GUILTY NY - Nixzmary Brown, 7, beaten to death in Brooklyn, 11 Jan 2006
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Little Nixzmary Brown couldn't run from her captors.
Her ankles were shackled to a chair inside her Brooklyn apartment, where she had been fatally beaten.
Police discovered the 7-year-old girl Wednesday, her body reportedly weighing only 36 pounds.
A law enforcement official said there was evidence the girl had been held captive in a room where she was bound by her ankles to a chair.
"It appeared she had been singled out from the other children for abuse," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation had not been completed and nobody had been charged.
ACS caseworkers already were investigating an allegation of abuse against the girl reported on Dec. 1, 2005. Another allegation from earlier last year proved unfounded, the agency said, adding that both investigations involved visits to the home.
Mattingly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city was reviewing how it investigates claims of child abuse.
"Overall, ACS does a very good job, but any tragedy ... is one too many," the mayor said. "I have enormous confidence in Mattingly, and he'll see what we can do to tighten up our procedures, to do investigations faster."
Last month, ACS released reports criticizing its intervention in two households before children there ended up dead.
Both cases involved children who had been removed from their homes following allegations of abuse but were allowed to return: A 16-month-old boy drowned in a bathtub while his mother listened to CDs in another room, and a 7-year-old girl died after her father kneed her in the stomach and beat her with a belt over two days, authorities said.
The reports found that a supervisor may have falsified records about the boy. Caseworkers also failed to properly respond to a doctor's suspicions that the girl was being abused, the reports said.
http://www.silive.com/newsflash/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-15/113705365332880.xml&storylist=simetro
Her ankles were shackled to a chair inside her Brooklyn apartment, where she had been fatally beaten.
Police discovered the 7-year-old girl Wednesday, her body reportedly weighing only 36 pounds.
A law enforcement official said there was evidence the girl had been held captive in a room where she was bound by her ankles to a chair.
"It appeared she had been singled out from the other children for abuse," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation had not been completed and nobody had been charged.
ACS caseworkers already were investigating an allegation of abuse against the girl reported on Dec. 1, 2005. Another allegation from earlier last year proved unfounded, the agency said, adding that both investigations involved visits to the home.
Mattingly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city was reviewing how it investigates claims of child abuse.
"Overall, ACS does a very good job, but any tragedy ... is one too many," the mayor said. "I have enormous confidence in Mattingly, and he'll see what we can do to tighten up our procedures, to do investigations faster."
Last month, ACS released reports criticizing its intervention in two households before children there ended up dead.
Both cases involved children who had been removed from their homes following allegations of abuse but were allowed to return: A 16-month-old boy drowned in a bathtub while his mother listened to CDs in another room, and a 7-year-old girl died after her father kneed her in the stomach and beat her with a belt over two days, authorities said.
The reports found that a supervisor may have falsified records about the boy. Caseworkers also failed to properly respond to a doctor's suspicions that the girl was being abused, the reports said.
http://www.silive.com/newsflash/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-15/113705365332880.xml&storylist=simetro
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How can this happen? The least provocation should cause more investigation not less. We are not doing enough to protect the children in this country. Is it certain laws or is it civil servant jobs that dictate not rocking the boat? Lots of questions...no answers.
Actually, according to the law, some of the people who failed to protect her, can be held legally responsible. No excuse in the world, it sounds like they were afraid of this monster, but, instead of going to the police and getting a warrant, they turned a blind eye.concernedperson said:
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Here's a new article, the man who named Nixzmary and gave his last name to her. And then went on to father two step siblings of hers, with her mother.
I'm really disturbed by the tone of this article - like, he's some guy who passed in and out of her life, a good guy, now he's outraged.
Two of his kids were in that house and he apparently "drifted apart" from the mother. HELLO. They're his children. Not Nixzmary, but the next two.
Where's the child support? Where's the marriage for God's sake. Its disheartening when an article like this comes out, kind of wistful. Gag me. This nice guy is all in an outrage. . . bla bla bla.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/382708p-324928c.html
I'm really disturbed by the tone of this article - like, he's some guy who passed in and out of her life, a good guy, now he's outraged.
