Woman had a phobia about leaving the bathroom?

I want to know how this is really possible. I can’t even stand being in the bathroom while I’m using it! This story is from MSNBC and came from the Associated Press.

WICHITA, Kan. updated on March. 13, 2008

A “man” allowed his girlfriend to sit on the toilet seat so long her body became stuck to the seat and he will more then likely be charged for it. Sheriff Bryan Whipple was one of the men who discovered the woman last month living in the bathroom of a mobile home that she shared with her boyfriend, Kory McFarren. “The smell was overpowering — a terrible smell about the house, obviously coming from where she was at.” The boyfriend Kory McFarren, 36, told police his girlfriend, Pam Babcock, 35, had a phobia about leaving the bathroom and may not have left the bathroom in two years, although he’s unsure how long she was in there because he said that “time just went by so quick I can’t pinpoint how long.” He said beatings she received in her childhood caused her phobia.
The only thing I am guilty of is I didn’t get her help sooner,” he told the Associated Press on Thursday.
He told them that she moved around in the bathroom during that time, bathed and changed into the clothes he brought her. He brought food and water to her. They had conversations and had an otherwise normal relationship except it all happened in the bathroom.
The sheriff said that judging by the woman’s condition she had open sores on which the toilet seat would stick it appeared she likely sat on the toilet continually for at least a month. This honestly is one of the strangest stories I have ever heard. I would love to see this idiot go to prison for allowing this to happen. If my loved one locked themselves in my bathroom for more then two hours I would be on the phone to the authorities reporting something was wrong.