for 2 Years

Can Pam Go Back to Her Seat?

One day, 35-year-old Pam Babcock of Ness City in Kansas went to use her boyfriend's toilet. Two long years later, authorities were called to remove Pam (and the toilet seat that her skin had grown around) from the bathroom.

According to this story by Associated Press writer Roxana Hegeman, the boyfriend claimed that he brought Pam clean clothing and food every day. Boyfriend Kory McFarren wasn't concerned about Pam living in the bathroom until she appeared mentally disoriented and groggy.

The boyfriend claimed that Pam would move around in the bathroom, and take showers, but this sounds hard to believe if she was on the toilet seat long enough for her skin to grow around it. Apparently, Pam had been beaten as a child and had decided that the bathroom was a safe place to stay.

Kory, the boyfriend brings up an interesting point-of-view by explaining that Pam was an adult and capable of choosing where she would like to live. He further explained that after a period of time, the situation became a normal part of their relationship, and that the relationship continued in a normal fashion, except that everything happened in the bathroom.

I believe that most people can understand how childhood beatings may lead into strange adult insecurities, but what I don't understand is how any couple can have 2-years worth of normal relationship with one partner sitting on the toilet. Did Kory put the Christmas tree in the bathroom? Or, did he just decorate some garland over the towel bars?

On Valentine's Day, did Kory bring a tiny table into the room to put the roses on? Did Pam spend the next 2-weeks starting at the roses as they slowly decomposed? I am full of questions. How did Kory get the ladder into the bathroom to change an overhead light bulb if this bathroom is like most with the toilet behind the door?

Kansas has 'Wizard Of Oz' storms; did they huddle together in that bathroom, or did that house have two bathrooms? If that house didn't have two bathrooms, where did Kory go to do his thing? And, why didn't anybody anywhere miss Pam? Didn't this "normal" couple have friends?