Two of his kids were in that house and he apparently "drifted apart" from the mother. HELLO. They're his children. Not Nixzmary, but the next two.
Where's the child support? Where's the marriage for God's sake. Its disheartening when an article like this comes out, kind of wistful. Gag me. This nice guy is all in an outrage. . . bla bla bla.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/382708p-324928c.html
How come he hears about her death on tv, shows how little contact he had? To defend this monsterous mom, saying she was a good mom, is a cover-up for his own lack of involvement or interest in this girl.KatherineQ said:
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The guy actually had no legal ties to Nixzmary and no obligations. And the children he created with her mother, I believe would actually be her half-siblings. He had an obligation to those children, but he evidently wasn't fullfilling those. Just him as a father of those kids- allowing them to be exposed as witnesses to the abuse. Even though they don't think those children were abused, they had to watch it. You know those kids had to be petrified. Because if they would know that if he did it to Nixzmary, then if he got mad at them, he would do it to them. Watching the torture of another child, that has to seriously warp your childhood.KatherineQ said:
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week before she died a violent death at the hands of her sadistic stepfather, a battered and forlorn Nixzmary Brown confided, "I wish my mommy and daddy were dead."
Perry Robinson will never forget those words or any of the other unsettling encounters he had with the solitary, sad-faced 7-year-old in the park across from her family's apartment in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.
The retired paralegal used to see Nixzmary in Tompkins Park while he played with his nieces and nephews and he "was not surprised" when her lifeless, battered body was found naked on the floor of the apartment early this week.
But still Robinson, 49, was shocked at police accounts of the torture the little girl had been subjected to at charges that her stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, regularly tied her to a chair, beat her with his hands and a belt, sexually assaulted her, and forced her to eat cat food and use a kitty litter box, while her mother, Nixzaliz Santiago, did nothing to help her.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/60382.htm
VICIOUS ABUSE ON ALL HIS STEPKIDS
Savage child-killer Cesar Rodriguez also took out his aggression on the other kids with whom he lived, police sources said yesterday.
In addition to brutalizing tragic 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown, Rodriguez, 27, also took a belt and his fists to the three other stepchildren in his crowded home Javier, 9, Edward Jr., 5, and Selena, 4.
He would beat them for such transgressions as taking food from the refrigerator, playing on his computer and watching television, the kids told investigators.
Rodriguez allegedly killed Brown in a fit of rage over a cup of yogurt, which the emaciated child swiped from the refrigerator of their Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment against his wishes.
But in a sick twist, the sadist was selective in his abuse and apparently never laid a hand on the two kids he fathered with Nixzaliz Santiago Cesar, age 6 months, and Augustine, age 18 months a source said.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/60392.htm
Supervisor: How we botched case
The Administration for Children's Services blew critical chances to save Nixzmary Brown's life - because it was so busy investigating the death of a little boy just a month earlier, a disgraced city supervisor told the Daily News.
"One of the big problems was I couldn't cover all the cases in my area," said Roger Moore, who oversaw the ACS cases of Nixzmary and Dahquay Gillians, the 16-month-old boy who drowned in a bathtub in November.
"When we get fatalities, there's all kinds of pressure on the unit to find an explanation," Moore told The News last night. "We were . . . dealing with all the fallout from [Dahquay's] case. The Nixzmary Brown case wasn't an issue."
Moore's admission came as the head of ACS acknowledged that caseworkers and supervisors in Brooklyn didn't do enough to follow up on persistent reports that 7-year-old Nixzmary was being beaten, starved and molested.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/382668p-324871c.html
Worker seeks aid for girl's funeral
The woman who did the most to try to save Nixzmary Brown's life now wants to make sure the 7-year-old gets a decent funeral.
Margarita Cotto, the social worker at Public School 256 in Brooklyn, broke her silence last night to ask New Yorkers to help the slain second-grader's family with expenses.
"Nixzmary needs a burial. She needs to rest and the family is going to need assistance," Cotto said outside her Prospect Heights home.
Hospital worker Delia Soto is raising funds for the funeral, starting with $1,000 she collected for the burial of 6-year-old child abuse victim Elisa Izquierdo in 1995 that was never used.
