Hassan Razzaq, 19, who was arrested in July this year on charges of alleged stabbing to death of his “abusive” father in New York, was treated in a psychiatric ward at Weill Cornell’s Payne Whitney Clinic in Manhattan last month as the teenager was “scarred by the ordeal”, news reports said.
New York Post reported Oct. 31 that the Brooklyn teen, temporarily released from Rikers Island on $1 million bond two months ago was treated at the clinic for the trauma of the killing and the years of violent physical and sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his father Mohammed Razzaq, defense attorney Michael Cibella was quoted as saying outside the Brooklyn Supreme Court, by the paper.
Razzaq “voluntarily” checked himself to the ward. “They obviously see a need to continue treatment for the years of abuse he sustained,” the lawyer was quoted as saying.
The college student is was charged with plunging a knife into dad Mohammad’s throat after the latter returned from Pakistan and took out his rage over a failed business deal on Hassan and his 15-year-old sister, beating them in the hours before his death.
The second-degree murder, when it was first reported evoked sympathy from neighbors, less for the victim than for the assailant, his son, because many within earshot of neighboring houses felt they believed that the son and the family suffered abuses at the hands of Mohammad. “The screams were unbelievable every day. Should he be charged with murder? No. He needs help. Every child in the house needs help,” a neighbor was quoted as saying earlier.
One neighbor, perturbed by daily screams and sounds of bearings, went to the Hassan household and told the father that the next time he beats his children and his wife he would go in and beat him.
This was before the alleged stabbing of the father by his son.
Robert Micari said he would be willing to go to the grand jury and testify about the abuse he’d seen in the family to try to help the son get a lesser charge.
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