GUILTY NY - Nixzmary Brown, 7, beaten to death in Brooklyn, 11 Jan 2006

[KatherineQ]

I think there's a very good chance that the mother miscarried for the same reason Nixzmary had to go to the hospital - being beaten by Cesar.

She doesn't seem to have any real problem typically having babies, she's quite prolific at it, and it sounds from her description the baby was perfectly formed.

 

[concernedperson]

The alleged mother didn't just ignore when he dragged her to the tub! When Nixmary begged her alleged mother to stay with her that night, she left and went to bed with the monster! So Nixmary ended up dying alone!

If I don't think I can be any more angry than this does it for me. I am climbing up the walls with anger now. Please people, report child abuse. It goes on.....and it could be your next door neighbor or a relative. Don't let children suffer at the hands of evil people. This case has touched a nerve for me as well as others. The mere fact that this idiot woman kept a dead fetus in a jar tells me there is a lot going on in her head that I don't won't to be privy to. The Dead Zone. The Martyr Facts.All manifestations. The sickness is all to apparent. Not an exculpatory sickness but the fact that one could think this is OK.

 

[PrayersForMaura]

http://www.nynewsday.com/entertainment/tv/nyc-wake0117,0,7656232.story?coll=nyc-swapbox1

(contains a slideshow of 50+ pictures - there are pictures of her in her casket yet they warn you before they show)

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_018052107.html

(contains a slideshow of some of the funeral and the morons being arrestd)



Rodriguez and Santiago have pleaded not guilty in the girl's death.

My, my, my!!

I had to see her. I looked.
Her precious little face and her eyes close while she lay there, peacefully in that casket. Never to breathe one more breath of fear, or smell rotten feces in a litter box. Never having to worry about when the next blow will come to her if she does something "wrong" like any child her age might do.
Eating some yogurt is suddenly a capital offense in her home, but no more.
For she is somewhere peaceful now, where she can do and have whatever she wants and be away from the cruel monsters who deprived her of life, love and happiness, of a childhood ... of making "mistakes" - if any at all -and being able to be properly dealt with for them.

I can't help but think she is in a better place now.
But she shouldn't have to be. She should be in a better place
ALIVE somewhere.
In a home where someone could've shown her that a family isn't like that.
That it's ok to have a yogurt. That it's ok to do something a child would do and not get beaten to death for it, or be made to live in deplorable conditions.

Damn her "so-called" parents.
I can't believe what they did. I just can't believe it.
I sit here and type all of this and I still just can't believe it.

Rest well, sweet child.

 

[KatherineQ]

I read an op-ed yesterday on the net, it was really profoundly touching to me, and mirrored what I feel about her pictures.

I think that picture is horrible. Her lips are huge and deformed, and you can see swelling in the eye sockets. I'm sure closer you can see what the reporter was saying - deep, black bruises on her face almost covered by layers and layers of make-up. Horribly twisted, to cover her up and put the prettiest clothes she's ever had, and glove her tiny bruised hands so people could look at her.

Does anyone else feel like that when they look at that picture? That she looks monstrously bruised? Her power ranger picture looks horrible, the school choir picture looks horrible, she looks like the picture of fear and abuse to me.

Like that little Jeffrey boy, too, with his purple swollen eye sockets and glassy eyes. Maybe I'm just seeing aura . . . those kids look shocking to me.

 

[PrayersForMaura]

I read an op-ed yesterday on the net, it was really profoundly touching to me, and mirrored what I feel about her pictures.

I think that picture is horrible. Her lips are huge and deformed, and you can see swelling in the eye sockets. I'm sure closer you can see what the reporter was saying - deep, black bruises on her face almost covered by layers and layers of make-up. Horribly twisted, to cover her up and put the prettiest clothes she's ever had, and glove her tiny bruised hands so people could look at her.

