
A Bronx teen sought refuge at a facility designed to help patients like her – vulnerable teens battling emotional issues.
But once inside Metropolitan Hospital’s child psychiatric ward, the 15-year-old girl was forcibly sodomized by another patient – an 11-year-old boy, authorities said.
“When my daughter told me what happened, I felt like a knife had pierced me in my heart,” the victim’s mother, Patricia Watson, told the Daily News.
“The hospital failed to protect her. They failed to protect my daughter.”
The teen’s torment has only compounded in recent weeks because she is still in the same unit where she was attacked last month, awaiting a transfer to a state facility.
The girl then described the assault in wrenching detail, telling her mother the boy crept into her room the night before while she was sleeping.
He sat on her back and tapped her on her shoulder. The boy then started feeling her breasts, the girl told her mom.
He pulled down her pants and underwear. She tried to resist, but still he sodomized her.
“I tried to push him off, but I couldn’t,” the girl told prosecutors, court documents say. “I told him to stop a lot of times, but he didn’t. He told me to shut up.”
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