MURDER VICTIM. STARVED, UNLOVED AND BEATEN TO DEATH. ON JANUARY 11th., 2006, 7 YEAR OLD, NIXZMARY BROWN, WAS MURDERED BY HER STEPFATHER, CESAR RODRIGUEZ, FOR TAKING A STRAWBERRY JELLO PUDDING SNACK FROM HER FAMILY'S FRIDGE AND OVER A BROKEN COMPUTER PRINTER.
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NIXZMARY, WHO WAS BEING STARVED AND EMACIATED TO A SKELETAL LOOKING 36 POUNDS, WAS KEPT LOCKED UP IN A DIRTY SPARE ROOM. THAT ROOM BECAME HER PRISON. A ROPE WAS CONNECTED FROM HER DOORKNOB TO ANOTHER DOORKNOB TO PREVENT HER FROM ESCAPING. SHE WAS BOUND LIKE AN ANIMAL. TIED TO A CHAIR FOR 12 HOURS EVERY NIGHT WITH A BUNGEE CORD AROUND HER ANKLE.THE BUNGEE CORD WOULD CUT INTO HER FLESH WHEN SHE TRIED TO MOVE HER LEG. SHE WAS DUCT TAPED TO THE CHAIR AND DUCT TAPE WAS ALSO PLACED OVER HER MOUTH. THE CHAIR WAS TIED TO A BROKEN RADIATOR. NIXZMARY WAS BEATEN EVERYDAY WITH A BLACK LEATHER BELT, RAPED BY HER STEPFATHER IN MORE THAN ONE WAY, FORCED TO USE A CAT LITTER BOX AND EAT CAT FOOD WHILE HER FIVE SIBLINGS WERE ALL WELL FED AND RECEIVED CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. ONE NIGHT, THEY LEFT NIXZMARY, WHO WAS EMACIATED WITH TWO BLACK EYES AND BRUISED, ALONE IN THE HOUSE WHILE THE FAMILY WENT OUT ON A FUN FILLED SHOPPING TRIP TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD TARGET. THEY BOUGHT BRATZ DOLLS, POWER RANGERS, HOT WHEELS, AND PLAY DOUGH. NOTHING WAS BOUGHT FOR NIXZMARY. SNACKS AND TREATS FOR THE OTHER KIDS WERE ALSO PURCHASED. ONE OF THOSE SNACKS WAS JELLO PUDDING. WHEN CESAR RODRIGUEZ DISCOVERED THAT A STRAWBERRY JELLO PUDDING SNACK WAS MISSING AND HIS PRINTER WAS BROKEN, HE STARTED BEATING NIXZMARY IN FRONT OF HER MOTHER. NIXZMARY'S MOM, NIXZALIZ TRIED TO STOP HIM AND SAID, "FORGET IT" BUT HE PICKED UP THE RAIL THIN GIRL AND CARRIED HER KICKING AND SCREAMING INTO THE BATHROOM WHERE HE THREW HER INTO THE BATHTUB LIKE A MAT. HE STRIPED HER NAKED AND AS NIXZMARY SAT THERE, COWERING, WITH HER KNEES UP TO HER FACE AND HER HANDS TO THE SIDES OF HER HEAD, CESAR DUNKED HER HEAD UNDER COLD WATER AS PUNISHMENT AND FATALLY BASHED HER HEAD INTO THE BATHTUB FAUCET. NIXZMARY'S MOTHER TRIED TO STOP HIM BUT HE IGNORED HER AND SHE, HEARING THE BABY CRYING IN THE OTHER ROOM AND FEARING FOR HER OWN SAFETY, WALKED AWAY. AS THE LITTLE GIRL CRIED,"AI, AI, MOMMY, MOMMY!"--MOMMY WAS TO CONCERNED WITH HER OWN HIDE AND NEVER CAME BACK. AFTERWARDS, CESAR PICKED UP NIXZMARY'S NAKED, DRIPPING WET BODY AND THREW HER TO THE FLOOR OF THE SPARE ROOM LIKE A RAG DOLL. HE DUCT TAPED HER MOUTH SO HER MOTHER WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO HEAR HER CRYING AND BEGAN KICKING AND BEATING HER ALL OVER THE BODY. WHEN HE WAS DONE, HE DUMPED HER ATOP A COMFORTER ON THE FLOOR. HER MOTHER CAME IN TO CHECK ON HER. WHEN SHE SAW THAT NIXZMARY WAS ICY COLD, SHE TOOK HER BACK TO THE BATHROOM TO WARM HER UP IN A TUB OF WARM WATER, DRESSED HER IN A WARM SWEATSUIT, WRAPPED HER IN BLANKETS AND LIED IN THE KIDS ROOM NEXT TO THE RADIATOR TO WARM UP. AS HER MOTHER WAS GETTING READY TO LEAVE THE ROOM, NIXZMARY MOANED, "MOMMY, MOMMY, DON'T LEAVE ME"! THOSE WERE NIXZMARY BROWN'S LAST WORDS. HER MOTHER LEFT HER THERE AND WENT TO BE WITH HER HUSBAND IN THE NEXT ROOM. WHILE NIXZMARY LAY THERE ON THE FLOOR GASPING FOR AIR AND TAKING HER LAST BREATHS, HER FAMILY WENT ABOUT THEIR LIVES WHILE THEIR DAUGHTER AND SISTER LAY THERE DYING ON THE FLOOR. NIXZMARY DIED A FEW HOURS LATER FROM BLEEDING ON THE BRAIN. WHEN THE POLICE FOUND HER BROKEN AND BATTERED BODY LYING ON THE FLOOR WITH BLOOD ALL OVER THE ROOM SHE WAS HELD PRISONER IN, THEY DESCRIBED THE SCENE AS A "HOUSE OF HORRORS". THE ACS CASE WORKER WHO WAS ORDERED TO VISIT THE HOME ON JANUARY 10th, DECIDED TO PUT IT OFF UNTIL THE NEXT DAY, JAN.11th. WHEN SHE GOT THERE THE FOLLOWING MORNING, SHE CAME ACROSS POLICE CARS AND WAS TOLD NIXZMARY WAS MURDERED THE DAY BEFORE- THE VERY DAY SHE WAS SUPPOSE TO VISIT! IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO READ NIXZMARY'S FULL STORY, IT'S PRESENTED BELOW. © 2008, 2009
THE SHORT, SAD LIFE OF NIXZMARY BROWN©:
NIXZMARY BROWN WAS A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE GIRL BORN TO A PUERTO RICAN MOTHER, NIXZALIZ SANTIAGO, AND A PAKISTANI FATHER, ABDURRAHMAN MIAN. NIXZMARY'S MOTHER, NIXZALIZ SANTIAGO WAS BORN AND RAISED ON THE ISLAND OF PUERTO RICO. HER FAMILY'S HOME WAS IN AGUADILLA, A SMALL COASTAL TOWN. NIXZALIZ LIVED WITH HER PARENTS AND FOUR BROTHERS. HER FATHER HAD TRIED TO BURN THE HOUSE DOWN AND ENDED UP SERVING TIME IN JAIL. GROWING UP, NIXZALIZ HAD A LEARNING DISABILITY AND LEFT SCHOOL IN THE 8th GRADE. WHEN SHE WAS 17 YEARS OLD SHE LEFT HOME TO BE WITH HER BOYFRIEND. SHE LATER HAD A ROMANCE WITH A MAN NAMED CARLOS BATISTA AND THE TWO HAD A SON TOGETHER, JAVIER BATISTA.