Does anyone else feel like that when they look at that picture? That she looks monstrously bruised? Her power ranger picture looks horrible, the school choir picture looks horrible, she looks like the picture of fear and abuse to me.

Like that little Jeffrey boy, too, with his purple swollen eye sockets and glassy eyes. Maybe I'm just seeing aura . . . those kids look shocking to me.

I totally agree with you. She does look bruised and battered.
And the power rangers picture does look awful, she has dark-hollow eyes.
She's terribly thin.
But when you look past that, she is still precious and beautiful.

Poor, poor girl.

 

[Anniegirl]

I had to see her. I looked.
Her precious little face and her eyes close while she lay there, peacefully in that casket. Never to breathe one more breath of fear, or smell rotten feces in a litter box. Never having to worry about when the next blow will come to her if she does something "wrong" like any child her age might do.
Eating some yogurt is suddenly a capital offense in her home, but no more.
For she is somewhere peaceful now, where she can do and have whatever she wants and be away from the cruel monsters who deprived her of life, love and happiness, of a childhood ... of making "mistakes" - if any at all -and being able to be properly dealt with for them.

I can't help but think she is in a better place now.
But she shouldn't have to be. She should be in a better place
ALIVE somewhere.
In a home where someone could've shown her that a family isn't like that.
That it's ok to have a yogurt. That it's ok to do something a child would do and not get beaten to death for it, or be made to live in deplorable conditions.

Damn her "so-called" parents.
I can't believe what they did. I just can't believe it.
I sit here and type all of this and I still just can't believe it.

Rest well, sweet child.

This post made me cry--- so true , Maura- no child should feel getting a yogurt int heir home is a first offense- but its true in her world the simplilest things were taught to mean she was being "BAD" and a horrible little girl.... just breaks my heart--

Concerned Person, i went back and read post #38- i know how you feel, i didnt think i could be more upset with the mother than i already was but i am:slap:

 

[2beautifulboys]

This story is just so sad, and it seems it is repeated so often. Loser mothers with loser men, doing great harm and causing death to such sweet angels. Just think of the other children that also witnessed their sister being mistreated. They grow up thinking it's OK to be mean to those you are supposed to love, such a horribly confusing and scary to live daily. Damn them. I hope the DA chews them up and spits them out, this should be an automatic death penalty no matter what the hell state you live in.

 

[PrayersForMaura]

Mourners, city say final farewell to Nixzmary Brown

They said their sorries and threw long-stemmed roses, carnations, balloons and teddy bears into the wet grave , a final goodbye to Nixzmary Brown, whose short life in some ways was defined by her death.

It was only after the tiny 7-year-old was six feet beneath the earth that her relatives, some who hadn't seen her in four years, broke down with regret.


"I'm sorry! I couldn't help you! I'm sorry," screamed Yasminda Villanueva, 22, a maternal cousin who stood over the little girl's grave at Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn as heavy rain fell.

They wondered: What if?

More: http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/queens/nyc-fune0119,0,3444686.story?coll=nyc-manheadlines-queens

 

[mysteriew]

Hours after teary-eyed family, friends and total strangers delivered a final farewell to a 7-year-old Brooklyn girl allegedly killed by her stepfather, city officials announced a shake-up Wednesday at the agency that missed the obvious warning signs of her brutal death.

A half-dozen employees at the Administration for Children's Services were suspended or otherwise disciplined over their responses to reports of problems with Nixzmary Brown, who died in a beating allegedly inflicted over a missing container of yogurt.

Shortly after the funeral, the head of the city ACS announced the shake-up at the department, including the immediate suspension of two supervisors and one child protective worker. Three other employees were disciplined and moved under new supervision, said ACS chief John Mattingly.

"The staff made poor investigative decisions, and gave inadequate attention to clear warning signs," Mattingly told a news conference. The workers were cited for allegedly mishandling a pair of cases involving the little girl: a May 2005 report that she had missed 47 school days, and a December 2005 report of physical abuse.

