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TRAGIC CHILD TOLD ME HER SAD SECRET: 'I WISH THEY WERE DEAD' (7 Year old Nixzmary Brown)
New York Post ^ | January 14, 2006 | John Doyle

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: New York
KEYWORDS: childabuse; nixzmarybrown; post87; stepfather; trollinthread
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To: pollyannaish

Thanks!! Whew!! I was worried that I was an abuser!! (NOT!)


121 posted on 01/18/2006 12:24:13 PM PST by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
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To: beezdotcom
I agree

I have Kids of my own.. 4 and I never beat them... spanked, yes; beat, no!

122 posted on 01/18/2006 12:25:20 PM PST by Zavien Doombringer (13th AF, 3rd TFW, 3rd AGS, 3rd AMU - ESC The Blue Screw will get you too! 86-89)
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To: beezdotcom; najida

Najida had a rough past.
And I stupidly forgot about it when I pinged her.
And as such I must apologize to her for my lack of thought on it.


123 posted on 01/18/2006 12:26:29 PM PST by Darksheare (Tagline subverted for nefarious plans of nefariousness.)
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To: StarCMC

LOL. I am glad your children and my children will be part of the same generation.

That said, this is a horrible and tragic story. Heartbreaking to say the least.


124 posted on 01/18/2006 12:27:35 PM PST by pollyannaish
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To: beaversmom
This society is upside down. We keep the sickos alive and well, while the innocent parish without mercy.

Actions no longer have consequences. Justice does not exist.

The laws of God have no meaning.

The laws of nature (Darwin), where there are consequences for the actions taken, have been suspended.

This is not what the founding fathers intended.
125 posted on 01/18/2006 12:28:20 PM PST by Herakles
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To: pollyannaish
You can lead a child to food, but you can't make her eat!

I know that... Parents brought brussel sprouts to me all the time I kept refusing till they took the hint...

126 posted on 01/18/2006 12:28:58 PM PST by Zavien Doombringer (13th AF, 3rd TFW, 3rd AGS, 3rd AMU - ESC The Blue Screw will get you too! 86-89)
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To: dalcanton

A little humor but when I was small my mom and dad would punish me by making me eat the dreaded Meatloaf. I would sit at the dinner table alone until bedtime. This is a dreadful story and I believe these two will get away with it just like Joel Steinberg did, he is free. :(


127 posted on 01/18/2006 12:29:32 PM PST by angcat
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To: Constitution Day

I was thinking I am a bad mother because I am always yelling at my kids. I want to hug them now also.


128 posted on 01/18/2006 12:30:17 PM PST by angcat
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To: SkyPilot; moonman

Thank you, both...
Ms.B


129 posted on 01/18/2006 12:38:12 PM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: roadrunner96

Thank you, Roadrunner..
Ms.B


130 posted on 01/18/2006 12:40:05 PM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: Windsong
"Yeah, lets all blame Perry. Its ALL his fault you know."

It is his fault. The have laws in effect that would have forced an intervention. I've gotten involvd when they weren't in effect. Perry told his own story regarding the events and wishes he would have done something.

131 posted on 01/18/2006 12:41:09 PM PST by spunkets
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To: Zavien Doombringer
There are certain advantages to being grown up.

For many years I looked forward to a time when eating cauliflower was no longer expected.

Something HAS to compensate for responsible adulthood after all.
132 posted on 01/18/2006 12:43:30 PM PST by pollyannaish
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To: starbase; SittinYonder

It's really easy to call CPS out on a family. It's happened to us. The case was so bizarre that the cops were ready to call it harassment...but the CPS worker still had to waste her time coming out and investigating and doing all her stuff, just because someone decided to call CPS to say that my children were home unsupervised and there was an infant in the home. Funny thing, the first time, they were with a 16 yo babysitter, the second time, I was home. And my youngest child is 6. In addition, we are not Asian, as the caller indicated I was. That's about the time the cops decided that whoever the caller was was just out to get me or crazy, and told me to not worry about it. They actually called the caller to say DO NOT CALL US AGAIN. Who knows what was going on. All I know is that it wasted my time, the cops time and the social worker's time. And it put me through hell for a few days, even KNOWING I was innocent, because CPS can and will pull kids for very little reason on occasion.

If you suspect abuse, by all means, call. But not for a couple of bruises. Children are hurt and families torn up by false accusations of abuse too. You don't have to dig too far into the foster care system to see that.


133 posted on 01/18/2006 12:53:56 PM PST by Mama25 (The only chaps a girl can trust are those she wears)
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To: dalcanton
"we as a society look away and condone the physical punishment of children, what else do we really expect?"

You have an extremely hard time grasping reality. The fact that you make such dingbat statements proves it. Seems you can't differentiate between child behaviors that deserve punishmnet and those that do. To you a kid burglarizing a house is the same as spilled milk. Your're a liberal.

134 posted on 01/18/2006 12:56:28 PM PST by spunkets
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To: Darksheare; beezdotcom

ACK!

All I see is someone who has a button that got pushed. When it's all over you want to crawl in a hole out of embarrassment.

I saw that in the poster. Not a troll, but someone who flashed. That's all.


135 posted on 01/18/2006 12:57:29 PM PST by najida (OK, so we have this problem with the paint cans sticking to the floor.....)
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To: najida; beezdotcom

I understand.


136 posted on 01/18/2006 1:01:56 PM PST by Darksheare (Tagline subverted for nefarious plans of nefariousness.)
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To: StarCMC
"For the last 2 of 3 nights the 4yo went to bed without supper because she refused to eat what was on her plate...

She will soon learn what pockets are for.

137 posted on 01/18/2006 1:02:20 PM PST by spunkets
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To: TheWriterTX

Before I was blessed with children of my own, stories like this used to trouble me.
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.




Exactly how I'm feeling right now.


138 posted on 01/18/2006 1:12:46 PM PST by dmanLA
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To: dalcanton
Who cares if a child is beaten--it's discipline, right?

Troll why don't you come over here and I will show your arse the difference....ok?
139 posted on 01/18/2006 1:44:20 PM PST by MikefromOhio
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To: Mama25

Your story is what frightens me. I've had friends who have had similar experiences. The one that scares me most is a guy I knew was playing with his kid in the living room of his first floor apartment. The guy had his shirt off. The child was dressed.

A neighbor walked by and decided it looked like the guy was molesting his kid. DFCS (CPS in Georgia) came and took the child and the guy could only have supervised visitation for nearly two months while the allegations were investigated.

That was before I had kids. It was unreal to me, and even though I'd known the guy for years I found myself becoming suspicious of him. In the end, they didn't prosecute, there was nothing to it, and he got his kid back.


140 posted on 01/18/2006 1:57:24 PM PST by SittinYonder (That's how I saw it, and see it still.)
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