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EMT charged with abandoning child at Bronx hospital after forging nurse’s signature

By Jothan Sederstrom
The Daily News

NEW YORK — An impatient medic was arrested Friday for abandoning a 5-year-old boy at a Bronx hospital on New Year’s Eve because he didn’t want to wait for the paperwork, officials said.

Paul Casson, 28, of the Bronx, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child when he forged a nurse’s signature because he didn’t want to stick around at Lincoln Hospital, a spokeswoman for the Department of Investigation said.

The boy, whose name is being withheld, was rushed to the Bronx hospital by Casson after a Dec. 31 motor vehicle accident left him with nonlife threatening injuries.

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