He raised the possibility of firings or additional suspensions tied to the Brown case.

In a series of top-level administrative changes, Mattingly announced the creation of an ombudsman's office within ACS, and he asked the city's department of investigation to do a deeper look into possible misconduct. He's also reorganizing the senior staff to strengthen the oversight of child safety.
http://www.wnbc.com/news/6144607/detail.html

 

[strach304]

The alleged mother didn't just ignore when he dragged her to the tub! When Nixmary begged her alleged mother to stay with her that night, she left and went to bed with the monster! So Nixmary ended up dying alone!
See post #38[/QUOTE
That's the part I read from the first media reports that reduced me to tears, she begged her mother not to leave her and the moaning plus dying alone for this child makes it more of a tragedy for me. I've never cried like this and I've seen so much in my lifetime. I just want them both dead now in a very brutal death. They might both be in protective custody now but eventually they'll be put in general population and as sure as I sit here I know the other prisoners and guards will make their lives a living hell even if they don't kill them.

I'm not suggesting that this child's death is any more tragic than so many others and there have been many but I think many people including myself are taking this one so hard because it could've been prevented and the media reported the child's pleadings and gave a first hand account of her suffering. Most of the time whenever anyone is killed you have no idea what their last words were, how they felt right before dying or the extent of suffering.

 

[Mygirlsadie]

You know I looked at the funeral/wake pictures and it wasnt so much the pics of her lying in the casket that got me because I look at her beautiful little self now as resting and away from the hell she lived. But its the grandmother and the lookie-loo's who are now acting like they are just sooo distraught. Give me a freakin break you idiots you knew the life she was living and you didnt care when she was alive to help her. I just feel somehow like they also need to be charged with something. Esp. the grandmother who saw her at Christmas time ..puke!! The newspapers were there the mayor was there the whole country is outraged and showing attention to this case is that why NOW the family wants to act like they were soooo concerned about her? This kind of attitude sickens me. This is not the same thing by no means but when my husband went to Iraq and the whole year he was in Iraq his parents had absolutely nothing to do with me not one phone call to see if he was ok not one email not one package to him not one letter or email or anything to him. The week before he was to come home they heard about the big celebration that the 1st CAV. was going to have for them for the homecoming well guess who all of a sudden called and said they were going to be there? I told them NO. Don't just show up when it looks like YOU might get a little attention so you can take all the credit as the caring grieving parents/grandparents. Poor little baby girl suffered at the hands of her whole family not just just the idiot mom and step dad. And now they want to act like they care? I'm not buying it.

 

[strach304]

Mygirlsadie, I have relatives like that too so I do know what you mean. There's some condition I read about sounds like Maruchun's Syndrome or something, looks german but it's about mothers that kill their children or even make them sick by poison or other means to get attention and sympathy. Yes no matter what happens there are people who try and make it about them or insert themselves into a situation. Those are the types of sociopaths that I believe doctors refer to as non-criminal types but in the case of this child's grandmother I think it should be a crime.

 

[mysteriew]

Some have criticized the media for their coverage of this case. The pics in the paper and so forth. But from I have read, this was done with some of the families cooperation, and I don't think that is a bad thing.
They have mentioned some names in reference to this case. Naussbaum, I remember, I read a couple of magazine articles about that case. I believe it was national news at the time it happened, and again when the monster got out. NY children's services made promises at that time, that they would clean up their act, and prevent it from happening again. But it did. I have seen the name Brown, and I can't remember the other name. I don't remember those cases, don't think I even saw them. (and ya know I read a lot of them, LOL). They didn't make national news. Evidently they were more recent. Evidently NY children's services promised to clean up their act again. Then Nixmary died. Media opened this case up. By showing her picture so much, they made it more personal. By showing the pictures of her in her casket- they made it too hard to forget or look over her death. The public is now outraged. Firings are beginning at children's services. The state government is looking over their shoulder's. They are already looking at changes in the children's services system. I haven't heard anything about what is happening at NYPD, but I have a sneaky suspicion that they are doing a lot of reviewing also. New laws have already been proposed. When the other children died, you didn't see that type of action. But everyone saw that baby in her casket. She isn't a faceless child anymore. Now the public will stand and demand proof of changes in the children's services, changes in the laws. It was hard to look at, yes. But it will also be hard to forget. And people who didn't go to the funeral, will not be able to look away now.
It wasn't a bad thing. It was what was needed.