"This brings all the bad memories back," said Soto, standing at a shrine in front of the Greene Ave. apartment where Nixzmary was killed Wednesday.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/382701p-324864c.html
Grandmas share bond of pain & loss
United by tragedy, grandmothers of Elisa Izquierdo and Nixzmary Brown spoke yesterday - sharing grief over the deaths of two little girls and anger that after a decade of reform, the system is still failing the most helpless.
Maria Gonzalez, 53, had just finished the nightmarish chore of identifying her 7-year-old granddaughter, her eyes blackened, from a morgue photo.
Matilda Collazo, 79, was sitting in her Brooklyn kitchen, recalling how Elisa, beaten to death a decade ago, still returns to her in dreams.
For five minutes, these two matriarchs talked by phone, exploring common ground: where they were born in Puerto Rico, and how their daughters had fallen for wicked men.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/382672p-324886c.html
Perry Robinson will never forget those words or any of the other unsettling encounters he had with the solitary, sad-faced 7-year-old in the park across from her family's apartment in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.
The retired paralegal used to see Nixzmary in Tompkins Park while he played with his nieces and nephews and he "was not surprised" when her lifeless, battered body was found naked on the floor of the apartment early this week.
But still Robinson, 49, was shocked at police accounts of the torture the little girl had been subjected to at charges that her stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, regularly tied her to a chair, beat her with his hands and a belt, sexually assaulted her, and forced her to eat cat food and use a kitty litter box, while her mother, Nixzaliz Santiago, did nothing to help her.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/60382.htm
VICIOUS ABUSE ON ALL HIS STEPKIDS
Savage child-killer Cesar Rodriguez also took out his aggression on the other kids with whom he lived, police sources said yesterday.
In addition to brutalizing tragic 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown, Rodriguez, 27, also took a belt and his fists to the three other stepchildren in his crowded home Javier, 9, Edward Jr., 5, and Selena, 4.
He would beat them for such transgressions as taking food from the refrigerator, playing on his computer and watching television, the kids told investigators.
Rodriguez allegedly killed Brown in a fit of rage over a cup of yogurt, which the emaciated child swiped from the refrigerator of their Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment against his wishes.
But in a sick twist, the sadist was selective in his abuse and apparently never laid a hand on the two kids he fathered with Nixzaliz Santiago Cesar, age 6 months, and Augustine, age 18 months a source said.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/60392.htm
Supervisor: How we botched case
The Administration for Children's Services blew critical chances to save Nixzmary Brown's life - because it was so busy investigating the death of a little boy just a month earlier, a disgraced city supervisor told the Daily News.
"One of the big problems was I couldn't cover all the cases in my area," said Roger Moore, who oversaw the ACS cases of Nixzmary and Dahquay Gillians, the 16-month-old boy who drowned in a bathtub in November.
"When we get fatalities, there's all kinds of pressure on the unit to find an explanation," Moore told The News last night. "We were . . . dealing with all the fallout from [Dahquay's] case. The Nixzmary Brown case wasn't an issue."
Moore's admission came as the head of ACS acknowledged that caseworkers and supervisors in Brooklyn didn't do enough to follow up on persistent reports that 7-year-old Nixzmary was being beaten, starved and molested.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/382668p-324871c.html
Worker seeks aid for girl's funeral
The woman who did the most to try to save Nixzmary Brown's life now wants to make sure the 7-year-old gets a decent funeral.
Margarita Cotto, the social worker at Public School 256 in Brooklyn, broke her silence last night to ask New Yorkers to help the slain second-grader's family with expenses.
"Nixzmary needs a burial. She needs to rest and the family is going to need assistance," Cotto said outside her Prospect Heights home.
Hospital worker Delia Soto is raising funds for the funeral, starting with $1,000 she collected for the burial of 6-year-old child abuse victim Elisa Izquierdo in 1995 that was never used.
