Hospital Had Released A Young Man Who Attacked An Old Man

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo this week ordered an investigation into the reason why the North Central Bronx Hospital released a schizophrenic patient, who later savagely attacked a 91-year-old man, despite his mother's pleas. years in the street.

According to the New York Post, Rosa Nazar asked the police for help last March because her son Saúl Nuñez was having suicidal tendencies and hallucinating. As part of her delirium, the young man began to carry a cane with her everywhere, to protect herself from the "demons that were near her."

The young man ended up being admitted to the hospital on March 22, but he could only stay there for a week because - according to the mother who explained the center - he had not attacked anyone. However, a few weeks after his discharge, Núñez pounced on the elderly Juan Llorens, whom he repeatedly struck with his cane.

Despite the attack, which caused a head injury, Llorens does not hold a grudge against him. "The culprits are the doctors," he said. "His mother asked for help and they discharged him anyway."

Neither the hospital nor the authorities investigating the case have released statements.

According to the Mayo Clinic, schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. Schizophrenia can lead to some combinations of hallucinations, delusions, and highly disordered thoughts and behaviors that impede daily functioning and can lead to disability.