IN 1995, NIXZALIZ LEFT HER FAMILY'S HOME IN PUERTO RICO TO COME TO LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY. ONE DAY AS SHE WAS STANDING OUTSIDE WITH HER AUNT, CARIDAD RAMOS, WATCHING A STREET FIGHT, SHE STRUCK UP A CONVERSATION WITH A PAKISTANI NATIVE NAMED, ABDURRAHMAN MIAN. MIAN WORKED AS A BROOKLYN TAXI DRIVER. THE TWO HAD A RELATIONSHIP AND SHORTLY THEREAFTER, NIXZALIZ BECAME PREGNANT WITH NIXZMARY. WHEN SHE TOLD MIAN SHE WAS HAVING A BABY, HE TOLD HER, "GET AN ABORTION, I'LL GIVE YOU THE MONEY". NIXZALIZ REFUSED, SAYING, "I'M TOTALLY AGAINST ABUSE OF CHILDREN AND ABORTION. I'D RATHER GIVE BIRTH TO THEM THAN ABORT THEM"! WHEN MIAN OFFERED HER FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE BABY, NIXZALIZ REFUSED, WANTING NOTHING MORE TO DO WITH HIM AFTER HE SUGGESTED AN ABORTION.SHORTLY BEFORE NIXZMARY'S BIRTH, MIAN HAD TO GO BACK TO HIS NATIVE PAKISTAN.
NIXZALIZ THEN FLED SO SHE COULD HAVE HER BABY. AT FIRST, SHE AND HER SON, JAVIER, WENT TO A HOMELESS SHELTER NEAR SHEA STADIUM AND FROM THERE THEY WENT TO WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT. IN CONNECTICUT, SHE HAD A ROMANCE WITH A MAN NAMED EDWARD JAMES BROWN. WHEN NIXZMARY'S BIOLOGICAL FATHER, MIAN, RETURNED FROM PAKISTAN, HE FOUND OUT THAT NIXZALIZ WAS NOW WITH ANOTHER MAN IN CONNECTICUT. NIXZMARY WAS BORN IN SAINT MARY'S HOSPITAL IN WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT. EDWARD JAMES BROWN HELPED NIXZALIZ PICK OUT A NAME FOR HER NEW BABY DAUGHTER. NIXZMARY'S NAME IS A COMBINATION OF HER MOTHER'S NAME (NIXZALIZ) AND HER GRANDMOTHER'S NAME (MARIA). THE TECHNICAL SPANISH PRONUNCIATION IS THIS: NEES-MAHR-EE. (NO ONE EVER PRONOUNCES IT LIKE THAT, THOUGH) HER NAME IS COMMONLY PRONOUNCED, AMONGST HISPANICS, IN A HALF ENGLISH, HALF SPANISH WAY: NICKS-MAHR-EE. MOST PEOPLE PRONOUNCE IT NICKS-MARY. ALTHOUGH EDWARD JAMES BROWN WAS NOT NIXZMARY'S BIOLOGICAL FATHER, HE AGREED FOR HIS SURNAME,"BROWN" TO APPEAR ON HER BIRTH CERTIFICATE. EDWARD JAMES BROWN AND NIXZALIZ SANTIAGO HAD TWO CHILDREN TOGETHER, A BOY NAMED, EDWARD BROWN JR. AND A LITTLE GIRL NAMED SELENA BROWN. IT WAS SAID THAT EDWARD JAMES BROWN LOVED AND ADORED ALL OF NIXZALIZ'S CHILDREN. THERE WAS C.P.S. INVOLVEMENT IN CONNECTICUT ALTHOUGH THE REASONS WHY WERE NEVER MADE PUBLIC. NIXZMARY LIVED IN CONNECTICUT UP UNTIL SHE WAS 3 YEARS OLD.
WHEN EDWARD JAMES BROWN WAS SENT TO PRISON FOR A PAROLE VIOLATION, NIXZALIZ MOVED THE FAMILY BACK TO HER FAMILY'S HOME IN AGUADILLA, PUERTO RICO. NIXZMARY WAS SAID TO BE HAPPY IN PUERTO RICO WHERE SHE WAS SURROUNDED BY PLENTY OF SUNSHINE, FAMILY AND FUN. SHE WOULD OFTEN PLAY WITH HER LITTLE TOYS IN THE COURTYARD OF HER FAMILY'S HOME.
