Stepfather guilty in abused child's death

[Try2Win]

NEW YORK (AP) -- A jury convicted a man of manslaughter Tuesday in the death of his 7-year-old stepdaughter after a trial that detailed years of horrific abuse and cast a spotlight on the city's troubled child welfare agency.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/18/child.starved.ap/index.html

[Roamer]

All he got was manslaughter?????

[Try2Win]

All he got was manslaughter?????



First-degree manslaughter carries a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison; Rodriguez, 29, could have spent the rest of his life in prison if he'd been convicted of murder.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/18/child.starved.ap/index.html

[Ross]

Manslaughter,what a joke,he should get the DP,oh thats right New York dont have the DP.How sad.

[Roamer]

Prison is where he belongs for the rest of his miserable life. This baby suffered terribly, and her mother belongs in prison right beside him.

[Try2Win]

Prison is where he belongs for the rest of his miserable life. This baby suffered terribly, and her mother belongs in prison right beside him.

I did not watch this trial or follow this trial. I just check CNN.com regularly for news stories and remembered seeing this forum here for Nixzmary Brown.

[Roamer]

It wasn't televised that we know of T2W, but many of us have been following it, because this poor little girl was so terribly abused by both of them.

Thank you for the update, even though he didn't get what he deserved.

[KittyMom]

This was one I just couldn't follow daily. This poor baby never had a chance. That walking stepsperm and walking uterus that birthed her should never breathe fresh air again. The things they did to that poor baby...:1187603408.CR.Mothe.

:1222423: for Nixzmary

[Try2Win]

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Brown&GSfn=Nixzmary&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=13013774&

[gramvof14]

I am so angry, I guess it wasn't a big deal that the mother and stepfather tortured and murdered that poor child. UNBELIEVEABLE:shock:

Nixzmary Brown RIP:1222423::1222423:

[LiveLaughLuv]

I am so angry, I guess it wasn't a big deal that the mother and stepfather tortured and murdered that poor child. UNBELIEVEABLE:shock:

Nixzmary Brown RIP:1222423::1222423:

I am too.

Mom has yet to have her trial. Could be she will get LWOP! Hopefully, since it was she who was ultimately responsible for her death! She was supposed to protect that angel and didn't! The defense attorney did his job. His claim and the claim of the jailhouse informant was the mother continued beating Nixmary after the step-father walked away! It was Nixaliz who struck the fatal blow and didn't call for help!

The jury didn't see this as depraved indifference, they saw this as reckless, hence the 1st Degree manslaughter charge. Along with that, he also was convicted of unlawful imprisonment, criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a minor.

Rodriguez faces a maximum of 28 years in prison. Not enough prison time. He will be out before we know it, then what other little girl will he abuse. I think the jury didn't send the correct message.

I wonder what happened to the law they wanted passed, which states, if a child is abused/tortured and the end result is death, it is automatic LWOP!

Rest in Peace Nixmary! :1222423:

[Roamer]

This little girl touched so many of us after we heard the horrors of her short life. My heart still aches for her, but at least she's found the peace she never had on this earth. :1222423:

[Sumanadevii]

I don't feel like justice was served with this man. He deserves the DP for what he did to his poor child. Let him serve his little sentence. I hope Big Brother is there to take care of him. His rebirth will be one of hell. Karma kicks.

[Roamer]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4585500

NY Stepdad Gets 29 Years in Girl's Death

NYC Man Gets Maximum 29 Years in Killing of His 7-Year-Old Stepdaughter
By ADAM GOLDMAN Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK Apr 3, 2008 (AP) The Associated Press
. Rodriguez was sentenced to a maximum of 29 years in prison Thursday, April 3, 2008, in the shocking death of his 7-year-old stepdaughter, who was bound to a chair, starved and forced to urinate in a litter box before she was killed with a fatal blow to the head.
(AP Photos)A man was sentenced to the maximum 29 years in prison Thursday in the death of his 7-year-old stepdaughter, who was bound to a chair, starved and forced to urinate in a litter box before she was killed by a fatal blow to the head.