 

[PrayersForMaura]

Hours after teary-eyed family, friends and total strangers delivered a final farewell to a 7-year-old Brooklyn girl allegedly killed by her stepfather, city officials announced a shake-up Wednesday at the agency that missed the obvious warning signs of her brutal death.

A half-dozen employees at the Administration for Children's Services were suspended or otherwise disciplined over their responses to reports of problems with Nixzmary Brown, who died in a beating allegedly inflicted over a missing container of yogurt.

Shortly after the funeral, the head of the city ACS announced the shake-up at the department, including the immediate suspension of two supervisors and one child protective worker. Three other employees were disciplined and moved under new supervision, said ACS chief John Mattingly.

"The staff made poor investigative decisions, and gave inadequate attention to clear warning signs," Mattingly told a news conference. The workers were cited for allegedly mishandling a pair of cases involving the little girl: a May 2005 report that she had missed 47 school days, and a December 2005 report of physical abuse.

He raised the possibility of firings or additional suspensions tied to the Brown case.

In a series of top-level administrative changes, Mattingly announced the creation of an ombudsman's office within ACS, and he asked the city's department of investigation to do a deeper look into possible misconduct. He's also reorganizing the senior staff to strengthen the oversight of child safety.
http://www.wnbc.com/news/6144607/detail.html

Ya know what ... good, they should all lose their jobs.
But it won't bring the little girl back.
I hope they arefeeling some guilt now.
Their job is to do something.
If they are only there to collect a paycheck and they really don't care about these kids, then they should find new jobs before any other child dies.

 

[shdbepaintin]

The alleged mother didn't just ignore when he dragged her to the tub! When Nixmary begged her alleged mother to stay with her that night, she left and went to bed with the monster! So Nixmary ended up dying alone!
See post #38

How can any mother with an ounce of paternal insticts go to bed and leave that child cold, hurting and alone?
I pray that this does bring about some changes in the systems so that more children can be removed from these situations and put into loving homes.
Just saddens me and makes me feel so helpless.
Vicki

 

[shdbepaintin]

Don't you just love how these dysfunctional families turn the tables when it suits them? They become saints and martyrs at a funeral. Getting accolades at the expense of the deceased. Makes me sick.

And they throw their weight around about who should and who shouldn't be here. Well guess what folks NO ONE SHOULD BE HERE. THIS SHOULDN'T have happened.
and since neither side did anything to stop it they should just back off and let this baby be buried in peace.
Just boils me when these situations become about "them" and not about the precious child that lived and died in such A horrible manner.
Vicki

 

[chiefs_fan_4life]

MygirlSadie,

Your post was very, very well said. Thank you so much for that. You are 150% correct. Rest in peace, poor baby.

 

[Anniegirl]

You know I looked at the funeral/wake pictures and it wasnt so much the pics of her lying in the casket that got me because I look at her beautiful little self now as resting and away from the hell she lived. But its the grandmother and the lookie-loo's who are now acting like they are just sooo distraught. Give me a freakin break you idiots you knew the life she was living and you didnt care when she was alive to help her. I just feel somehow like they also need to be charged with something. Esp. the grandmother who saw her at Christmas time ..puke!! The newspapers were there the mayor was there the whole country is outraged and showing attention to this case is that why NOW the family wants to act like they were soooo concerned about her? This kind of attitude sickens me. This is not the same thing by no means but when my husband went to Iraq and the whole year he was in Iraq his parents had absolutely nothing to do with me not one phone call to see if he was ok not one email not one package to him not one letter or email or anything to him. The week before he was to come home they heard about the big celebration that the 1st CAV. was going to have for them for the homecoming well guess who all of a sudden called and said they were going to be there? I told them NO. Don't just show up when it looks like YOU might get a little attention so you can take all the credit as the caring grieving parents/grandparents. Poor little baby girl suffered at the hands of her whole family not just just the idiot mom and step dad. And now they want to act like they care? I'm not buying it.