"This brings all the bad memories back," said Soto, standing at a shrine in front of the Greene Ave. apartment where Nixzmary was killed Wednesday.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/382701p-324864c.html
Grandmas share bond of pain & loss
United by tragedy, grandmothers of Elisa Izquierdo and Nixzmary Brown spoke yesterday - sharing grief over the deaths of two little girls and anger that after a decade of reform, the system is still failing the most helpless.
Maria Gonzalez, 53, had just finished the nightmarish chore of identifying her 7-year-old granddaughter, her eyes blackened, from a morgue photo.
Matilda Collazo, 79, was sitting in her Brooklyn kitchen, recalling how Elisa, beaten to death a decade ago, still returns to her in dreams.
For five minutes, these two matriarchs talked by phone, exploring common ground: where they were born in Puerto Rico, and how their daughters had fallen for wicked men.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/382672p-324886c.html
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Through little Nixzmary's death, she was probably able to salvage her sibling's lives. Or anyway, the ones that weren't Cesar's children, who were apparently quite well cared for.
And through her death hopefully others completely unrelated to her will be helped - grandmothers like this will stop sitting on their thumbs and pull their heads out and not sit idly by while their stupid daughters allow the grandchildren to be tortured to death.
And through her death hopefully others completely unrelated to her will be helped - grandmothers like this will stop sitting on their thumbs and pull their heads out and not sit idly by while their stupid daughters allow the grandchildren to be tortured to death.
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The repeated lapses and glaring misjudgments that sealed 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown's fate are exposed in excruciating detail in the pages of the tortured girl's child-welfare case file, obtained by the Daily News.
The writings by investigators at the Administration for Children's Services show that city workers ignored or discounted explicit warnings that the second-grader was being brutally beaten by her stepfather.
The case file also contradicts statements by police and city officials who said cops never interviewed Nixzmary or her five siblings after a social worker called a hotline Dec. 1 to report that she had a black eye and signs of sexual abuse.
Most disturbing are investigation notes that reveal Nixzmary's 5-year-old sister, Selena, told a ACS worker on Dec. 1 that their stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, 27, caused a 2-inch cut over Nixzmary's right eye.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/382926p-325100c.html
The twisted reasons why adults single out one poor child
By all accounts, 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown lived a life of hell - while her five siblings led comparatively normal lives.
Yet even though it seems illogical that her parents would single out one child for abuse, experts said that is not unusual.
Victims such as Nixzmary and Elisa may have special needs, or require extra energy and attention that their parents cannot provide, experts say. Elisa's mom believed she was possessed by the devil; Nixzmary's stepdad, Cesar Rodriguez, who was charged with second-degree murder in her death, told police that the little girl was "wild," pulling her siblings' hair, throwing food on the floor - and having the nerve to eat her parents' yogurt.
"There is a level of, if you will, sickness because people can't problem-solve and weren't exposed to any other way," said Fran Silverman, director of social work at Beth Israel Medical Center. "Their sense of proportion of what the infraction is and what the punishment is is completely out of whack."
Children also may be selected because of their gender.
Other times they're seen as weak, easy targets - or as embodying qualities the abuser despises in himself or in others, said Melissa Greene, a clinical psychologist at the Westchester County division of New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Nadine's mother told investigators that her daughter resembled the girl's estranged father.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/382922p-325088c.html
The writings by investigators at the Administration for Children's Services show that city workers ignored or discounted explicit warnings that the second-grader was being brutally beaten by her stepfather.
The case file also contradicts statements by police and city officials who said cops never interviewed Nixzmary or her five siblings after a social worker called a hotline Dec. 1 to report that she had a black eye and signs of sexual abuse.
Most disturbing are investigation notes that reveal Nixzmary's 5-year-old sister, Selena, told a ACS worker on Dec. 1 that their stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, 27, caused a 2-inch cut over Nixzmary's right eye.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/382926p-325100c.html
The twisted reasons why adults single out one poor child
By all accounts, 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown lived a life of hell - while her five siblings led comparatively normal lives.
Yet even though it seems illogical that her parents would single out one child for abuse, experts said that is not unusual.
