NYC woman, 46, who is deaf, autistic and mute lived on city’s subways for THREE WEEKS

A New York City woman who is deaf, mute and autistic resurfaced after having gone missing for three weeks, surviving the whole time by living on the subways. 

Samantha Primus, 46, had disappeared after she was released from a hospital in Queens on Christmas Eve, only to be found Saturday.

Her sister, Ghislaine Primus, and two others were able to find Samantha in Lower Manhattan after hearing that she’d been riding the 1 train.

Ghislaine said that ‘my heart fell’ when she finally found her sister. 

Samantha Primus (pictured right), 46, had disappeared after she was released from a hospital in Queens on Christmas Eve, only to be found Saturday. Her sister, Ghislaine Primus (pictured left), and two others were able to find Samantha in Lower Manhattan after hearing that she’d been riding the 1 train

Once they’d gotten Samantha back, they discovered that she’d lost 10 pounds, was dehydrated and her feet were swollen from only wearing slippers and socks, according to Ghislaine. 

‘She survived jumping from train to train, looking and hoping that she was going to get home. And we found her,’ she added.

Ghislaine and Samantha’s other sister, Sophia Primus, was also there to greet her.

Samantha Primus has been sent to a Brooklyn hospital for treatment after she’d been located, according to her sisters. 

She had been lost ever since she left her other sister Joanna Peck’s house in Elmont on Long Island on December 23 in an attempt to get back to her mother’s home in Brooklyn.

She was found by a Queens resident in the freezing cold lying on the ground and the bystander called for EMS crews. 

Primus was taken for treatment at Queens Hospital Center, but just hours later, with the temperatures in the single digits, she was allowed to leave at 2 a.m. She was merely given a list of homeless shelters. 

Samantha Primus has been sent to a Brooklyn hospital for treatment after she’d been located, according to her sisters 

Primus had been lost ever since she left her other sister Joanna Peck’s house in Elmont on Long Island on December 23 in an attempt to get back to her mother’s home in Brooklyn

The Primus family has plans to sue Queens Hospital Center for what they see as negligent treatment and are now refusing to provide any information about what happened. 

‘If they had done their duty, my sister would not have gone through these horrendous three weeks in the cold. An apology will never be enough. We wonder what hearts and heads work at this hospital,’ Sophia Primus said.

The family has hired infamous New York City lawyer Sanford Rubenstein to represent them. 

‘If the Nassau County police report is accurate, then clearly this hospital was not only negligent but heartless, and appropriate legal action will be instituted,’ the family’s lawyer, Rubenstein said. ‘The city has to be held accountable for the actions of those who work for them in their hospitals.’

New York City Health & Hospital – the owners of the Queens facility – cited HIPAA regulations and didn’t provide any details or an apology.

‘[Samantha] survived jumping from train to train, looking and hoping that she was going to get home. And we found her,’ her sister Ghislaine Primussaid

The family has hired infamous New York City lawyer Sanford Rubenstein to represent them 

‘We see patients who need various levels of care in all our emergency department and afford them the confidentiality of treatment as the law provides,’ they told the New York Post.

The family spent three weeks until they were able to find them with the help of tipsters, with no police officers having seen Samantha.