BACK ON THE U.S. MAINLAND, CESAR RODRIGUEZ, AN IMMIGRANT FROM GUERRERO, MEXICO WAS WORKING AS A SECURITY GUARD. RODRIGUEZ WAS A LONER WITH A VIOLENT PAST. BOTH RODRIGUEZ AND HIS SISTER IRIS MOVED TO NY WHEN HE WAS 5 YEARS OLD. THEY WERE RAISED BY GRANDPARENTS UNTIL THEY BOTH MOVED TO A GROUP FOSTER HOME WHEN HE WAS 14. WHEN THE TWO SIBLINGS MOVED BACK TO NY WITH THEIR PARENTS TWO YEARS LATER, CESAR WAS SAID TO BE RECLUSIVE AND STARTED ACTING STRANGELY. HE JOINED THE ARMY IN 1999, SPENDING 3 YEARS AT FORT HOOD IN TEXAS BEFORE HE WAS DISHONORABLY DISCHARGED IN LIEU OF COURT MARTIAL FOR SENDING A MINOR PORNAGRAPHIC PICTURES OF HIMSELF, NAKED. AFTER THE DISCHARGE, HE WENT BACK TO N.Y. AND NEVER TOLD HIS FAMILY WHY HE WAS DISCHARGED EARLY. WHILE IN THE SERVICE, HE MET IRENE RAMSEY IN NOV.2000 AND MARRIED HER. THE TWO HAD A DAUGHTER NAMED AALIYAH, THE FOLLOWING YEAR. (CURRENTLY RESIDE IN ARIZONA) RAMSEY RECALLED THAT RODRIGUEZ WAS DRUNK ALL OF THE TIME. ON JAN.13th,2002, AFTER RAMSEY TOLD RODRIGUEZ SHE NO LONGER LOVED HIM, A DRUNKEN RODRIGUEZ PICKED A FIGHT WITH 3-4 MEN AT A HOUSE PARTY IN TEMPLE, TEXAS AND GOT HIS FACE REARRANGED. THAT NIGHT, RAMSEY DROVE HIM TO A HOMELESS SHELTER HE WAS STAYING AT AND WHEN SHE RIDICULED HIM FOR STARTING A FIGHT WITH THE MEN AND TEASED HIM ABOUT HIS BLACK EYE, HE PUNCHED HER IN THE CAR. WHEN THEY ARRIVED AT THE SHELTER, SHE GOT OUT AND CALLED THE POLICE. RODRIGUEZ SERVED 35 DAYS IN A TEXAS JAIL.*****IN AUGUST, 2002, RODRIGUEZ GOT INTO A FIGHT WITH HIS SISTER IRIS AT HER BROOKLYN HOME AT 80 STARR ST. *****ON AUGUST, 26th,2002, RODRIGUEZ GOT INTO A FIGHT WITH HIS BROTHER MIGUEL,ALSO AT THE BROOKLYN HOME AND WAS CHARGED WITH CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF A WEAPON AND MENACING. THE CASE WAS SEALED. CESAR EXPLODED WHEN HIS SISTER IRIS TOLD HIM HE HAD TO STOP DRINKING BEER.***** ON MARCH 10th,2003, CESAR SLASHED THE JACKET OF A MANHATTAN MAN WHO ANGERED HIM. THIS WAS THE PSYCHOPATH WHO WOULD SOON ENTER NIXZMARY BROWN'S LIFE.
IN 2003, NIXZMARY'S MOM, NIXZALIZ SANTIAGO, MOVED THE FAMILY FROM PUERTO RICO TO BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. THEY LIVED IN AN APARTMENT WITH NIXZALIZ'S BROTHER, LUIS SANTIAGO. IT WAS THERE THAT NIXZALIZ MET CESAR RODRIGUEZ, WHO WAS WORKING AS THE SECURITY GUARD FOR THE BUILDING. THEY STARTED A RELATIONSHIP AND WITHIN A FEW WEEKS, THEY WERE MARRIED. RODRIGUEZ MOVED IN WITH NIXZALIZ AND HER BROTHER. LUIS SANTIAGO AND CESAR RODRIGUEZ WEREN'T GETTING ALONG SO LUIS THREW HIS SISTER, HER KIDS, (INCLUDING NIXZMARY) AND CESAR, OUT ONTO THE STREET. THE FAMILY MOVED TO A HOMELESS SHELTER. CESAR AND NIXZALIZ WHO HAD JUST GOTTEN MARRIED, SPENT THEIR HONEYMOON IN THAT HOMELESS SHELTER. CESAR FOUND HOUSING FOR THEM THROUGH THE CITY AND MOVED THE FAMILY TO A 3 BEDROOM APARTMENT, OVERLOOKING A PARK, IN THE BEDFORD STUYVESANT SECTION OF BROOKLYN. THE FAMILY ADOPTED A BLACK AND GRAY TABBY CAT NAMED "ANGEL". 571 GREENE AVENUE WOULD BE THEIR NEW HOME, AND FOR NIXZMARY BROWN, IT WOULD BE HER LAST HOME.
