The entire extended family is now coming out of the woodwork including the "real father" who we now find out met the mother in a shelter when she was pregnant with this doomed child. He is not her birth father.
He has not been heard from in 5 years. Nor has he had contact with the 2 children he did father with this woman.
I think the whole bunch smells money and its hard for me to feel sorry for any in this case.
Mark my words...the city is facing a huge payoff in this case and the poor little child was payday.
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.