The mentally handicapped teen turned up at Kings County Hospital's psychiatric emergency room on a frigid Saturday just before Thanksgiving 2008.
Then he disappeared - for six days.
Day after day, the mentally retarded autistic 18-year-old - labeled in internal reports as Patient GB - lived inside the waiting room of the hospital's emergency room. He was not officially registered as a patient, although staff members repeatedly wrote inrecords that he was okay. "Every 15 minutes there's an entry stating he was there sitting in the waiting room . . . that he w
as fine," said a source familiar with the case.(Left) The Doctor, Pierre Arty
One of those reassuring notations was entered into the records at the same time Patient GB was found in a bathroom, forced to perform oral sex on another patient.
The reassuring record was a lie.
When investigators checked what records existed for Patient GB, they discovered hospital employees had made numerous entries in logbooks that were contradicted by videos of the waiting room showing the teenager wasn't where they had claimed he was and nobody was checking on him.
After the state was notified, the boy's mother picked him up and brought him back home. The mother declined to discuss the incident.
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