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Brooklyn College Psych Ward Student's Odd MySpace Page
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John Del Signore
Published Jan 14, 2011
Modified Jan 14, 2011
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Yesterday we reported on the honors student from Nigeria who is suing Brooklyn College for allegedly committing her to the dreaded Kings County Psychiatric Hospital for two weeks against her will, after she sought advice about a surveillance camera she claims to have found in the bedroom her off-campus apartment. Now Brooklyn College spokesman Jeremy Thompson tells us it was EMS, not college personnel, who made the decision to commit Chinemerem Eze. But Thompson could offer no details about what led up to EMS being called to the campus that day in 2008. Eze's MySpace page, started in April 2010, isn't much help either, but it is pretty peculiar.
This is Eze's MySpace profile, according to the NY Times. In one comment, she announces that she's disowning the Eze family and changing her name to Sophia Abraham McWill. In another, she writes, "I am BY FAR SANER than any of you,” adding that she “would GLADLY destroy it all to make sure YOU PAY." Further down, she declares, "Yes I like that you kidnapped me and were singing at window and asking me about landlady and masturbation(you are all mad).GOD ALLOWED IT"
Yesterday, Eze told the Daily News, "I'm a foreign student—I didn't know where to go. I just went to make a report to the security department. I wanted them to come investigate." Her lawyer, Andrew Spinnell, did not personally see the camera Eze says she found in her bedroom, and her allegations that ex-roommates were defaming her on the Internet have not been substantiated. Spinnell says Eze's two weeks in the hospital caused her to miss her final exams, and that Brooklyn College refused to let her take them after she was released. But Thompson, the college spokesman, tells us, "At end of 2008 we actually provided her with a number of opportunities to return to school and finish her coursework, and she elected not to do that."
Eze, who won a $110,000 settlement last year from Kings County Hospital Center, is not currently enrolled at any university.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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