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borgslayer Rear Admiral
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Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:31 pm Another sad story |
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Quote: | A day after the bruised body of a 7-year-old girl was discovered in a blood-stained Brooklyn apartment, city officials revealed new and harrowing details of her short life yesterday, as well as repeated missed opportunities to save it. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg declared, "We, as a city, have failed this child."
The body of the girl, Nixzmary Brown, was found Wednesday at her mother's home in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Investigators said that the girl's stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, had banged her head against a faucet in the bathtub and that they were trying to determine whether that was what killed her.
Nixzmary was the fourth child in two months to die while in the custody of parents who had had contact with the city's Administration for Children's Services. "It is obvious they did not pursue this case with the intensity that they should have," Mr. Bloomberg said of the agency.
Agency officials said it would immediately begin a review of every open case involving a child who is the subject of an abuse or neglect complaint, roughly 8,000 to 10,000 cases.
Interviews with school and child welfare officials revealed just how close Nixzmary had been to getting help.
Education and teachers' union officials said that school staff members had noticed that the girl was missing classes, appeared malnourished and suffered an eye injury, and that the staff members had notified state and city child welfare officials repeatedly. In response, the city agency workers talked with Nixzmary and her parents, visited her home and took her to a doctor, who said her injuries were consistent with falling down.
Finally, in the crucial weeks before her death, child welfare workers were unable to get into her home and did not take the necessary steps to get a warrant.
"We considered asking the family court for a warrant to have the police come with us to make sure we gained entry, but at no time did we get the warrant," said John B. Mattingly, the commissioner of children's services. "People made judgments about whether this was an emergency, and those judgments turn out to be wrong."
Mr. Rodriguez was arraigned yesterday with the girl's mother, Nixzaliz Santiago, in Criminal Court in Brooklyn. Mr. Rodriguez was charged with murder and endangering the welfare of a child. The mother was charged with manslaughter, reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child. Neither entered a plea.
In the hearing, a prosecutor described a frightful sequence of abuse, saying that the girl had been "systematically tortured" for several weeks.
The girl was not quite four feet tall and weighed 36 pounds when she died, the officials said.
The girl had been tied up by her stepfather, she was denied food and her head was submerged under water, the prosecutor said. The final, fatal beating apparently came after she took yogurt from the refrigerator, the prosecutor said.
"There was barely a spot on this child that was not marked by her parents," said the prosecutor, Cathy Dagonese, of the Brooklyn district attorney's office. Describing the moments before Nixzmary died, Ms. Dagonese said Nixzmary had been lying on the floor, naked and unconscious, as Ms. Santiago stood by.
Officials of the Administration for Children's Services said they had visited Ms. Santiago at home in May and in December after officials at the girl's school, Public School 256, had complained. In May, they reported that she was missing classes, and in December that she had bruises around her eye.
After their first visit, caseworkers decided that Ms. Santiago was overwhelmed by her six children. They believed they had persuaded her to return Nixzmary to school and closed the case, Mr. Mattingly said.
An official of the United Federation of Teachers said a union staff member at the school faxed a report to the child welfare agency saying that Nixzmary was malnourished. Child welfare officials said they were aware of concerns about the girl's health and had discussed them with her mother.
On Dec. 1, the child welfare agency received the report of bruises around the girl's eye. At that point, Mr. Mattingly said, a team including two police detectives was sent to the home. A doctor was also called to examine Nixzmary's black eye. Mr. Mattingly said that the family told the team Nixzmary had hurt herself in a fall and that the doctor "confirmed for us that the injuries appeared to have occurred the way the child and her parents had said it had happened."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/13/nyregion/13child.html |
The girl who died was starved..when she ate a yoghurt without permission because she was starving her stepfather tied her to a chair and beat her to death.
I am saddened and angry at the same time.
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Republican_Man STV's Premier Conservative
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Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:33 pm |
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O'Reilly just reported on this two segments ago...Yeah, this is sickening and sad. Horrifying. The government really failed on this one. There were so many warnings for it...she could have been saved.
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borgslayer Rear Admiral
Joined: 27 Aug 2003 Posts: 2646 Location: Las Vegas
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Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:44 pm |
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The saddest thing is many children in the U.S. are in these kinds of situations where they are being abused by parents or people who adopt them.
A story like this was here in Vegas months ago. Where a las vegas woman was force to give her child because the Child Services believed she was an unfit mother. Anyways after her baby was taken away it was placed in a foster home where the baby was neglected by the foster parents and died 2 weeks into foster care.
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Republican_Man STV's Premier Conservative
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Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:57 pm |
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Horrible.
This is somewhat unrelated, but have you heard about the situation in Vermont right now? Let's lay down the story:
Girl, starting when she was 6, for four years until she was ten, was raped by this man. Judge [I forget his first name] Cashman gives the rapist SIXTY days in jail! SIXTY DAYS! That's it!
His reason, literally, was that he doesn't believe in punishment. He doesn't believe in retribution for his crimes. He doesn't believe that HE, the RAPIST, should get punished and not helped, because current statute in Vermont is that you can't get rehabilitation in jail.