Victims such as Nixzmary and Elisa may have special needs, or require extra energy and attention that their parents cannot provide, experts say. Elisa's mom believed she was possessed by the devil; Nixzmary's stepdad, Cesar Rodriguez, who was charged with second-degree murder in her death, told police that the little girl was "wild," pulling her siblings' hair, throwing food on the floor - and having the nerve to eat her parents' yogurt.
"There is a level of, if you will, sickness because people can't problem-solve and weren't exposed to any other way," said Fran Silverman, director of social work at Beth Israel Medical Center. "Their sense of proportion of what the infraction is and what the punishment is is completely out of whack."
Children also may be selected because of their gender.
Other times they're seen as weak, easy targets - or as embodying qualities the abuser despises in himself or in others, said Melissa Greene, a clinical psychologist at the Westchester County division of New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Nadine's mother told investigators that her daughter resembled the girl's estranged father.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/382922p-325088c.html
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Nixzmary Brown lay on the bedroom floor in her pajamas, not breathing, not moving, her sweet face battered beyond recognition.
Her mother stood there stone-faced - spouting ludicrous lies about how the 7-year-old had drowned or beaten herself black and blue.
That was the ghastly scene that greeted a neighbor who was summoned to the little girl's Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, apartment early last Wednesday.
The 48-year-old woman, a home care attendant, sobbed as she told the Daily News about the knock on her third-floor door and the horror that followed.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/382920p-325085c.html
PARENTS SLEPT IN THIS COMFY NOOK AS THEIR TORTURED GIRL LAY IN AGONY
This is the first look into the house of horrors where little Nixzmary Brown was found beaten to death, allegedly at the hands of her monster stepfather.
Cesar Rodriguez and wife Nixzaliz Santiago, both 27, slept soundly together each night in this comfy front room as their daughter often sat tightly bound to a beat-up school chair tied to a radiator in a bedroom at the back of the house.
No expense was spared on flashy stereo equipment, perfumes and soft toys for the parents in this Bed-Stuy apartment, even while Nixzmary was forced to eat cat food and use a litter box as a bathroom.
Unbelievably, one of Santiago's most cherished possessions is a certificate she displayed on top of the stereo a certificate she earned after completing a child-care course in Connecticut while she was pregnant with Nixzmary.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/60468.htm
Her mother stood there stone-faced - spouting ludicrous lies about how the 7-year-old had drowned or beaten herself black and blue.
That was the ghastly scene that greeted a neighbor who was summoned to the little girl's Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, apartment early last Wednesday.
The 48-year-old woman, a home care attendant, sobbed as she told the Daily News about the knock on her third-floor door and the horror that followed.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/382920p-325085c.html
PARENTS SLEPT IN THIS COMFY NOOK AS THEIR TORTURED GIRL LAY IN AGONY
This is the first look into the house of horrors where little Nixzmary Brown was found beaten to death, allegedly at the hands of her monster stepfather.
Cesar Rodriguez and wife Nixzaliz Santiago, both 27, slept soundly together each night in this comfy front room as their daughter often sat tightly bound to a beat-up school chair tied to a radiator in a bedroom at the back of the house.
No expense was spared on flashy stereo equipment, perfumes and soft toys for the parents in this Bed-Stuy apartment, even while Nixzmary was forced to eat cat food and use a litter box as a bathroom.
Unbelievably, one of Santiago's most cherished possessions is a certificate she displayed on top of the stereo a certificate she earned after completing a child-care course in Connecticut while she was pregnant with Nixzmary.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/60468.htm
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This is monster dad Cesar Rodriguez after messing with bullies his own size.
The tough guy at least when it came to his 7-year-old stepdaughter, Nixzmary Brown got his face rearranged in a boozy brawl at a house party in Temple, Texas, four years ago.
The punk parent was outmatched in the punch-up by three to four burly men.
But the beat-down didn't seem to chasten Santiago he soon found an easier punching bag in the form of a girlfriend who was bold enough to tease him about the shiner he acquired in the fight.
A drunken Rodriguez beat the woman. When she called cops, he was tossed in jail.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/60435.htm
The tough guy at least when it came to his 7-year-old stepdaughter, Nixzmary Brown got his face rearranged in a boozy brawl at a house party in Temple, Texas, four years ago.