NIXZMARY'S NEW STEPFATHER, CESAR RODRIGUEZ, BEGAN BEATING ON HER MOTHER, NIXZALIZ. WHEN THE FAMILY HAD JUST MOVED IN, THEIR UPSTAIRS NEIGHBOR, ULBIS RIVERA, A HOME HEALTH AIDE, SAW NIXZALIZ WITH A BLACK EYE. CESAR HAD AN OBSESSION WITH CLEANLINESS AND WOULD MAKE NIXZALIZ CLEAN THE HOUSE ALL DAY LONG. ONCE WHEN THE TWO WERE AT THE SUPERMARKET, HE WALKED OFF THE CHECKOUT LINE WITH THE E.B.T. (FOODSTAMP) CARD, LEAVING HER THERE, HUMILIATED, WITH NO WAY TO PAY FOR THE GROCERIES. HE ALSO BEGAN DISCIPLINING HER CHILDREN BY BEATING THEM AND DUNKING THEIR HEADS IN THE TOILET BOWL. HE WOULD TIE NIXZMARY'S OLDER BROTHER, JAVIER,9, TO A CHAIR AND PUT DUCT TAPE AROUND HIS EYES. CESAR BEAT NIXZMARY'S LITTLE SISTER, SELENA,5, AND HER BROTHER, EDWARD,6, WITH A BELT. NIXZMARY BROWN SEEMED TO BE THE TARGET CHILD AND THE OBJECT OF ALL CESAR'S RAGE, FOR SHE WAS BEING BEATEN ON A DAILY BASIS. THE KIDS WERE SO SCARED OF CESAR THAT WHEN HE CAME HOME FROM WORK, THEY WOULD ALL RUN OFF TO THEIR ROOM. ONCE, NIXZALIZ GRABBED CESAR BY THE SHIRT AND SAID "DON'T TOUCH MY KIDS"!! HE STARTED CHOKING HER AROUND THE NECK, CUTTING OFF HER AIR. WHEN NEIGHBORS COMPLAINED ABOUT ALL THE NOISE FROM THE FIGHTING, RODRIGUEZ SIMPLY TURNED UP THE MUSIC. NIXZALIZ, WOULD SOMETIMES GO TO HER UPSTAIRS NEIGHBOR, ULBIS RIVERA'S APARTMENT. RIVERA CALLED HER "NIXA". THEY'D TALK AND SHE'D LOOK AT MAGAZINES. NIXZALIZ CONFIDED TO ULVIS RIVERA, THAT RODRIGUEZ WAS BEATING ON HER. RIVERA COUNSELED NIXZALIZ TO LEAVE HIM, BUT NIXZALIZ INSTEAD SAID THAT SHE WANTED TO HAVE HIS BABY. A FEW MONTHS LATER, SHE BECAME PREGNANT WITH THEIR FIRST CHILD. THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN TOGETHER. A BOY NAMED CESAR AUGUSTINE AND ANOTHER LITTLE BOY NAMED CESAR GABRIEL. RODRIGUEZ'S DISCIPLINE SEEMED TO BE VERY SELECTIVE AS HE NEVER LAID A HAND ON HIS OWN TWO BIOLOGICAL CHILDREN.
NIXZMARY'S GRANDMOTHER, MARIA GONZALEZ, ALSO WITNESSED RODRIGUEZ'S CRUELTY. MARIA GONZALEZ WHO WAS RESIDING IN PUERTO RICO CAME TO NEW YORK WITH HER MOTHER TO SEEK MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR HER MOTHER'S CANCER. THEY STAYED WITH NIXZALIZ AND CESAR FOR 1 WEEK, AFTERWARDS, RENTING A SMALL ROOM. ON GONZALEZ'S SECOND VISIT TO THE FAMILY'S HOME, SHE REPORTED THAT CESAR, WHO WAS OBSESSED WITH MAKING NIXZALIZ CLEAN ALL OF THE TIME, THEN STARTED TO DEMAND THAT SHE, MARIA GONZALEZ, START CLEANING TOO!! GONZALEZ WOULD COOK MEALS FOR THE FAMILY WHEN SHE WAS THERE AND SAID THAT NIXZALIZ GREW DEPRESSED FROM BEING MADE TO CLEAN ALL OF THE TIME AND THE PHYSICAL ABUSE. GONZALEZ SAID THE CHILDREN WERE SCARED OF CESAR AND RAN TO THEIR ROOM WHEN HE CAME HOME. SHE ONCE SAW CESAR PICK NIXZMARY UP INTO THE AIR WITH HIS HANDS AND VIOLENTLY SHAKE HER, THEN MAKING HER GO CLEAN UP A SPILL IN THE KITCHEN. IN THE PAST, NIXZALIZ SANTIAGO HAD TOLD A SOCIAL WORKER THAT SHE WANTED TO SEND NIXZMARY TO LIVE WITH HER GRANDMOTHER IN PUERTO RICO AND THE SOCIAL WORKER ADVISED HER NOT TO, SAYING NIXZMARY WOULD RESENT HER FOR IT WHEN SHE GROWS UP. NIXZMARY BROWN NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO GROW UP.
NIXZMARY ATTENDED P.S.256 AND WAS IN MS.JAMILA BUSH'S SECOND GRADE CLASS WHERE SHE WAS WELL LIKED BY EVERYONE. "SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL", SAID MS. BUSH OF NIXZMARY. IN SCHOOL, NIXZMARY LOVED MATH AND DRAWING AND WRITING STORIES ABOUT HER FRIENDS. EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS FRAIL AND WEAK, SHE WAS STILL FAST AND GRACEFUL. SHE PLAYED BALL, SHE PLAYED TAG, SHE PLAYED DOUBLE DUTCH. NIXZMARY HAD ALREADY DECIDED AT 7 YEARS OLD, THAT SHE WANTED TO BECOME A DOCTOR. WHEN NIXZMARY WAS IN SCHOOL SHE WAS DOING WELL. THEN THINGS STARTED TO CHANGE. SHE STARTED SHOWING UP TO SCHOOL WITH BRUISES, BECAME WITHDRAWN AND WAS SEVERLY UNDERWEIGHT. NIXZMARY WAS ENROLLED AT P.S.256 IN JANUARY 2004. BY JANUARY 2005, 3 LONG TERM ABSENTEE REPORTS WERE GENERATED. ON MAY 16th.2005 A GUIDANCE COUNSELOR AT HER SCHOOL FILED A REPORT THROUGH THE STATE'S CHILD ABUSE REGISTRY THAT NIXZMARY HAD BRUISES, A BURN ON HER HAND AND WAS ABSENT 46 TIMES. A.C.S. (ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN'S SERVICES) OPENED UP AN INVESTIGATION, VISITED HER HOME AND TOOK HER MOTHER'S WORD THAT NIXZMARY WOULD BE RETURNING TO SCHOOL....ON JUNE 28th 2005, THE GUIDANCE COUNSELOR FAXED A COMPLETED QUESTIONAIRE BACK TO ACS, REPORTING THAT NIXZMARY WAS UNDERWEIGHT. AFTER TWO REVIEWS THE AGENCY DETERMINED THAT THE ABUSE CHARGES WERE UNFOUNDED. THEY CLAIMED THAT NIXZMARY DID NOT SUFFER FROM EDUCATIONAL NEGLECT AND ABSENCES DUE TO HER MOTHER'S INABILITY TO GET HER TO SCHOOL DURING HER PREGNANCY....IN SEPTEMBER, NIXZMARY MISSED 1 DAY OF SCHOOL. IN OCTOBER, SHE MISSED 6 DAYS OF SCHOOL. IN NOVEMBER OF 2005, SHE MISSED 9 DAYS OF SCHOOL.