I feel the same way looking at the pictures of her family viewing her, looking so sad, and loving--- where were they when she needed that love and caring the most?
It was obvious by looking at pictures of her as far back as kindergarten with the big smile, but yet, pale,gaut look in her eyes from malnutrition /abuse, where were these relatives than?

You did the right thing , Sadie by telling his family to stay away from his celebration home, when they showed no support when he needed it most , in Iraq.:clap:

 

[Insomniac]

If I don't think I can be any more angry than this does it for me. I am climbing up the walls with anger now. Please people, report child abuse. It goes on.....and it could be your next door neighbor or a relative. Don't let children suffer at the hands of evil people. This case has touched a nerve for me as well as others. The mere fact that this idiot woman kept a dead fetus in a jar tells me there is a lot going on in her head that I don't won't to be privy to. The Dead Zone. The Martyr Facts.All manifestations. The sickness is all to apparent. Not an exculpatory sickness but the fact that one could think this is OK.

I agree about the martyr thing. She probably feels that she is somehow the only woman who has suffered a miscarriage. I bet she only likes kids when they are babies and she has more control over them. I believe she was nursing her youngest child when Nixzmary was being beaten to death. That seemed to be her excuse for not responding. So not delaying a child's hunger to save the life of another one is how she thinks. That tells me she was no real instincts at best, and at worst a horrible monster who sees children as playthings ( I believe the latter). I also don't believe she's a "dumb" as her mother is portraying her as. If she kept a fetus in a bottle, she'd have to have put it in some type of perservation fluid. I bet she can't stand when they grow older and develop their own personalites and minds she can't deal with it. I think she's a selfish, narcissistic person who sees herself as the only one who has needs.. She chose the attention of a man over her child.

 

[Insomniac]

Some have criticized the media for their coverage of this case. The pics in the paper and so forth. But from I have read, this was done with some of the families cooperation, and I don't think that is a bad thing.
They have mentioned some names in reference to this case. Naussbaum, I remember, I read a couple of magazine articles about that case. I believe it was national news at the time it happened, and again when the monster got out. NY children's services made promises at that time, that they would clean up their act, and prevent it from happening again. But it did. I have seen the name Brown, and I can't remember the other name. I don't remember those cases, don't think I even saw them. (and ya know I read a lot of them, LOL). They didn't make national news. Evidently they were more recent. Evidently NY children's services promised to clean up their act again. Then Nixmary died. Media opened this case up. By showing her picture so much, they made it more personal. By showing the pictures of her in her casket- they made it too hard to forget or look over her death. The public is now outraged. Firings are beginning at children's services. The state government is looking over their shoulder's. They are already looking at changes in the children's services system. I haven't heard anything about what is happening at NYPD, but I have a sneaky suspicion that they are doing a lot of reviewing also. New laws have already been proposed. When the other children died, you didn't see that type of action. But everyone saw that baby in her casket. She isn't a faceless child anymore. Now the public will stand and demand proof of changes in the children's services, changes in the laws. It was hard to look at, yes. But it will also be hard to forget. And people who didn't go to the funeral, will not be able to look away now.
It wasn't a bad thing. It was what was needed.

Actually, I think this case deserves media attention, it might be the way to make the necessary changes. The one person I read that was criticizing the media, was the dumb@#$ union delegate for the caseworkers. What a jerk. He was going on about them being cleared. What a heartless creep.