The punk parent was outmatched in the punch-up by three to four burly men.
But the beat-down didn't seem to chasten Santiago he soon found an easier punching bag in the form of a girlfriend who was bold enough to tease him about the shiner he acquired in the fight.
A drunken Rodriguez beat the woman. When she called cops, he was tossed in jail.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/60435.htm
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In life, Nixzmary Brown was ignored, neglected and abused.
But yesterday, no expense was spared in the sad task of choosing the clothes in which to bury the 7-year-old.
"Oh, my God, she's going to look like an angel," her grief-stricken aunt Caridad Ramos said upon finding a size-8 gown for the tragic child.
Ramos' eyes watered after running her hand over the white satin garment which came with ruffled sleeves, a layered skirt and a small bow that the girl will wear at her funeral Wednesday.
Nixzmary's grandmother, Maria Gonzalez, silently watched as community activist Awilda Cordero held the dress up to the light and then paid the $65 price at the Kid Stop, on Delancey Street.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/60454.htm
But yesterday, no expense was spared in the sad task of choosing the clothes in which to bury the 7-year-old.
"Oh, my God, she's going to look like an angel," her grief-stricken aunt Caridad Ramos said upon finding a size-8 gown for the tragic child.
Ramos' eyes watered after running her hand over the white satin garment which came with ruffled sleeves, a layered skirt and a small bow that the girl will wear at her funeral Wednesday.
Nixzmary's grandmother, Maria Gonzalez, silently watched as community activist Awilda Cordero held the dress up to the light and then paid the $65 price at the Kid Stop, on Delancey Street.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/60454.htm
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This little girl lived a horrid life that most people would have a fit about if they heard of it happening to an animal. But she wasn't an animal, she was a little girl. A little girl who not only lived in pain and fear, but evidently who knew what was going to happen to her.
I have seen complaints that her extended family should have done something. I have seen complaints that her neighbors should have called in complaints.
But now the truth is coming out. Complaints were made, by the school if not the neighbors. Social workers did investigate, but when the parent and stepparent denied it, they more or less dropped it. The witness statements from the school, the statements from the children, and the evidence provided weren't enough for them to remove the child, in their opinion. Even though the parents statements did not match the evidence or the witness statements.
So why would a neighbor not complain? Well, when you live in close quarters, you try to get along with your neighbors, at least on the surface. If they made a complaint, and the parents figured out who complained, that would disturb their peace. But it might have saved the child you will say. Yes, it might have saved the child, if there was a possibility that DHS might act on the complaint. But the fact is that often DHS doesn't act on the complaints. From what I am seeing, DHS nor NYPD did not seek out any additional witnesses. They didn't question why the evidence didn't match the statements. Had they made the effort, it is possible that one of the neighbors would have spoken out. Instead it was treated, just as the neighbors expected it would be. It was "unsubstantiated". In many areas it is expected that no one cares, and no one will help. And that is why the neighbors didn't make complaints.
I complain about the mother who stood by and let her daughter be beat to death. She was the mother, the one charged with caring for and protecting her children. She is going to court and facing charges along with the murderer. But there was someone else who was responsible for protecting that child. The school- and they did attempt to get her some help. But also DHS, the ones who are responsible for making sure this child got protection, they let her down. She died. IMO, they should be standing there on trial, right along with the mother.
I have seen complaints that her extended family should have done something. I have seen complaints that her neighbors should have called in complaints.
But now the truth is coming out. Complaints were made, by the school if not the neighbors. Social workers did investigate, but when the parent and stepparent denied it, they more or less dropped it. The witness statements from the school, the statements from the children, and the evidence provided weren't enough for them to remove the child, in their opinion. Even though the parents statements did not match the evidence or the witness statements.
So why would a neighbor not complain? Well, when you live in close quarters, you try to get along with your neighbors, at least on the surface. If they made a complaint, and the parents figured out who complained, that would disturb their peace. But it might have saved the child you will say. Yes, it might have saved the child, if there was a possibility that DHS might act on the complaint. But the fact is that often DHS doesn't act on the complaints. From what I am seeing, DHS nor NYPD did not seek out any additional witnesses. They didn't question why the evidence didn't match the statements. Had they made the effort, it is possible that one of the neighbors would have spoken out. Instead it was treated, just as the neighbors expected it would be. It was "unsubstantiated". In many areas it is expected that no one cares, and no one will help. And that is why the neighbors didn't make complaints.
