Illegal migrant with 65 ARRESTS is on the loose again after assaulting NYC nurses: 'These laws need to stop!'

A New York nurse who was battered by a patient has slammed the city's 'soft on crime' policies after learning that the suspect is an illegal migrant who has 65 arrests to his name.

Edward Johnson, 57, was granted supervised release two days after assaulting nurse Chelsea Mora, 32, in a series of attacks on female medical staff dating back to 2019.

She was left with bleeding in her eye and PTSD after he launched himself at her in January while she was taking his blood pressure at Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx.

And a colleague at nearby St Barnabas Hospital has been attacked twice by the thug who has now absconded from his supervisors.

'It was pretty disheartening to find out that he was illegally here in this country and that he's been given so many chances,' Mora told Fox.

Johnson has 23 arrests on charges that include gun possession, and another 42 arrests that have been sealed since he arrived in the US

Nurse Chelsea Mora, 32, said 'soft-on-crime laws that are being implemented aren't helping us'

She was left with a corneal hematoma and PTSD after being attacked by Johnson while treating him at the Jacobi Hospital in January

'It seems to be a severe problem in New York City now,' she added.

'I think these soft-on-crime laws that are being implemented aren't helping us, like citizens of New York, and aren't helping healthcare staff in dealing with these types of criminals.'

Johnson arrived from the Caribbean a decade ago before moving to New York and starting his assault on the city's health workers.

He has 23 arrests on charges that include gun possession, and another 42 arrests that have been sealed since he arrived in the US.

In December 2019 he was arrested after punching a 45-year-old female doctor in the mouth and a 61-year-old female nurse in the chest at Albert Einstein Hospital in Morris Park.

And in July 2022 he carried out his first attack on Colleen Leahy, an emergency room doctor at St. Barnabas.

She had only been in the job for two months when he punched her in the eye, just hours after assaulting another female nurse at the hospital.

He spent eight months in jail for the attack on Leahy, 28, but was back in September last year to kick her in the head while she and a male co-worker tried to give him an injection.

Mora shared video of another routine attack on staff at nearby St Barnabas Hospital  

'We're part of the society, we give back to the society. We want to have a little bit more protection,' she said

More than 180,000 migrants have arrived in New York since spring of 2022 costing the city billions of dollars in social welfare provision  

But tensions have spiked in the wake of a series of high-profile crimes including the notorious gang attack on two NYPD officers by Venezuelan migrants in Times Square last month 

She has lost 20 pounds through stress since the second attack and has been left wondering when he will return for a third.

'I'm afraid my daughter will become the next Laken Riley,' Leahy's mother Eileen told the New York Post.

'I'm afraid every day at work, every day,' Leahy added.

'It's infuriating that he keeps doing this to healthcare workers, especially women, and then is let go. 'They had him in custody multiple times, so why is he being let go to attack other people, other healthcare workers?'

New York Mayor Eric Adams has admitted he wants reform of the city's sanctuary status which forbids his officials from asking questions about a person's immigration status, or revealing it to federal authorities.

'We need to modify the sanctuary city law that if you commit a felony or violent act we should be able to turn you over to ICE and have you deported,' he told a community meeting last month.

He made his remarks after January's brutal Times Square attack on two cops that saw most of the Venezuelan suspects freed on bail within hours of their arrests.

A warrant has been issued for Johnson's arrest and prosecutors are preparing to put a case before a grand jury.

Mora said her colleagues are routinely exposed to violence and shared shocking footage of a different patient attacking doctors, nurses and police officers a couple of months ago at another New York City hospital.

More than 180,000 migrants have arrived in the city in the last 18 months and Mora said some of the violence 'definitely should be blamed on the border crisis'.

But she claimed hospital managers discourage staff from reporting attacks to a judicial system that offers little protection to victims.

'We need laws to keep these people in prison and help us do our job more efficiently,' she said.

'When we actually do press charges and things go up to the court level charges are dropped, and these criminals are back on the street.

'We wake up every morning or night, we work 12 hours to 16-hour shifts to help people help the most vulnerable in our society, help our sick patients in underserved communities, and we get abused,' Mora said

'They may serve one or two months in jail, and then they're back out doing the same thing.

'We wake up every morning or night, we work 12 hours to 16-hour shifts to help people help the most vulnerable in our society, help our sick patients in underserved communities, and we get abused.

'This one particular gentleman has over 20 open cases, and he's out on the streets abusing and assaulting people.

'We're part of the society, we give back to the society. We want to have a little bit more protection.'