Stranger than Fiction

Okay, guys, have you heard about this one?

Woman Stuck to Toilet Seat for Two Years

At first I thought it was a joke, but it's totally a true story.

The News reported the incredibly bizarre case of a woman in Ness City, Kan., who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years -- becoming stuck to the seat as her skin literally grew around it.

For all that time, the boyfriend, whom authorities would not identify, took her food and water, and, he told Ness County Sheriff's officers, begged her to come out. But he apparently never thought to call for help until Feb. 27.

The sheriff suggested that the boyfriend should be charged "for mistreatment of a dependent adult."

And he was.

Here's your question: Were the police right to charge the boyfriend? Why or why not?

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