(BROOKLYN, NEW YORK) - A recent early morning assault of a Female Worker at Kingsboro Psychiatric Center by an individual has renewed calls by the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) to improve safety at the Brooklyn Facility.

“This should have never happened,” CSEA Kingsboro Psychiatric Center Local President Conrad Forsythe said. “We need to have a meeting with the administration and our Union and we need to come up with a solution jointly.”

According to Forsythe, the victim works as a Mental Health Therapy Aide.

At the time of the assault, she was working in a Temporary Living Residence (TLR) at which the individual was also residing.

There are three such facilities on the Kingsboro grounds that are supposed to allow individuals to eventually transition out of the center and into the community.

Forsythe noted that TLRs have come under intense scrutiny in the past, however, for not enforcing rules and allowing individuals to come and go as they please.

Details of the incident are under investigation.

Kingsboro Psychiatric Center Security Staff responded to the incident and called the New York Police Department.

Police arrested the individual.

The victim was taken to a nearby hospital, where she was treated and released.

CSEA is deploying every available resource to the Worker, including through the CSEA Employee Benefit Fund’s (EBF) Workplace Security Benefit, which covers Members who experience certain types of workplace violence.

Forsythe noted that the individual involved in this assault has a history of infractions and has been at the facility for at least 17 years.

“There are complaints about him,” Forsythe said. “This is not his first go-around.”

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