Posted on 01/12/2006 5:31:33 AM PST by N. Beaujon
January 12, 2006 -- A bright and talented 7-year-old girl was beaten to death yesterday in her Brooklyn apartment — where she was often tied to a wooden chair — even though child-welfare agents were already probing allegations of abuse, authorities said yesterday. Nixzmary Brown was unconscious and unresponsive when she was found by her mother yesterday morning in their Bedford-Stuyvesant home.
Police said the tiny girl was found face up on the floor and had multiple bruises and injuries that were "in various stages of healing."
A police source said Nixzmary had bruises on her wrists and ankles, apparently from being tied to the chair with a cord.
"When all the facts come out on this, it's going to be as bad as Lisa Steinberg," said a detective, referring to the infamous 1987 case of a 6-year-old girl beaten to death by her adoptive father, Joel Steinberg. http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/60261.htm
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This story should trigger a national outrage.
TV news said 27 year old woman who gave birth to her had 5 other children aged 6 mos to 9 years. I think 2 were fathered by the monster implicated with her in the child's death.
I hate when the convicted killer gets a harsher sentence than the parent who stood by and watched. I hope the book is thrown at them both.
It won't for a thousand reasons.
One of those reasons is that it's a poor black kid from Bedford-Stuyvesant and the media figures they won't get the attention they would if it were a kid from an average or better part of the country. And note, this is the same media that says it's heart bleeds for the downtrodden.
Later today, Ted Kennedy will accuse Sam Alito of being the assailant.
Nah, it's Bush's fault.
...what always annoys me about a tragic story like this is how well the individual case workers identity is hidden. their supervisor and their supervisor. We had a few cases like this in NJ recently and the liberal administrations answer like everything else....hire MORE incompetence.. the current arraignment of one supervisor for three case workers seems a little odd. Seems to me that if the system allows things like this tragedy to happen....it's the system that needs fixing....not hire more people to allow things to get to way past intervention. But alas, we must not pursue incompetence, political correctness and hiring more stupid people to address an obvious "problem" will suffice.
Doogle
How well does a "child welfare" system work when it can't protect a girl like this? These people are bureaucrats, nothing more. I'm sure that while this little girl was being pummeled to death, the social workers were standing around the water cooler kvetching about their overwhelming case loads and their meager salaries.
Oh surely some blogger or Freeper could find out who these people are.
Why?
What would we do about it? Require parenting licenses? Can we sentence the mother to death along with the murderer? Can we sentence the killer to death by torture? Will either be punished appropriately? I strongly doubt it.
The woman was 27 and had five kids, the oldest of which was 9; she's been dropping brats since she was 17-18 years old. She chose poorly for herself and her children, and we were forced to subsidize it.
..I'm sure some FReeper could. The liberal press will not.
Doogle
Well stated. That is one main reason, in addition to the beast like "parents" this little girl is dead.
Well, then this will really chap your hide. Up here in NY, as a registered nurse, I am what they call a Mandatory Reporter. Which means, I am compelled by law to report cases of possible/suspected abuse. Sounds reasonable right? But here's the kicker, if I don't, I can be fined, suspended or even loose my lisence. So I report,then it's turned over to ACS, and the rest is just like the tragic story we just read.
2005...33 children died in NY state under child protective care.
2004...32
now is it the system, or the way it's run and the people running it?
Doogle
Or they are "busy" investigating one parent in a divorce dispute where an accusation of improper behavior towards a child is used as lever to get a better financial settlement.
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