Posted on February 2, 2022 by Shelly Nortz in New York Daily News New York Daily News, By Shelly Nortz In the 1980s, I was attacked by a homeless woman suffering from mental illness. She knocked me to the ground and injured my windpipe. She was in her 60s and had come to the upstate shelter where I worked after being kicked out of her home. A day before this incident, she had asked me to help her get admitted to the psychiatric unit at our local hospital.
