Link for previous FR thread about Nixzmary Brown.
Posted on 01/13/2006 11:57:34 PM PST by beaversmom
A 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.
He had seen the bruises on her painfully thin arms and legs, he had heard her stepfather order her to "get your f- - -ing ass over here," and he knew she was living in fear.
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.
"I should have taken her to the precinct," a guilt-ridden Robinson told The Post yesterday. "I should have said, 'Come on, let's go to the precinct.' "
Robinson recalled the first time he saw Nixzmary in the park. It was last September, and he was with his nieces and nephews, who live nearby.
"She was running back and forth like a normal 7-year-old," he said. "I noticed her when her father came to the stoop and shouted at her, 'Get your f- - -ing ass over here.'
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Link for previous FR thread about Nixzmary Brown.
Nixzmary Brown ping. I sure wish this guy would have acted and taken that girl to the police.
Mother had children with at least 3 different men.
Yes, Perry you should have.
Then Robinson said, "I rolled up her sleeve, and I saw a welt, and I said, 'Who did this to you? " and she said, 'They say they're going to kill me.'
"I said, 'Who's going to kill you?' and she started crying.
"I said, 'That's why you wish your mommy and daddy were dead?' and she said 'yeah.'
I wish he would have called the police immediately... I suppose he didn't realize she would really be killed. Such a horrible tragic story... my heart breaks that she suffered so much at the hands that those who were supposed to love her and care for her and protect her, before she went home to God.
Halloween 2005 family photo of Nixzmary Brown, a 7 year old girl who was allegedly killed by her parents. (Handout photo) Jan. 13, 2006
Thanks for posting the pictures.
I wouldn't call over bruises because all kids get those for innocent reasons but with what this guy had been told by the little girl, he should have done something. I don't blame him though near as much as I blame the mother and the extended family of this little girl. Actually I blame the mother more than I do the piece of crap that killed her. She knew he was a sewer rat but stuck by him and had two kids with him all the while he is beating her other kids, starving them, and allegedly sexually abusing at least Nixzmary. That woman needs to be executed and that's no joke.
Hell ain't hot enough for some folks....
I hope the little angel is enjoying heaven.
After her death, cops made a gruesome discovery in the home — a bottle containing a fetus police believe is a recent Santiago miscarriage.
Looks like she might have had #3 with the beast.
This 'person' who failed to protect this child doesn't deserve sympathy, he deserves to be indicted and prosecuted.
Christ Almighty, a freaking paralegal and he just let it f****** happen....
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Now, with three precious angels sleeping in their beds under my roof, I am ENRAGED.
This f-in animal deserves to be shot and p-ssed on. The creature (she doesn't deserve the title of Mother) that stood by and let this happen deserves to be shot and p-ssed on.
I know the Lord says that vengeance is His, but I would gladly pull the trigger myself.
Thank you for posting the story. I wasn't aware of the original thread, and am just heartbroken for Nixzmary. I hope people read this and realize just how far it can go for these poor lost children. She was asking for help, the only way she knew how. 7 year old girls don't talk about wishing people dead, certainly not their parents, and certainly not accompanied by bruises and welts, and talk of killings and beating. :(
Amen. I am sure she is :)
Most reasonable people can tell if a child has a bruise or cut by a childhood accident but when the child says, how she got the injury and she wishes her parents were dead. That's a pretty good sign the authorities need to be contacted.
Hopefully they'll end up in the same cell.
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I hope the little angel is enjoying heaven.
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That's the only way - that any of it can even be comprehended. She's safe in the Lord's presence. Totally whole - and safe from all harm.
I agree with another poster - before I had my daughter this story would have really made me angry - it both enrages me and makes me cry now. How anyone could be so brutal is simply incomprehensible on any level, and how a mommy could just walk away is beyond me.
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