IN NOVEMBER, 2005, MULTIPLE INCIDENTS HAPPENED THAT WOULD SEAL THE FATE OF NIXZMARY BROWN. FIRST NIXZMARY'S GRANDMOTHER, MARIA GONZALEZ WAS THERE, VISITING FROM PUERTO RICO. NIXZMARY, WHO WAS BEING DENIED FOOD AND BEATEN ON A REGULAR BASIS, BEGGED HER GRANDMOTHER TO TAKE HER BACK WITH HER TO PUERTO RICO. OBVIOUSLY, POOR LITTLE NIXZMARY SAW THIS AS HER LAST CHANCE TO GET OUT OF THAT HOUSE AND ESCAPE THE ABUSE. GONZALEZ REFUSED. FROM BROOKLYN, MARIA GONZALEZ WAS SCHEDULED TO FLY TO TEXAS TO VISIT HER SON WHO WAS IN THE ARMY. THEN FROM TEXAS SHE WOULD FLY BACK TO PUERTO RICO TO DEAL WITH SOME PAPERWORK REGARDING HER MOTHER'S DEATH. AFTER NIXZMARY'S DEATH IN JAN., GONZALEZ WOULD TELL THE MEDIA THAT THE REASON SHE COULDN'T TAKE NIXZMARY IS BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY FOR THE PLANE FARE.....ALSO IN LATE NOVEMBER, CESAR RODRIGUEZ LOST HIS JOB AS A SECURITY GUARD. WITH RODRIGUEZ HOME FULL TIME, HE WOULD TAKE ALL OF HIS FRUSTRATIONS OUT IN THE FORM OF BEATINGS, ON HIS HELPLESS STEP-DAUGHTER.....ON NOVEMBER 29th.,2005, CESAR RODRIGUEZ BRINGS NIXZMARY BROWN TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM OF WOODHULL HOSPITAL IN BROOKLYN. NIXZMARY, WHO IS VISIBLY EMACIATED, HAS A QUARTER INCH CUT ABOVE HER EYE FROM TWO DAYS EARLIER. CESAR TELLS THE EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTOR, "DR." MICHAEL ABBEY-MENSA, THAT NIXZMARY WAS RUNNING IN THE HOUSE, FELL AND HIT HER HEAD ON A WOODEN FRAME. ABBEY-MENSA, WHO IS REQUIRED BY LAW TO REPORT SUSPECTED CHILD ABUSE, CHOOSES NOT TO, DESPITE SEEING AN EMACIATED GIRL WITH A GASH TO HER EYE! INSTEAD HE REFERS NIXZMARY TO A MAXILLOFACIAL SURGEON FOR STITCHES (THEY NEVER TOOK NIXZMARY BACK TO THE HOSPITAL TO GET THE STITCHES REMOVED. SHE DIED WITH THEM) NIXZALIZ SANTIAGO WAS ALSO IN THE HOSPITAL THAT DAY. EARLIER ON IN THE DAY, A PREGNANT NIXZALIZ GOT INTO A FIGHT WITH CESAR WHO PUSHED HER TO THE GROUND CAUSING HER TO MISCARRY.
ON DEC.,1st. 2005 NIXZMARY ARRIVED AT SCHOOL WITH A BLACK EYE. SHE WAS WEARING AN EYE PATCH, SHE COULD BARELY WALK, WAS IN PAIN AND WAS COMPLAINING ABOUT A STOMACH ACHE. (A POSSIBLE SIGN OF SEXUAL ABUSE) THE SCHOOL'S SOCIAL WORKER, MARGARITA COTTO, NOTIFIED THE CHILD ABUSE REGISTRY. ACS CAME TO THE SCHOOL AND MET WITH NIXZMARY AND HER SIBLINGS. THE ASSIGNED SOCIAL WORKER, JOYCELINE ST.HILL WASN'T AVAILABLE SO SOCIAL WORKER, VANESSA RHODEN WAS FILLING IN FOR HER. ORLENE CUMMINGS, A SUPERVISOR, ALSO ACCOMPANIED RHODEN TO THE SCHOOL. ACS TOOK THE CHILDREN TO WOODHULL HOSPITAL FOR EXAMS. JAVIER, NIXZMARY'S OLDER BROTHER, TOLD THE SOCIAL WORKERS THAT NIXZMARY GOT THE CUT OVER HER EYE BECAUSE SHE WAS PLAYING AND FELL ON A PIECE OF WOOD. NIXZMARY'S LITTLE SISTER SELENA, HOWEVER, IDENTIFIED THE TRUE CULPRIT. SHE SAID "CESAR DID IT". WHEN THE SOCIAL WORKERS ASKED HER WHAT SHE MEANT, SELENA POINTED TO A WOODEN WINDOW FRAME AND AGAIN SAID, "CESAR DID IT". LATER AT THE HOUSE, SOCIAL WORKER, VANESSA RHODEN INTERVIEWED NIXZMARY'S MOTHER, NIXZALIZ. NIXZALIZ BECAME TEARY EYED AND TOLD RHODEN ABOUT THE FETUS FROM HER MISCARRIAGE THAT SHE WAS PRESERVING IN A JAR. (AT THE HOSPITAL, NIXZALIZ ASKED FOR THE FETUS TO BE RETURNED TO HER BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T WANT THE HOSPITAL THROWING HER BABY AWAY) UPON HEARING THIS, RHODEN WROTE IN HER REPORT THAT SANTIAGO SHOULD GET GRIEF COUNSELING. RHODEN THEN DETERMINED THAT ALL THE CHILDREN WERE HEALTHY, THE ENVIRONMENT WAS SAFE, IN THAT THE KIDS WERE IN NO IMMEDIATE DANGER AND THERE WAS PLENTY OF FOOD IN THE HOUSE. SHE SAW NO REASON TO REMOVE THE KIDS. SIX WEEKS LATER, NIXZMARY BROWN WOULD BE DEAD.
