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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Some states already have chemical castration as a form of punishment for child molesters and rapists. I know of instances in Georgia where it has been used, and it has been met with approval from the citizens.
It's also a slippery slope to allow more and more children to be born into miserable situations where, usually at public expense, they are neglected and abused until they start reproducing themselves in their teens -- almost always repeating the cycle of totally dysfunctional welfare-dependent homes, where violence and substance abuse are the daily norm. The problem gets bigger and bigger, and we slide further and further down the slope.
The three older surviving children in Nixzmary's family are certainly old enough to be permanently psychologically damaged by their early childhood experiences, and the two younger ones are not likely to be completely unscathed either. There are nowhere near enough good foster/adoptive homes available to take in all the kids like them, who will have serious behavioral and psychological problems, and require incredibly intensive and highly competent parenting to make them turn out even marginally sane and functional. So most of them will just end up bounced around the foster care system, until they "age out" -- though many of the girls will already have babies by then, fathered by equally messed up teenage boys. Nixzmary's mother had produced six children. Another mother in NYC who killed her young daughter a couple of years back also had six. Even though they kill off a few of them, enough survive and reproduce to ensure that the problem is larger in the next generation. That's not a slippery slope?
The ubiquitous security cameras strike some people as sinister, but I think they do a lot of good, for a tiny price in "invasion" of our privacy.
But I'm not as hard on Perry as many here. It's possible the girl had mentioned some of the social services contacts to him, leading him to think things were already being looked into. And he said Nixzmary ran to her mother, as soon as her mother appeared. Was Perry supposed to stop her? And what good would it really have done if he HAD taken some action? There had already been multiple social service and law enforcement contacts with this family, in one case including a doctor who examined her, sewed up a gash on her head, and told authorities he saw no evidence of abuse! The supervisor at the child welfare agency who was assigned to Nixzmary's case had resigned recently -- formallly just a few days ago, but he hadn't been in to work since Dec. 9, when he was discovered to have altered his files to cover up his ineptitude in the case of ANOTHER child who was killed a few months ago. Frankly, I think the chances that Perry's putting in a call would have resulted in a different outcome are slim, and as someone who lives in that neighborhood where a lot of this sort of stuff goes on, he's probably all too familiar with how useless the authorities are in carrying out effective interventions.
I'm not so sure about that. Who would get paid? The biological father is nowhere to be found. The mother and stepfather are the perps, and no court's going award THEM any payment. The grandmother spent time staying at the family's home, and still saw no reason not to go home to Puerto Rico without making a report to authorities -- if she didn't detect an urgent problem, how can she claim that CPS workers should have detected it during their short visits?
What I want to know more about is the sorry excuse for a doctor, who examined Nixzmary after she'd "fallen down the stairs", sewed up a gash in her head, and told authorities he saw no evidence of abuse. He was obviously supposed to be looking for evidence of abuse, and in a child who's being beaten regularly there are virtually always clear signs of multiple injuries in various stages of healing. Of course, if he didn't bother X-raying her, he would have missed old fractures, but under the circumstances, she certainly should have been X-rayed from head to toe. That doctor's report was probably the single biggest contributor to Nixzmary's death after her monstrous mother and stepfather. Social workers and police officers don't generally fell qualified to challenge a conclusion like that, coming from a doctor who has examined and treated the child.
Gov'Shrinker--
I never compared sterilizing these to monster parents to the third Reich, no, when someone responded to my original post, they said that what I had said, was hitlerian.
It is a fact, that there are individuals down in NYC and its surrounding wastelands, that don't have the smarts and common sense to raise a child. Like I tell my wife, who is originally from the Bronx, I wouldn't bring a dog up in any of those wastelands.
In closing, my heart goes out to that little girl who was murdered by her evil parents. They should be shot or hanged for what they did.
Most disturbing post i have ever read on FR....... i'm not actually angry...i'm numb that humans can be so cruel...not much else to post...except, i would gladly put these two so called parents in one of Saddam's plastic shredders...on low, low, low speed...increased torque, mind you...no jamming.
The reason these things happen is that we live in a society that places very little value on children. We condone the hitting of a child because it's discipline (I always hear, "Who are we to tell parents how to discipline their child?")
Who cares if a child is beaten--it's discipline, right? We as a society condone this behavior. Why are we so shocked that this little girl was starved? How many times have we heard stories like, "If you're bad, you're going to bad without supper?" Withholding food from a child as a form of punishment? What sadist thought this up? I am deeply angered by what happened to this innocent child, but when we as a society look away and condone the physical punishment of children, what else do we really expect?
My God. That just gives me chills.
I wish I could leave work right now and go give my daughter a big hug.
"Who cares if a child is beaten--it's discipline, right?"
Troll, there's a difference between discipline and abuse.
Spanking a kid on the backside with four or five quick swats gets the idea across.
BEATING is something else entirely.
"Who cares if a child is beaten--it's discipline, right?" -dalcanton at post 87.
Check this one out.
Money quote above is a good synopsis of their entire post.
Check it out and see.
Check out post 87.
WOW!! I guess I am abusive in your book. For the last 2 of 3 nights the 4yo went to bed without supper because she refused to eat what was on her plate and I didn't hop up and make her a hot dog. You're painting with a very broad brush. Sometimes punishment fits the crime! Mind you, I am not excusing this girls murderer at ALL, but you can't equate sending a kid to bed without supper to torture and murder.
To the liberal mind, it makes perfect sense.
Why, if you spank your kid to telling you to "f-off", you're torturing them!
Of course, not disciplining your kids can get you an adult much like Stanley Williams -a murdering useless scumbucket who finally met his fate.
Of course, he and other criminals like him are perfect Dem voter candidates, so the Dems naturally want more like them.
You live in a different society than I do.
Not properly disciplining a child is a form of abuse too.
If you are or ever become a parent I feel sorry for your kids.
Do we have a FLANK TWO?????
Dalcanton lives in a liberal festerhole.
Which explains their false premise post.
And we "bad guys" are blaming the "victim." That poor torturing man, however did he learn this behavior? What ills of society caused him to be this way?? UGH! Makes me sick.
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