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MY daughter is 19 months old. She weighs 26 pounds. Nixzmary Brown was 7 years old. She weighed 36 pounds. If she had not been murdered by a blunt trauma to her skull in the Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment that was at once her home and her torture chamber (complete with child's chair with ropes), Nixzmary might have died of starvation sooner or later. It appears her torturer, rapist and murderer was her stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez. Of course, Rodriguez could have done none of these things to Nixzmary had her mother, Nixzaliz, done something to stop it. Twenty years ago, the murder...

UNREPENTANT: Joel Steinberg, convicted of murdering his adopted 6-year-old daughter in 1989, hangs out at a Harlem community center where he volunteers. Photo: NY Post: Susan May Tell Joel Steinberg is feeling quite at home in Harlem.... Steinberg, convicted of beating to death his 6-year- old adopted daughter, Lisa, in 1989......recently held a job installing floors, but quit after injuring his knee...... ...........an angry and unrepentant Steinberg spoke to The Post on the steps of the Civic Association Serving Harlem (CASH), a job-training program across from his home where he volunteers. Maintaining his innocence, he also points to Lisa's death...

Child killer Joel Steinberg has been living in a Times Square hotel ever since the sadistic sicko's big mouth got him kicked out of a Harlem halfway house, The Post has learned. The camera-shy Steinberg only rarely emerges from his $110-per-night room at the Hotel Carter on West 43rd Street, where he has been holed up for nearly two weeks. But Steinberg, 63, left the hotel yesterday morning to visit his parole officer. During the 10-block walk, he chatted up a photographer who snapped his picture, saying the media has for years inaccurately and unfairly reported his brutal killing of...

Don't light up that cigarette. Send it to Joel Steinberg! If you have any doubts, read the dire warning on the side of the pack. Who deserves that more, you or the man who beat little Lisa Steinberg to death? Her killer is back among us and every decent soul in the city is sickened by the photos of him walking about at liberty. Ah, but note one small detail: In the majority of the photos, Steinberg has a cigarette in hand. He may no longer be freebasing cocaine, but he is still puffing away at tobacco. And this presents...

After 17 years in prison, sadistic child killer Joel Steinberg insists he was not to blame for the death of his illegally adopted daughter Lisa — and claims he was a worthy parent. "I was a good father," Steinberg said in an interview with New York magazine. "Of course, I'm sorry my daughter's dead. But the medical reports showed no 'present' or 'historical' fractures or wounds. That means no history of abuse. Got it?" "What about the people at school, her friends on West 10th Street?" he asked John Lombardi, the writer who scored the interview. "How come nobody saw...

--SNIP-- It is commonly acknowledged that Steinberg is a monster, a subhuman who committed one of the most vicious, heinous and atrocious acts one can perpetrate. He committed brutality against a child who was totally incapable of defending herself. --SNIP-- Oren Spiegler Upper Saint Clair, Pa. ***** If there is a God in heaven, Lisa will forever have azaleas to give her the peace she never had in her short, sad life — and Joel Steinberg will rot in hell for eternity. Richard Dubetsky Houston, Texas ***** Only in America can a man who was convicted of beating to death...

Child Killer Gets TV JobIt doesn't seem like 17 years have passed since Joel Steinberg was convicted of killing little Lisa, his 6-year-old illegally adopted daughter. Steinberg, the once prominent New York attorney, is scheduled for release next June after serving two thirds of his prison sentence, his maximum term under New York State law. Back in 1987 the Steinberg case shocked the nation. It isn't every day that a well-to-do Manhattan attorney is accused of torturing his entire family for perhaps years, eventually leading to the murder of his daughter. It was society's first realization that child abuse resulting...

July 1, 2004 -- Sadistic child-slayer Joel Steinberg sauntered out of an upstate prison in style yesterday, sliding into a chauffeured stretch limo that broke speed limits and wove wildly through traffic as it raced back to New York City with a mass of media in hot pursuit. When the worn and graying Steinberg, 63, arrived in Manhattan yesterday afternoon, he immediately was taken to the West Harlem headquarters of the Fortune Society, a prisoner-rehabilitation group, where he is expected to stay as he is counseled about re-entry into society after serving nearly 17 years for fatally beating his illegally...

On the eve of Joel Steinberg's parole from prison, the foreman of the jury that put him behind bars thinks the cold-hearted child killer should rot there until his 25 years are up. "It was a truly reprehensible thing he did, and the penalty he's thus paid is not sufficient," ex-juror Jeremiah Cole told the Daily News yesterday. "The judge in the case recommended he serve the full sentence and I thought, under the circumstances, that was an excellent recommendation." Steinberg, 63, will be freed tomorrow from the Southport Correctional Facility in upstate Chemung County after serving the required two-thirds...

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...

<p>ALBANY — Joel Steinberg was denied parole yesterday for the fifth time, but the infamous child killer could nonetheless be freed by June 30, when he will have served two-thirds of his maximum sentence.</p> <p>In again denying him early release, the three-person parole panel cited Steinberg's "inexplicable disregard for your victim, that little girl, that evening."</p>

Though still in prison, Joel Steinberg has a job lined up with a cable TV show in New York City. He qualified for this position--as field producer and perhaps as an on-camera interviewer--by committing a ghastly killing. He beat to death his illegally adopted 6-year-old daughter in 1987. The story hit the city hard. For almost a year, people placed flowers outside the brownstone where Lisa was killed. Soon they will able to watch the killer try to parlay her death into a TV career. The recycling of perpetrators is simply part of the media game now. New York Times...

Child killer Joel Steinberg has a cable-TV job waiting for him if he is released on parole next summer, his civil attorney said yesterday. Lawyer Darnay Hoffman, who is general counsel for the show, said he has arranged for Steinberg to work on "New York Confidential," a program planned for a leased-access Time Warner cable channel. Steinberg, 62, is serving 8 to 25 years for fatally striking his illegally adopted daughter, 6-year-old Lisa, in his Greenwich Village apartment in November 1987.

<p>Infamous child killer Joel Steinberg is getting ready for his close-up - he has a TV job waiting for him when he gets out of prison.</p> <p>Steinberg, the abusive monster who became the city's most hated man, will go to work as a reporter and field producer for a new leased-access cable show called "New York Confidential" when he's released next year, his lawyer said yesterday.</p>