WTF! 15 YEAR OLD GIRL GETS SODOMIZED BY AN 11 YEAR OLD BOY IN THE PSYCH WARD!

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.

"She has panic attacks when she's in her room, when she's in the shower," Watson said. "I feel heartbroken my daughter is still there. She should have been moved within hours."

The troubled girl arrived at the city-run hospital on Manhattan's East Side on Feb. 23.

Watson paid her daily visits. The girl told her mom she was depressed, but she appeared to be coping with her new living situation fairly well, Watson said.

Then came the March 9 visit.

Seated across from her daughter inside the psych ward's sparse visiting room, Watson noticed her girl's eyes were vacant. Something was bothering her.

"Baby, what's wrong?" Watson asked.

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."

After her daughter finished describing the attack, an enraged Watson confronted staffers who told her it was under investigation. The boy was arrested March 11 and charged with a criminal sex act.

Still, for the next two weeks, the boy remained in the same ward with the girl, adding to her pain. Hearing her daughter whimper every day left Watson feeling shattered.

"It took all the strength that I had to hold my composure," said Watson, who has filed a notice of claim and plans to sue the city for $20 million. "I didn't want her to see me break down and cry."

The boy was arraigned March 29 in family court, officials said.

He pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct and is awaiting sentencing. He faces up to a year in a juvenile detention center.

Watson said she doesn't want to remove her daughter from the facility because it will delay her placement in a state hospital for long-term treatment.

A spokeswoman for the state Department of Mental Health said she could not discuss specific cases.

"We take all such allegations seriously and the matter is under police investigation," said a Metropolitan Hospital spokesman.

Watson said her daughter, who loves to dance and play basketball, is still reeling.

"Her smile used to brighten up a room," said Watson, inside the office of her lawyer, Martha Gold. "Now, I have to ask her to smile for me, and when she smiles, I can still see the pain, the hurt, the anger, the sadness."



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