On February 22, 1988, Donald Rattray, a voluntary mental patient at Bronx Psychiatric Center with a history of self-mutilative and assaultive behavior, eloped from the facility for the fifth time in a six month period. Rattray, who had been assigned the task of mopping a portion of the third floor of Ward 8, entered a utility closet, which had been left unlocked by hospital staff, tied several bed sheets together, then lowered himself to the ground through an ungated window...
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