The judge handed down the sentence after a prosecutor said that 29-year-old Cesar Rodriguez was "devoid of all morality and inhumanity" and that he never expressed remorse for the death of Nixzmary Brown.

After Rodriguez was sentenced, someone in the court room shouted, "I hope you die in jail." Another cried out, "Murderer."

In a short statement, Rodriguez told the judge: "I loved Nixzmary. I can honestly say that I'm being accused of something I didn't do." His lawyer blamed Nixzmary's mother for the little girl's death, echoing the defense that he used at the trial this year.

Jeffrey Schwartz said his client had been unjustly portrayed as a monster and was in fact an "angel" who tried to do the right thing when it came to his family.

An angel??? :mad:

[LiveLaughLuv]

Too bad Cesar Rodriguez couldn't get an even worse stentence
By JANE RIDLEY
DAILY NEWS COLUMNIST

Friday, April 4th 2008, 4:00 AM


Marilyn Church

Minutes before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Hall gave Cesar Rodriguez the max, we heard this devil - steadfastly silent throughout his two-month trial - finally speak aloud.

Nixzmary Brown
Minutes before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Hall gave Cesar Rodriguez the max, we heard this devil - steadfastly silent throughout his two-month trial - finally speak aloud.

His lawyers clearly told him to keep his mouth shut, but he went ahead anyway.

Wearing baggy jeans and a fleece, he lifted his freshly-shaven head to reveal a surly gaze.

"I am sorry for causing emotional pain or distorted memories about the child," muttered the killer, his barely audible words inarticulate and jumbled.

Emotional pain? Distorted memories? Talk about a monumental understatement. Don't tell me this poor excuse for a human being believes this is all he has done.

What about the dead little girl lying in her grave, her battered corpse decomposing in the ground? What about the starvation, humiliation and torture he inflicted on her during her tragically short life?

Rodriguez reassured us he is "not mad with anybody" and prays, "This life will give me another chance."

Like we care! Like he gave his stepdaughter a second chance, ignoring her moans before she took her dying breath on the cold wooden floor?

Thank God Hall saw his lack of remorse and acted on it.

Thank God that, unlike the jury which shamefully found Rodriguez guilty of manslaughter instead of murder, she didn't sell out or compromise.

Tellingly, the jurors who admitted to reluctantly convicting him of the lesser count showed up in court. They needed closure.

Juror Barbara Burns told me how she's had terrible nightmares since agreeing to a compromise to avoid a hung jury or mistrial.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/04/04/2008-04-04_too_bad_cesar_rodriguez_couldnt_get_an_e-1.html

I listened to this one juror speak. I was so angered at their compromise. I don't understand how these jurors convicted on the lesser charge when they saw for themselves this POS had no remorse.

On this same link, there is a poll, if you agree with the manslaughter conviction and not murder. An astonishing 93% voted no, they did not agree with the manslaughter conviction.

So what in the world was this jury thinking. That one juror claims they compromised out of fear of a mistrial? What in the world!

Since this new legislation had been passed and named "Nixzmary's Law", this POS should have been made an example as well as mommy dearest when her trial comes up. I think the jurors should have made a statement which would have backed Nixzmary's law. How disrespectful to Nixzmary's life and memory. I wish the judge could have thrown out what the jurors convicted on, too bad.

The only comfort is that this judge saw through him and gave him the maximum allowed, 29 years. Still he will do 2/3 of that and be out in no time. Unless another inmate gives him some jailhouse justice and takes his life, (which I honestly believe may happen) then and only then will Nixzmary get her justice...

[Roamer]

The only comfort is that this judge saw through him and gave him the maximum allowed, 29 years. Still he will do 2/3 of that and be out in no time. Unless another inmate gives him some jailhouse justice and takes his life, (which I honestly believe may happen) then and only then will Nixzmary get her justice...

We can only hope.