I complain about the mother who stood by and let her daughter be beat to death. She was the mother, the one charged with caring for and protecting her children. She is going to court and facing charges along with the murderer. But there was someone else who was responsible for protecting that child. The school- and they did attempt to get her some help. But also DHS, the ones who are responsible for making sure this child got protection, they let her down. She died. IMO, they should be standing there on trial, right along with the mother.
in the least, the caseworker should have had this child examined by a Pediatircian or other MD. In Iowa if abuse is reported or teachers etc see bruises- DHS is called. Our office is notified and we see the child- even if they're not our patients within 24 hours. Our workers don't just believe parent's BS- they seek a medical opinion to see if the injuries were accidental or
not. We'd also check for sexual abuse. What were these workers thinking!!!!
not. We'd also check for sexual abuse. What were these workers thinking!!!!
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"Mommy don't leave me! Mommy, don't leave me!"
That was Nixzmary Brown's heartbreaking - and unheeded - last plea as she lay dying from a beating at the hands of her stepfather, her mother, Nixzaliz Santiago, said yesterday in an explosive jailhouse interview.
Speaking for the first time since her daughter's slaying sickened the city last week, Santiago detailed the final horrifying hours of the 7-year-old's tragic life - including how the girl moaned and writhed allegedly after being punished in the bathtub, allegedly by Cesar Rod.riguez, 27.
Santiago said she dressed her little girl in dry pajamas and tried to warm her. After her heartbreaking last words, Nixzmary's neck drooped.
"Her head went limp," her mother said tearfully.
At Rikers, where she is being held on manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges, Santiago said another female inmate threatened her.
"She said, 'I'm going to kick your a-- and I'm going to kill you for what you did to that baby.' I'm afraid for my life in here."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/383111p-325244c.html
'I WAS AFRAID HE'D HIT ME,' SAYS MOM OF HORROR NIGHT 'MISCHIEVOUS' NIXZMARY DIED
Nixzmary Brown's mother yesterday admitted she stood idle as her sadistic husband viciously beat her daughter because she feared for herself and, besides, the child was insolent and sneaky.
"Nixzmary had an attitude," Nixzaliz Santiago, 27, told The Post in a jailhouse interview at Rikers Island.
"She is isolated because she creates mischief in the middle of the night," she said, still speaking of her dead daughter in the present tense.
A whimpering Santiago said she cried to her evil hubby, "Leave her alone!" at about 11 p.m. Tuesday, as cops say the maniacal fiend was launching his merciless attack on the hollow-eyed 7-year-old.
But it was the only intervention she offered.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/61616.htm
PSYCH TEST FOR BEAST DAD
Accused child-abuse fiend Cesar Rodriguez has been moved from Rikers Island to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, authorities said yesterday.
Rodriguez who faces second-degree murder charges for allegedly beating 7-year-old stepdaughter Nixzmary Brown to death last week was transferred to Bellevue's prison-psychiatric ward in Manhattan on Saturday, correction officials said.
Staff at Rikers Island made the referral as a routine precaution given the severity of the charges and the notoriety of the case rather than in response to any specific threat from Rodriguez or other inmates, sources said.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/61613.htm
That was Nixzmary Brown's heartbreaking - and unheeded - last plea as she lay dying from a beating at the hands of her stepfather, her mother, Nixzaliz Santiago, said yesterday in an explosive jailhouse interview.
Speaking for the first time since her daughter's slaying sickened the city last week, Santiago detailed the final horrifying hours of the 7-year-old's tragic life - including how the girl moaned and writhed allegedly after being punished in the bathtub, allegedly by Cesar Rod.riguez, 27.
Santiago said she dressed her little girl in dry pajamas and tried to warm her. After her heartbreaking last words, Nixzmary's neck drooped.
"Her head went limp," her mother said tearfully.
