Posted on 01/20/2006 10:13:06 AM PST by beaversmom
(CBS) NEW YORK A pool of three reporters from a group that included the Post, Newsday, the Times, the Daily News, and myself, for Channel 2, sat with Cesar Rodriguez in a small office at Rikers Island late this afternoon for what turned out to be a wide-ranging interview, centered around him trying to make people understand why he did what he did to Nixzmary.
Since I spent a large chunk of the day at another part of Rikers trying to speak with Nixzmary's mother, I was not one of the three reporters in the room. But we all met immediately afterwards to compare notes.
"He wasn't disheveled," Lisa Muòoz of the Daily News said. "But he did seem...languid. Low key. His responses were measured. And, we spoke in English."
A corrections officer with a video camera recorded his transport to and from the room. If this guy tripped or fell, they wanted to show it was an accident.
Rodriguez, though, said he hasn't entirely escaped injury since his arrest. "I got hit by other prisoners when I was in holding in Brooklyn, going to court. And I got sucker punched by another prisoner in Bellevue."
He said a guard at Bellevue threw a copy of yesterday's Daily News front page at him and said, "Are you happy now?"
"I have a lot of guilt. I'm sorry for all that happened. I have a problem with my emotions. It builds up; and I hold it all in. I emotionally just burst."
He wanted us to understand it was Nixzmary's fault: she just wouldn't listen. He ran through a litany of what he called her "mischief."
She cut her brothers' and sister's hair. She threw her mother's books. She bothered the cat. She threw the kids' toys. She stole money. She burned the 6-month-old baby's leg with a lighter.
"I hit her like this --- " he shows a fist --- "but not with the knuckles. On the legs. In her back."
Asked about how she once got a black eye, he said, "I probably used too much force."
"One time, the 1-year-old put his hand in a bottle of bleach. I smacked his hand. He never did it again. If a 1-year-old could learn, why not her?"
About tying her to the chair: "I used a rope. But when I saw it left marks, I tried to make it not hurt. I used duct tape, and put it over her arms over a long sweater, so it wouldn't mark her. And next to the chair, I put a table, with a pillow, so she could rest her head while she slept.
"I told her (tying her to the chair) was for her own good.
"I would have to lock her in that room at night, to protect myself and the kids. So I could sleep."
He denied abusing her sexually.
"I'm a good father. I took them shopping. I took this family in, and I fed them.
"When I was growing up, my mother used to beat me with a belt until she couldn't raise her arm anymore."
Rodriguez says the man he thought was his father turned out to be his stepfather, "but he never hit me."
He said that he got so exasperated with Nixzmary, he wanted to give her away, "leave her at the precinct."
When the caseworkers from the city's Child Services agency finally arrived, after the school called the child abuse hot line, Rodriguez says he asked them and the school for advice on how to handle Nixzmary, but didn't get it (ACS says they will not comment on anything Rodriguez says in jail). He says he told a female caseworker he wanted to give her to her maternal grandmother in Puerto Rico, but that the caseworker told him, "No, don't do it. You're going to regret it. She's going to end up hating you."
Rodriguez says things in the home took a final, worse turn after a series of bad events: Nixzmary's mother miscarried; he lost his job as a security guard after being told to take a few days with his wife; they couldn't get the kids anything for Christmas; the cable was cut; he was home all the time, and Nixzmary's behavior was ticking him off.
"I felt like this" (he clenches a fist, and brings it from afar, to his chest).
"Everything was closing in."
He beat Nixzmary more, he admits, but nothing changed. He said she would be silent, mostly, during the beatings, like she was trying to defy or stand up to him.
He didn't want to go into details about the murder -- "I'm on a hot seat" -- but says he talks to her ghost at night: "I ask her why she had to put me through so much trouble." He looks down, wrings his hands, and cries for the first time. "I tell her that I'm sorry, and that I love her."
