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.'
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Actually, we have a Fire Mission.
Let me guess, you're just going to lay there and play dead?
You posted your tripe, now come back and defend it.
ROFLMAO!!!!!
Bye.
Yeah, lets all blame Perry. Its ALL his fault you know.
"The reason these things happen is that we live in a society that places very little value on children."
Conservatives place high value on children.
Liberals want to abort them.
Hmmm... who places little value on children?
I believe it's dead, Jim.
At least it no longer appears to be posting.
It was still alive just a few seconds ago.
It BRAVELY ran away.
You can lead a child to food, but you can't make her eat!
You did the right thing. Choices have consequences. You did not withhold food from her...she withheld food for herself.
I think that many people have come to believe that anything a child wants, a child should have—and now. There are many adults whose behavior is a consequence of this kind of thinking.
In any case, good parenting!
Hello?
Do you have anything to say in defense of your trolling screed here?
How would people have reacted if a 49 year old single man grabbed the little girl and carried her away from her stepfather to a police station? He probably didn't feel like there was much he could actively do, but he could have called child protective services.
Darlin',
I know you meant well,
but PLEASE do NOT ping me to something like this.
Just don't.
Ever.
Period.
Please.
God Bless ; I agree with the sentiment of the other poster
Okers.
Was pinging you to post 87 and the troll therein.
But, understood.
The issue being that I don't see them as a troll,
but as someone who knows the dark side of what can happen to children.
Sorry, but on these topics, I don't even read, much less post.
I don't think it is coming back...but do we have a troll 'watchlist' to check for it periodically? (assuming the account doesn't somehow get suspended)
Okers.
Understood.
Not that I am aware of.
Where do we condone withholding food?
You sir are a troll in need of a Zot!
there is a difference in applying discipline with a rod as to beating with a fist or other object. I need not explain, I trust you have no children to make such comments.
Be gone with you!
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