Mother of Yankel Rosenbaum said: Money was not the issue.

Mother of Yankel Rosenbaum said: Money was not the issue. She said the justice her family won when the city admitted fault in her son’s death was a bittersweet victory.
Fay Rosenbaum, 71, said she was bracing for a long court battle to prove that a city hospital botched her son’s emergency room care when he was brought in with stab wounds suffered in the 1991 Crown Heights riot. But on Friday, the city not only admitted it “played a role” in the 29-year-old Australian’s death, but it also offered $1.25 million to settle the case. “I kept saying it and saying it,” said the gray-haired grandmother outside Brooklyn Civil Court. “They could have offered $100 million and no admission [of guilt], and they would have been on trial today. It was either that, or bring Yankel back. That, they weren’t going to do.” The staff at Kings County Hospital made the fatal mistake of missing one of his stab wounds. “Money does not make up having to live with yourself,” Fay Rosenbaum said. “You have to feel you’ve done everything you believe in. Just being handed some money isn’t the thing.”