Other related threads:
EVIL STEPDAD'S SADISTIC RAGE - 7 year old Nixzmary , Bound, beaten, starved, killed (TORTURED) January 13, 2006 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557676/posts
TWO MONSTERS (Nixzaliz Brown will try to use the bogus Hedda Nussbaum defense) January 13, 2006 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1558834/posts?page=1
TRAGIC CHILD TOLD ME HER SAD SECRET: 'I WISH THEY WERE DEAD' (7 Year old Nixzmary Brown) January 14,2006 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557951/posts
HEADS MUST ROLL (killing of Nixzmary--fourth child to die in two months) January 14, 2006 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1558043/posts
'I WAS AFRAID HE'D HIT ME,' SAYS MOM OF HORROR NIGHT 'MISCHIEVOUS' NIXZMARY DIED January 16, 2006 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1558833/posts?page=9
ISLE VISIT A BRIGHT SPOT IN GIRL'S LIFE (Nixzmary Brown) January 16, 2006 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1558835/posts
NOW AT REST, 'NIXZMARY IS SURROUNDED BY LOVE AND BEYOND THE TOUCH OF EVIL' January 19, 2006 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1561212/posts
Death penalty. Now. The real punishment will start after he's executed.
ping
Well that settles matters, let him go.
"I'm on a hot seat"
No, but you need to be. Ride the lightning.
General population.
Hissed the demon who lives inside the man
Yep, no extra protections. Let him reap what he sowed. Maybe when he's the receiving end of the punches and kicks he will get it.
Cesar Rodriguez, you are a vile and dispicable human being.
All parents grow frustrated with their kid(s) behavior, but we don't tie them to chairs and beat them to death. And news flash...kids do grow up eventually.
The fact is you beat up and killed a little girl simply because you were frustrated with your own pathetic life.
God forgive me, but you should have taken your own life instead and left this little girl alone.
I won't even get into how I feel about her "mother" for fear of being banned from FR.
"Death penalty. Now."
Curtis Sliwa was talking about this man's attitude this morning. I really didn't believe my ears. After reading this, well, what can I say? You are right. This guy doesn't even deserve a trial, merely death.
Well, by all means, he SAID he was sorry!
What's wrong with you people?? Let him go,
he'll never do anything like this again!
After all, it was the GIRL's fault!
/sarc off >:-(
Death by injection is too good for people like this.
Grrrr.
"I won't even get into how I feel about her "mother" for fear of being banned from FR."
And don't tell me the rest of that family didn't know what was going on. They should ALL be in jail. From Andrea Peyser's column of the other day there were very bad vibes at the funeral between the public and the many, many extended family members there.
I sure hope he suffers a bit before he gets his head beat in by some bubba in prison....don't want it to be too easy on him....
good grief, he blames the little girl?! what a total disgusting full of slime skid mark this waste of skin is......
Better post with actual links and more related links:
EVIL STEPDAD'S SADISTIC RAGE - 7 year old Nixzmary , Bound, beaten, starved, killed (TORTURED)
January 13, 2006
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557676/posts
TWO MONSTERS (Nixzaliz Brown will try to use the bogus Hedda Nussbaum defense)
January 13, 2006
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1558834/posts?page=1
TRAGIC CHILD TOLD ME HER SAD SECRET: 'I WISH THEY WERE DEAD' (7 Year old Nixzmary Brown)
January 14, 2006
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557951/posts
HEADS MUST ROLL (killing of Nixzmary--fourth child to die in two months)
January 14, 2006
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557951/posts
'I WAS AFRAID HE'D HIT ME,' SAYS MOM OF HORROR NIGHT 'MISCHIEVOUS' NIXZMARY DIED
January 16, 2006
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1558833/posts?page=9
ISLE VISIT A BRIGHT SPOT IN GIRL'S LIFE (Nixzmary Brown)
January 16, 2006
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1558835/posts
Mayor Makes Pledge of Accountability in Girl's Death
January 17, 2006
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560177/posts
7-Year-Old Beaten to Death at Home Mourned
January 18, 2006
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560538/posts
NOW AT REST, 'NIXZMARY IS SURROUNDED BY LOVE AND BEYOND THE TOUCH OF EVIL'
January 19, 2006
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1561212/posts
ping
If this isn't an argument for forced sterilization of such monsters, I don't know what is.
Of course. They all stood back and allowed this to happen.
*rest of this post deleted before I'm banned*
i can't believe he used the "she just wouldn't listen" excuse
He comes from that category of people who believe life. . .is all about 'them'.
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