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January 12, 2006 -- A bright and talented 7-year-old girl was beaten to death yesterday in her Brooklyn apartment — where she was often tied to a wooden chair — even though child-welfare agents were already probing allegations of abuse, authorities said yesterday. Nixzmary Brown was unconscious and unresponsive when she was found by her mother yesterday morning in their Bedford-Stuyvesant home. Police said the tiny girl was found face up on the floor and had multiple bruises and injuries that were "in various stages of healing." A police source said Nixzmary had bruises on her wrists and ankles, apparently...

Hedda Nussbaum, today, age 61 PUBLIC LIVES For a Notorious Victim, Some Things Never Heal By COREY KILGANNON Published: February 10, 2004 White Plains HEDDA NUSSBAUM opened her office door and, slightly hunched and still limping from the nightmare she once lived through, led a visitor to a conference room at My Sisters' Place here, a center for battered women, where she now works as a paralegal. "I'm still not happy with my nose - I had a really nice nose," she said at one point. "But I can't go through any more surgeries." That would be the five cosmetic...