The guy's been determined to be a "low risk" offender, but I don't believe that one bit. I mean, look at him! He raped a girl, starting when she was SIX, continuously FOR FOUR YEARS! Outrageous! And yet he only gets sixty days in prison?
The government has even now said that they would let him get rehabilitation while in prison, and is hoping that the judge will change his decision, which he can still do, and I hope he does.
But either way, he needs to be impeached. He can't stay, even if he does end up increasing the punishment 25-fold (to at least 25 years).
I think the evil man needs to get LIFE in prison for what he did! How could this judge not be thinking about JUSTICE for the child--the person for whom the trial was for! The judge wants him to get rehabilitated? What about the little girl! She's going to go through rehabilitation for the rest of her life now!
...I've lost much faith in our justice system in recent days. Just look at all the crimes against children, lack of protection, lack of punishment, etc.
Vermont, as well as every state in the nation, needs to sign into law at least some form of Jessica's law. Colorado's up in the air about it, and I do hope it passes some form of Jessica's Law here, because if you look at what can happen, as did in this Vermont case...wow.
SIXTY DAYS for raping a girl FOUR YEARS, starting when she was SIX. Wow! What happened to the punishment fitting the crime!
(Just to say, I know I used caps lock in a bunch of places, but that was intentional. I was yelling.)
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nadia cookie
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Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:27 pm |
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This is just sick! I can't belive that people would do this to their own children.
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Birdy Socialist
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Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:46 am |
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This is so sad Omg.
Over here in Holland we have a similar story, a 6 year old girl was smothered, her mother and a girlfriend have been arrested.
And another story that's been going on now; a woman killed 4 of her newborn children (they were born at different times, so this has been going on for a while)... so sad.
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Sat Jan 14, 2006 9:08 am |
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Yeah, in Illinois we have Megan's law.
This is incredibly disgusting. I mean, who could do that to a child?
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Leo Wyatt Sweetest Angel
Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 19045 Location: Investigating A Crime Scene. What did Quark do this time?
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Sat Jan 14, 2006 9:14 am |
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Monsters! Kill an innocent and precious child... Saddens me... Really sad
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magenta Commander
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Sat Jan 14, 2006 8:40 pm |
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In Australia there was a case of a young boy who was beaten and tortured,burned with cigarettes and kept in a box in a cupboard.His mother and boyfriend were doing this and living in a caravan/park.The atrocity was discovered when a neighbour in the park walked in while they were tending to his wounds.He was standing on a table,his leg was broken and had healed in a bad way.The good samaritan snatched up the boy and ran off with him and called the police!
He now lives with his real dad and has all these anger/behaviour issues(understandably)while the boyfriend/mother are in jail!
She sends him letters telling him she loves him ETC!!!!
How can claim to love her child if she paticipated/allowed her boyfriend to do these things to him!
I have nothing but bad feelings toward them and hope they are in jail for life!
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Republican_Man STV's Premier Conservative
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Sat Jan 14, 2006 9:20 pm |
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Agreed! That's horrifying, sad, and madenning!
How could people do such things to CHILDREN!
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Birdy Socialist
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Sun Jan 15, 2006 12:04 pm |
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^ Those people just have a disorder of some kind. If you're in full control of yourself, like most of us, you wouldn't do such a thing. Clearly there's something mental going on with these people.
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Republican_Man STV's Premier Conservative
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Sun Jan 15, 2006 12:31 pm |
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Here's the disorder: Evility. If that's not a word, I don't care. Their disorder is that they're evil. Some of them could be insane, but you can't always pin a disorder on it, when all they are is simply evil.
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Cathexis The Angel of Avalon
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Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:48 am |
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Wow.........what can I say?
Absolutely dreadful.....
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Admiral Dani�l Dutch Admiral
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Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:29 pm |
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So sad storys, and we can't do anything then give our comments, some people are just not ok in their minds.
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Republican_Man STV's Premier Conservative
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Sun Jan 22, 2006 1:53 pm |
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Last night, on the ride home from my Speech and Debate tournament, my friend told me a story that you may have heard about. It's about a girl named Jeanie. He learned the story in his AP Psychology class. It's perhaps the worst child abuse story I have EVER heard.
Here's what happened (I don't know when it happened, however):
One day a police officer was on patrol and saw a house with bars on the windows. He then decided to enter the house.
After he pulled over he went up to the door, knocked on it, and entered. At some point he noticed a closed and locked door to a room. He asked if he could go into it, and the guy said no.
So, a few days later, he came back with a warrent. The police stormed the room, and what did they find?
A 13 year old girl tied to a chair in this room, alone. How many years was she tied to that chair? 13. Yes, my friends. A girl was tied to a chair in this room from age 0 to age 13.
I ask myself, "How in the world could this kind of a thing happen?"
It's absolutely horrifying. I was just amazed. Horrified. For her entire life until she was 13, all she knew was captivity by her father...How could such a thing happen? How could someone be SO blatently EVIL! It's horrifying.
And just think of what her dad might have done to her while there? Maybe a million rapes, beatings--I don't know. There's no limit to what this man would have done to her...I just can't believe that such things can happen in the world--and in America in particular.
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Founder Dominion Leader
Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 12755 Location: Gamma Quadrant
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Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:02 pm |
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Yeah, you're describing one of the feral kids.
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