At Rikers, where she is being held on manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges, Santiago said another female inmate threatened her.
"She said, 'I'm going to kick your a-- and I'm going to kill you for what you did to that baby.' I'm afraid for my life in here."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/383111p-325244c.html
'I WAS AFRAID HE'D HIT ME,' SAYS MOM OF HORROR NIGHT 'MISCHIEVOUS' NIXZMARY DIED
Nixzmary Brown's mother yesterday admitted she stood idle as her sadistic husband viciously beat her daughter because she feared for herself and, besides, the child was insolent and sneaky.
"Nixzmary had an attitude," Nixzaliz Santiago, 27, told The Post in a jailhouse interview at Rikers Island.
"She is isolated because she creates mischief in the middle of the night," she said, still speaking of her dead daughter in the present tense.
A whimpering Santiago said she cried to her evil hubby, "Leave her alone!" at about 11 p.m. Tuesday, as cops say the maniacal fiend was launching his merciless attack on the hollow-eyed 7-year-old.
But it was the only intervention she offered.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/61616.htm
PSYCH TEST FOR BEAST DAD
Accused child-abuse fiend Cesar Rodriguez has been moved from Rikers Island to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, authorities said yesterday.
Rodriguez who faces second-degree murder charges for allegedly beating 7-year-old stepdaughter Nixzmary Brown to death last week was transferred to Bellevue's prison-psychiatric ward in Manhattan on Saturday, correction officials said.
Staff at Rikers Island made the referral as a routine precaution given the severity of the charges and the notoriety of the case rather than in response to any specific threat from Rodriguez or other inmates, sources said.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/61613.htm
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The happiest days in Nixzmary Brown's all-too-short life were spent in Puerto Rico, surrounded by sunshine, family and fun, her mother said yesterday.
"She was always playing with her little toys in the courtyard of my family's house there," Nixzaliz Santiago recalled during an interview at Rikers Island.
Nixzmary reveled in the island's sunshine and yearned to go back. Last week, Nixzmary's maternal grandmother, Maria Gonzalez, revealed her granddaughter had begged her to take her back to Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, after a Christmastime visit.
But Gonzalez, 53, said she couldn't afford to buy the extra plane ticket that may have saved Nixzmary's life - and couldn't get the necessary paperwork done.
Despite Nixzmary's tragic end, Santiago insisted she still loves her husband and her daughter, whose slaying led to manslaughter and other charges against the mother of six.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/383108p-325240c.html
Goodbyes, donations honor angel
The wake for 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown will be held today and tomorrow from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Ortiz Funeral Home at 22 First Ave. in Manhattan.
A funeral Mass will be said Wednesday at 9 a.m. at St.Mary's Church at 440 Grand St., also Manhattan. Burial will follow at Rose Hill Cemetery in Linden, N.J.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/383110p-325243c.html
"She was always playing with her little toys in the courtyard of my family's house there," Nixzaliz Santiago recalled during an interview at Rikers Island.
Nixzmary reveled in the island's sunshine and yearned to go back. Last week, Nixzmary's maternal grandmother, Maria Gonzalez, revealed her granddaughter had begged her to take her back to Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, after a Christmastime visit.
But Gonzalez, 53, said she couldn't afford to buy the extra plane ticket that may have saved Nixzmary's life - and couldn't get the necessary paperwork done.
Despite Nixzmary's tragic end, Santiago insisted she still loves her husband and her daughter, whose slaying led to manslaughter and other charges against the mother of six.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/383108p-325240c.html
Goodbyes, donations honor angel
The wake for 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown will be held today and tomorrow from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Ortiz Funeral Home at 22 First Ave. in Manhattan.
A funeral Mass will be said Wednesday at 9 a.m. at St.Mary's Church at 440 Grand St., also Manhattan. Burial will follow at Rose Hill Cemetery in Linden, N.J.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/383110p-325243c.html
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This poor child. Her mom stated in one of her interviews that prisoners are already saying they are going to kick her a-- and she is afraid, well now you know a little bit of the fear Nixzmary had given that she was a child.
This is really a sad, sad case.
This is really a sad, sad case.