New York’s broken mental health system pressures doctors to release severely psychotic patients — and likely played a direct role in the horrific attack on a tourist and her baby this week in Macy’s Herald Square, insiders and other critics told The Post Saturday.
The suspect — an apparently deranged woman who was allowed to leave a Manhattan psychiatric facility without supervision — traveled alone to the famed department store, bought a kitchen knife and allegedly stabbed an unsuspecting mother as she changed her infant in a bathroom, authorities said.
Kerri Aherne insisted to The Post that “voices” in her head ordered her to “kill.”
“Somebody determined that this woman wasn’t a danger to herself or others – this is the whole problem!” said a doctor who works in New York-based mental hospitals…