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Kings County Hospital's psych chief, security boss ousted over death

BY BARRY PADDOCK, XANA O'NEILL and STEPHANIE GASKELL
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Wednesday, July 2nd 2008, 8:28 PM

The head of psychiatry at Kings County Hospital was among the six people fired after a Brooklyn woman was left to die on a waiting room floor last month.

Pierre Arty got the ax, along with Kenneth Jones, the hospital's director of security, for his role in the shocking June 19 death of Esmin Green.

"I'd rather not talk right now," Arty told the Daily News outside his Brooklyn apartment Wednesday. "I think it's in my best interest not to say anything."


Dr. Pierre Arty


Four other employees also were fired, including two security guards who can be seen on a disturbing hospital video looking at Green, 49, as she lay on the floor dying, then ignoring her.

Green's daughter said she was too upset to watch the video.

"I have not seen it and to tell you the truth, I don't want to see it," a distraught Trecia Harrison told The News by phone from the island of Jamaica. "My heart is broken. My 2-year-old daughter won't know her grandmother."

She said no one from the city or the hospital had called her.

I need to know: Why did she have to sit there alone?" Harrison said, adding that her mother moved to New York eight years ago.

"My mother is one of the stronger women in the world," she said. "She was just lonely. She was missing her kids."

A friend said Green knocked on her door early on June 18 asking for help after losing her job and her apartment.

"From the time I saw her, I knew something was wrong," said Marilyn Ann Johnson, pastor of Jesus Is Lord church in Canarsie, Brooklyn, where Green was a Sunday school teacher.

Johnson called 911 and had Green admitted to Kings County Hospital.
"She stepped into the ambulance. Twenty-four hours after, she was a dead woman," Johnson said.

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