Arrested NUMC Aide Returns to Work [POLL]

Three weeks after he for allegedly assaulting a 6-year-old boy while working at (NUMC), Azoumana Ouattara has posted bail and returned to work, according to a report from CBS New York.

"[Ouattara] has been assigned to non-patient duties pending the criminal investigation," Shelley Lotenberg, a spokeswoman for NUMC, said.

According to police, on Oct. 29, Third Precinct officers responded to a disturbance at NUMC that was between Ouattara, 45, of Freeport, and a 6-year-old boy. After police investigated, it was determined that Ouattara allegedly put his hands on the child while he was caring for the boy, which caused lacerations to the neck.

Detectives say Ouattara became angry after the boy directed profanity towards him.

Ken Mollins, the attorney for the 6-year-old involved in the incident, recently spoke to CBS 2 about the decision to allow Ouattara back to work:

I believe it’s an inexplicable decision to place an individual, who the police have probable cause to believe strangled a patient, back in the patient venue.

Ouattara was charged with second-degree assault, strangulation and endangering the welfare of a child.