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Stab vic rips caseworker, Bill’s ‘bulls--t well wishes’
The translator who was stabbed within inches of her life during an ACS house call is claiming the social worker she accompanied repeatedly escalated the situation and provoked the family.
Translator Anna Yuen said Friday the city Administration for Children’s Services worker exercised poor judgment several times during their Nov. 8 visit to the Sunset Park home of Feng Quanyi, the grandfather who allegedly stabbed her.
And she and her lawyer, Michael Dreishpool, said they are now considering suing both the city and Accurate Communication Inc., a company that places translators with ACS.
“If no one steps up, we’re going to take the proper legal measures and make sure they do what the law says they’re obligated to do,” Dreishpool said.
Yuen singled out City Hall, too, slamming Mayor de Blasio’s staff for offering “bulls---t well wishes” without offering any material help while she languished in the hospital.
For the first time since emerging from NYU Langone Hospital Brooklyn, Yuen detailed to the Daily News both the Nov. 8 stabbing incident and a visit she made to the same apartment three days earlier.
During that visit, she and the social worker talked to two grandchildren and their grandparents.
“The two grandchildren said separately, ‘My grandfather hits me with a shoe on my behind,’” she recalled. “The grandmother who heard it from outside the door said, ‘Do not say anything.’ ”
Three days later, when they returned, the social worked pressed the children’s mother — who, according to Yuen, works long hours every night — on what she does for a living. The mother refused to answer.
The social worker then told the mother ACS would provide her with bunk beds and closets for their home, Yuen recalled. When the mother refused — arguing it would hurt a pending housing application — the two argued.
“I don’t care what you want. Your house is a hoarder’s house,” Yuen recalled the social worker saying. “The mother stood up and said, ‘Get out of my house now.’ ”
It was then that Quanyi emerged from a darkened room and began pointing and screaming in a MandarinCantonese pidgin at Yuen.
“I told the social worker, let’s go. I was so frightened, I dropped my work binder. I didn’t even pick it up,” she said. “I just wanted to leave.”
But instead of doing so immediately, the social worker, whose name Yuen declined to provide, called 911.
“She called 911 in front of the mother and inside the house. She should have done it outside,” Yuen said. “That’s when the mother really flipped and became like a savage beast.”
She blocked the staircase to the exit and as the social worker and Yuen struggled to get by, the grandfather lunged at her, Yuen said, landing what she thought at the time was a punch to her back.
Once outside, she saw the blood and realized it was much worse. “It was all blood,” she said. A City Hall spokesman declined to comment. Accurate Communication did not return calls.
An ACS spokeswoman would not comment, citing pending litigation.