NIXZMARY RETURNED TO SCHOOL ON DEC.6th, 8th and 12th. ON DEC. 8th, CASEWORKER, JOYCELINE ST.HILL BRIEFLY TALKED TO CESAR OUTSIDE OF THE HOME BUT HE REFUSED TO LET HER IN............. ON DEC.9th, SHE CALLED THE FAMILY'S HOME BUT GOT NO ANSWER. THAT SAME DAY, SUPERVISOR, ROGER MOORE WROTE A NOTE URGING SUPERVISORS TO DO MORE DIGGING TO FIND OUT HOW NIXZMARY REALLY HURT HER EYE. NOTHING WAS DONE. ..........DECEMBER 12th. WAS THE LAST DAY THAT NIXZMARY OR ANY OF HER SIBLINGS CAME BACK TO SCHOOL........... ON DEC.15th, AFTER MANY FAILED ATTEMPTS TO REACH THE FAMILY BY PHONE, SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKER, MARGARITA COTTO, VISITS THE FAMILY'S HOME. SHE'S MET AT THE DOOR BY CESAR WHO REFUSES TO LET HER IN. COTTO TRIES TO PUSH HER WAY INTO THE HOUSE TO SEE NIXZMARY BUT CESAR BLOCKS HER.......... ON DEC. 21st. MARGARITA COTTO CALLS ACS SUPERVISOR, ANDREW BARTLEY, TO REPORT THAT NIXZMARY HAS MISSED TWO WEEKS OF SCHOOL. ACS CASEWORKER, JOYCELINE ST.HILL CALLS THE HOUSE AND THE PHONE WAS DISCONNECTED. SCHOOL STAFF MAKE ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO VISIT THE HOME.......... ON DEC.30th.,2005, EVEN THOUGH NIXZMARY HADN'T BEEN SPOTTED AT SCHOOL IN ALMOST A MONTH, ACS SUPERVISOR, ANDREW BARTLEY WANTED TO WAIT ANOTHER WEEK TO SEE IF SHE SHOWS UP!! BARTLEY WROTE ON DEC.30th."THE UNIT HAS BEEN UNABLE TO LOCATE THE CHILDREN AND FAMILY. IF THE SUBJECT CHILDREN DON'T RETURN TO SCHOOL BY (JAN.5th, CASEWORKER IS) TO OBTAIN A LEGAL CONSULTATION TO DETERMINE IF THERE'S A BASIS TO PURSUE A WARRANT TO PRODUCUCE." BARTLEY HAD TWICE CONSIDERED GETTING A WARRANT AND NEVER FOLLOWED THROUGH...........SUPERVISOR, ORLENE CUMMINGS, WAS EVEN LESS CONCERNED ABOUT NIXZMARY THAN ANDREW BARTLEY WAS. SHE TOLD CASEWORKER, JOYCELINE ST.HILL THAT IF NIXZMARY RETURNED TO SCHOOL, TO SEND A NOTE HOME WITH HER TO HER PARENTS!!! ...........ON THE EVENING OF JANUARY 10th.,2006, CASEWORKER, JOYCELINE ST.HILL WAS ORDERED TO MAKE AN AFTER HOURS VISIT TO NIXZMARY'S HOME. ST.HILL DECIDES TO PUT IT OFF UNTIL THE NEXT DAY!!! THE NEXT MORNING, JANUARY 11th., ST.HILL GOES BACK TO THE HOME AND STUMBLES UPON A CRIME SCENE. SHE SEES POLICE CARS AND THE CRIME SCENE UNIT AND IS TOLD NIXZMARY WAS MURDERED THE DAY BEFORE, THE VERY DAY SHE WAS SUPPOSE TO VISIT!.
ON JANUARY 11th.,2006, THE WORLD WOULD FIND OUT ABOUT THE UNSPEAKABLE ACTS THAT OCCURED AT 571 GREENE AVENUE, APT 4. CESAR RODRIGUEZ WAS PUNISHING NIXZALIZ SANTIAGO'S CHILDREN BY BEATING THEM WITH A BELT AND DUNKING THEIR HEADS INTO THE TOILET BOWL. THE WORST PUNISHMENTS HE RESERVED FOR NIXZALIZ'S OLDEST DAUGHTER, NIXZMARY. SEVEN YEAR OLD NIXZMARY BROWN WAS BEING STARVED AND WAS FORCED TO EAT CAT FOOD WHILE THE OTHER CHILDREN WERE ALL WELL FED. NIXZMARY BECAME EMACIATED AND WAS WASTED AWAY TO A SKELETAL LOOKING 36 POUNDS. (THE WEIGHT OF AN AVERAGE FOUR YEAR OLD) NIXZMARY WAS BEING WAS BEING LOCKED UP IN A DIRTY STORAGE ROOM FOR HOURS EVERY DAY. THAT ROOM BECAME HER PRISON. INSTEAD OF DOLLS AND PINK COLORED BED SHEETS AND PICTURES OF PRINCESSES THAT USUALLY FREQUENT LITTLE GIRL'S ROOMS, NIXZMARY "ROOM" CONTAINED: A BICYCLE, RADIO, A SHOPPING CART, A FAN, STORAGE BINS ON THE FLOOR, A CHAIR, WOOD, 6 MATTRESSES STACKED ONE ON TOP OF THE OTHER, A TOOL BOX, LAUNDRY, A DRESSER AND A KIDS MOTOR CAR.......THOUGH THERE WERE 3 BEDROOMS, THE OLDER KIDS SLEPT IN ONE ROOM BECAUSE THE RADIATOR IN THE OTHER BEDROOM WAS BROKEN. (THE 18 MONTH AND THE 6 MONTH OLD BABIES SLEPT IN SEPARATE CRIBS IN CESARS ROOM)THE ROOM WITH THE BROKEN RADIATOR WAS USED AS THE STORAGE ROOM. NIXZMARY BROWN WAS BEING LOCKED UP IN THIS DIRTY ROOM FOR HOURS EVERY NIGHT. CESAR WOULD TIE A WHITE NYLON ROPE FROM THE DOORKNOB OF NIXZMARY'S ROOM TO ANOTHER DOORKNOB TO PREVENT HER FROM ESCAPING.......SHE WAS BOUND LIKE AN ANIMAL, TIED UP TO A WOODEN CHILDREN'S CHAIR FOR 12 HOURS AT A TIME. THE CHAIR WAS TIED TO A BROKEN RADIATOR WITH WHITE NYLON ROPE. A BUNGEE CORD WAS TIED AROUND HER LEFT ANKLE THAT WOULD CUT INTO HER FLESH WHEN SHE TRIED TO MOVE HER LEG. SHE WAS DUCT TAPED TO THE CHAIR TO PREVENT HER FROM ESCAPING........ CESAR WOULD BEAT NIXZMARY EVERY DAY WITH HIS BLACK LEATHER BELT....... HE MOLESTED HER AND FORCED HER TO HAVE ORAL SEX WITH HIM. ONE SOME OCCASSIONS, THE OTHER CHILDREN IN THE HOUSE SAW CESAR RAPING THEIR SISTER. SOMETIMES NIXZMARY WOULD COME TO SCHOOL COMPLAINING OF A STOMACH ACHE. (A POSSIBLE SIGN OF SEXUAL ABUSE) ONCE, NIXZMARY TOLD HER AUNT IRIS THAT CESAR WAS MOLESTING HER. UPON FURTHER QUESTIONING, WHEN NIXZMARY SAW HOW SERIOUS THE SITUATION WAS, SHE LATER RECANTED. EVERYONE THOUGHT SHE WAS JUST MAKING IT UP SO SHE COULD GO LIVE WITH HER GRANDMOTHER IN PUERTO RICO. SADLY, THE ABUSE CONTINUED........BECAUSE LITTLE NIXZMARY WAS KEPT IMPRISONED IN THE STORAGE ROOM, SHE WAS FORCED TO USE THE CAT'S LITTER BOX FOR A TOILET.
ON JANUARY 9th. 2006, THE FAMILY LEFT NIXZMARY, WHO WAS EMACIATED WITH TWO BLACK EYES AND BRUISED ALL OVER, ALONE IN THE HOUSE, WHILE THEY WENT OUT ON A FUN FILLED SHOPPING TRIP TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD TARGET. THEY BOUGHT BRATZ DOLLS, POWER RANGERS, HOT WHEELS, PLAY DOUGH, SNACKS AND TREATS FOR THE KIDS. ONE OF THOSE SNACKS WAS JELLO PUDDING. THOUGH THE OTHER KIDS ALL WERE BOUGHT TOYS, NOTHING WAS BOUGHT FOR LITTLE NIXZMARY.
NIXZMARY'S 6 MONTH OLD BABY BROTHER, CESAR GABRIEL, HAD BEEN UNUSUALLY, EXCESSIVELY CRYING ON THIS DAY. NIXZALIZ FOUND HERSELF CONSTANTLY TENDING TO THE BABY'S CRIES. (PERHAPS THE BABY KNEW THE TERRIBLE FATE THAT WOULD AWAIT HIS SISTER? PERHAPS AN OMEN OF WHAT WAS TO COME?) WHEN NIXZALIZ SANTIAGO NOTICED THAT A STRAWBERRY JELLO PUDDING WAS MISSING, ONE OF NIXZMARY'S BROTHERS, EDWARD, VOLUNTEERED THAT IT WAS NIXZMARY WHO TOOK IT. CESAR CALLED NIXZMARY TO QUESTION HER ABOUT THE PUDDING. AT FIRST, THE SCARED GIRL DENIED TAKING IT, THEN CONFESSED. CESAR DEMANDED THAT SHE BRING HIM THE CUP. NIXZMARY WAS SUPPOSE TO FIND IT BUT NEVER DID. CESAR WALKED OFF TO GO LISTEN TO MUSIC. A SHORT WHILE LATER WHEN HE ENTERED THE CHILDREN'S ROOM TO PRINT SOMETHING OUT, HE NOTICED THAT HIS PRINTER WAS JAMMED WITH STUFFED ANIMALS. ALREADY ANGERED OVER THE PUDDING, CESAR NOW BECAME EVEN MORE ENRAGED AND STARTED SCREAMING AT THE CHILDREN AND DEMANDED TO KNOW WHO BROKE HIS PRINTER. THE SAME BROTHER, EDWARD, SAID THAT IT WAS NIXZMARY. (IN NIXZALIZ'S POLICE VIDEO STATEMENT SHE SAID EDWARD TOLD HER THAT IT WAS NIXZMARY AND SHE TOLD CESAR BUT IN A JAILHOUSE INTERVIEW GIVEN TO THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS A FEW DAYS AFTER NIXZMARY DIED, NIXZALIZ SAID THAT WHEN CESAR WAS SCREAMING AT ALL OF THE CHILDREN, EDWARD TOLD HIM DIRECTLY THAT IT WAS NIXZMARY. THE NAME OF THE ARTICLE IS CALLED "THE LAST PLEA OF LITTLE NIXZMARY" BY LISA MUNOZ) WHEN CESAR FOUND OUT HE STORMED OVER TO NIXZMARY'S ROOM AND ASKED HER WHY SHE WAS TOUCHING THINGS THAT WEREN'T HERS. THE SCARED LITTLE GIRL GREW QUIET. WHENEVER NIXZMARY WAS ASKED ANYTHING SHE WOULD GROW QUIET. CESAR BENT DOWN AND STARTED VICIOUSLY BEATING HER WITH HIS BARE HANDS. AS NIXZMARY LAYED ON THE FLOOR CRYING, NIXZALIZ CAME IN AND TRIED TO STOP HIM. AN ENRAGED CESAR IGNORED HER. HE PICKED UP THE RAIL THIN GIRL AND CARRIED HER KICKING AND SCREAMING INTO THE BATHROOM