WATERBURY, Conn. – The biological mom of the man who was allegedly locked away and starved for two decades by his accused wicked stepmother blasted officials Tuesday for not allowing her to contact her son and keeping information on his well-being from her.

Tracy Vallerand was in court Tuesday where her son’s alleged captor, Kimberly Sullivan, had been scheduled for a hearing – which was rescheduled for next month without Sullivan’s appearance.

The son – now 32 – was only freed from 20 years of captivity after he set fire to the house where Sullivan, 57, allegedly locked him away, torturing and starving him.

The victim – who was only 68 pounds when he was liberated in February – spoke out anonymously for the first time last week since his release.

“I am much better and stronger than I was the day the first responders carried me out of my home,” the victim said at the time.

But Vallerand has yet to be reunited with her son whom she gave up for a better life with his father and new wife, Sullivan, when the child was just six months old.  

Vallerand claims state authorities have been keeping details about his recovery and location from her.

“The state failed me again,” Vallerand said. “So not only has he been withheld from me for the last 32 years, they’re still withholding him from me now.”

While the mom said she is “very happy” to hear that he’s begun recovering, “it still breaks my heart because he still needs to know what love is.

“He was denied that.”

“He needs to speak. He needs to take his life back. He’s a full grown man,” Vallerand said.

“I cry every day… It’s hard,” Vallerand said of reading her son’s statement from last week.

And she said it’s hard to control herself from the anger she feels every time she attends Sullivan’s court appearances.

“I control myself every time I have to step into this courtroom and be an adult and not do anything stupid,” Vallerand said. “And I won’t do anything stupid because he needs justice.”

Vallerand has previously said she gave up the boy because of “personal issues,” believing he would have a better life with the boy’s dad Kregg Sullivan and wife Kimberly.

Vallerand never imagined Sullivan would go on to allegedly lock the boy away in a small room inside their squalid Waterbury home for more than 20 years — leaving him so hungry and thirsty, he’d drink out of the toilet.

The mom, who lives in Meriden just 15 miles away from Waterbury, said she and her family tried to find him to no avail, with her brother-in-law even once hiring a private investigator.

Vallerand’s daughter and the victim’s half-sister, Heather Tessman, balked at the fact that Sullivan was allowed to walk free on $300,00 bail and at her attempt to get her cell phone back and return to the filthy House of Horrors to collect certain belongings.

“It’s a joke that she’s out at all,” Tessman, 35, said. “She doesn’t deserve to be walking down the streets. It’s insulting.”

Prosecutors tried during two separate hearings to have Sullivan thrown into jail, claiming the victim is living in constant “fear.”

He was kept in an 8-by-9 foot storage room that was locked from the outside and only provided with two sandwiches a day to survive. He was forced to relieve himself in bottles of water or on top of newspapers, he told cops in an interview.

The victim resorted to setting his space ablaze so Sullivan was forced to call 911 — ultimately leading to his discovery.

When he was rescued, he wasn’t just emaciated but he hadn’t been permitted a proper shower in two years and hadn’t had a haircut in three, officials said.

Sullivan has pleaded not guilty to charges of cruelty and kidnapping.

Outside court Tuesday, Sullivan’s lawyer, John Kaloidis, said: “My client has done nothing wrong. She is adamant that she is innocent. And she is innocent of anything until a jury decides otherwise.”

Kaloidis said he anticipates that Sullivan will be allowed to get her cell phone back and he said he expects the issue of whether she can return to pick up her things will be addressed at her next hearing on May 27.