Brooklyn College Psych Ward Student's Odd MySpace Page

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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By John Del Signore in News on January 14, 2011 12:33 PM

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Sophia McWill

Also, it seems like the young lady did go back to attend school, proceeded to continue with her exams, got an A on the very first exam, but AS A MATTER OF FACT AND CONTRARY TO WHAT IS BEING SAID, she was STOPPED by the school instructing all the Professors to desist from giving her exams and she was told to LEAVE THE SCHOOL FOR SOME OBSESSIVE REASON.
It is a curious fact that in this day and age of internet, not a single letter "SUPPOSEDLY " in support of her resuming school was sent to the ERUDITE and RESPONSIBLE young lady who by the way has so many Community Volunteer Hours of serving New York to her name. This being as she was stopped from attending school, she - as a hard working person turned her efforts to helping out in the community. YOU REALLY REALLY NEED TO GET BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY GOTHAMIST!!!

Sophia McWill

She had every right to put that up there - its called free speech. It's just too bad if you don't like it. What they did was a violation of her civil rights. She had been in America for only eight months as an International Honors student at Brooklyn College. She was on the day of the shameful illegality that occured at Brooklyn College, on her way to presenting her Honor's group paper at Manhattan. Apparently she stepped out of a job interview at the school and innocuously decided to make a brief report at Brooklyn College's Bizzare school security office when FOR NO REASON, she was bundled illegally into the EMS even though she stated clearly that they should not. She told them clearly that she thereby no longer wanted to be a student of the school in that case!!!! YOU CAN'T DO THAT TO ANYBODY!!! It's called FALSE ARREST!!!
After all this it was still still done FOR MALICIOUS ENVIOUS REASONS!!! People in America really need to stop hating and being obsessive.

darkdrseuss

As a person that works NYC EMS, we don't commit anyone. Unfortunately the law is written that when someone calls in a call psych in nature, we don't have the authority to accept a refusal. Both PD and EMS respond, and pretty much the patient has no choice but to go. As it was stated earlier, it is then up to the hospitals Psych ER to determine if the patient needs to be admitted or released.

TheRealCannibal

Starting a MySpace page in April 2010 is grounds in itself for psychiatric evaluation.

chuzzlewit

all i know is that i've been through having someone committed and it's INCREDIBLY difficult to get ems or police to take them in, it took days and shit had to get RiLLy kRaZY before they would detain them. so the authorities don't treat this lightly at all.

Petey

Someone made the call to call 911 and request EMS. The school personal? Then EMS made the call that she might need professional psychiatric help, but they would only bring her to the hospital, and to the psych ward. Its a psychiatrist at the hospital that would make the call to hold her.