WHERE HE THREW HER INTO THE BATHTUB LIKE A MAT. HE STRIPED HER NAKED AND AS NIXZMARY WAS SITTING IN THE TUB COWERING WITH HER KNEES UP TO HER HEAD AND HER HANDS TO THE SIDE OF HER HEAD, CESAR GRABBED HER AND STARTED DUNKING HER HEAD UNDER FREEZING COLD WATER. WHENEVER NIXZMARY WOULD GET OUT FROM UNDER THE FAUCET, CESAR WOULD PUSH HER HEAD BACK UNDER. HE THEN, VICIOUSLY BASHED HER HEAD INTO THE BATHTUB FAUCET. NIXZMARY'S MOM, NIXZALIZ, WHO WAS IN THE ROOM WITH THE CRYING BABY HEARD LOUD NOISES AND HARD BANGS COMING FROM THE BATHROOM. SHE SPRINTED OVER TO THE BATHROOM AND TOLD CESAR "STOP IT, IT'S NOT WORTH IT!" SHE TOLD HIM TO "PLEASE FORGET ABOUT THE PRINTER" HE IGNORED HER. LITTLE NIXZMARY CRIED OUT "AI, AI, MOMMY, MOMMY!" BUT NIXZALIZ HEARD THE BABY CRYING IN THE NEXT ROOM AND WENT BACK. FEARING CESAR'S WRATH, SHE NEVER RETURNED TO THE BATHROOM. CESAR THEN PICKED UP NIXZMARY'S NAKED, DRIPPING WET BODY AND THREW HER TO THE FLOOR OF THE SPARE ROOM LIKE A RAG DOLL. HE DUCT TAPED HER MOUTH SO HER MOTHER WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO HEAR HER CRYING AND BEGAN KICKING AND BEATING POOR LITTLE NIXZMARY. (THERE WAS FRESH DUCT TAPE RESIDUE ON NIXZMARY'S NECK ON THE AUTOPSY PHOTOS AND SOME OF HER BRUISES WERE ONLY HOURS OLD) AFTER HE WAS FINISHED CESAR DUMPED HER ATOP A COMFORTER ON THE FLOOR.
NIXZALIZ, HOLDING THE 6 MONTH OLD BABY IN HER ARM, LOOKED INTO THE ROOM TO CHECK UP ON NIXZMARY. BECAUSE THE BABY HAD BEEN EXCESSIVELY CRYING THAT DAY, NIXZALIZ STAYED WITH THE BABY. TWO HOURS LATER, SHE CAME BACK TO CHECK ON NIXZMARY. NIXZMARY WAS IN THE ROOM MOANING. SHE HAD SEVERAL BRUISES ON HER ARM AND A SCRATCH ON HER LEG. WHEN NIXZALIZ FELT NIXZMARY AND SAW THAT SHE WAS ICY COLD, NIXZALIZ TOOK HER BACK TO THE BATHROOM AND PUT HER IN A TUB OF WARM WATER TO WARM HER UP. SHE PUT SOME WARM WATER INSIDE OF HER MOUTH TO WARM HER ON THE INSIDE. AFTERWARDS, NIXZALIZ DRESSED HER DAUGHTER IN A WARM RED SWEATSUIT, WRAPPED HER WITH BLANKETS AND TOOK HER INTO THE OTHER CHILDREN'S ROOM AND LAYED HER DOWN ON THE FLOOR, NEXT TO THE WORKING RADIATOR TO FURTHER WARM UP. WHEN NIXZALIZ WAS LEAVING THE ROOM, LITTLE NIXZMARY CRIED OUT, "MOMMY, MOMMY, DON'T LEAVE ME!" THOSE WERE NIXZMARY BROWN'S LAST WORDS. HER MOTHER LEFT THE ROOM ANYWAY. AS LITTLE NIXZMARY LAY THERE ON THE FLOOR, GASPING FOR AIR AND TAKING HER LAST BREATHS, HER FAMILY WENT ABOUT THEIR DAILY LIVES, NOT REALIZING THAT THEIR DAUGHTER AND SISTER LAY DYING ON THE FLOOR.
WHEN NIXZALIZ WENT BACK TO BE WITH CESAR, SHE TOLD HIM THAT SHE THOUGHT SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH HER DAUGHTER. HE TOLD HER NOT TO WORRY, THAT IT'LL BE ALRIGHT. CESAR HAD HEARD NIXZMARY GASPING FOR AIR BUT THOUGHT SHE WAS FAKING IT. "JUST PULLING ONE OF HER SCAMS." AT ABOUT 4:15AM ON THE MORNING OF JANUARY 11th., NIXZMARY'S OLDER BROTHER, JAVIER, COMES IN TO HIS MOTHER'S ROOM AND SAYS "MOMMY, WHY IS NIXZMARY NOT MAKING ANY NOISES?" WHEN THEY GO TO CHECK ON NIXZMARY AND FIND THAT SHE'S NOT BREATHING, CESAR STARTS DOING C.P.R. ON NIXZMARY. A LITTLE BIT OF WATER CAME OUT OF NIXZMARY'S MOUTH. HER MOTHER, SEEING THE WATER, THOUGHT NIXZMARY DROWNED BY GETTING TO MUCH WATER INSIDE OF HER FROM THE TUB EARLIER. SHE RUNS TO HER UPSTAIRS NEIGHBOR'S APARTMENT, ULBIS RIVERA, AND STARTS BANGING ON HER DOOR. RIVERA, WHO WAS AWAKENED OUT OF A DEEP SLEEP CAME TO THE DOOR WHERE NIXZALIZ TOLD HER "COME WITH ME, MY DAUGHTER DROWNED, SHE'S DEAD!" (NIXZALIZ THOUGHT THAT WHEN SHE PUT NIXZMARY IN THE TUB EARLIER, THAT NIXZMARY GOT TO MUCH WATER IN HER AND THAT CAUSED HER TO DROWN).......WHEN RIVERA RUNS DOWN TO THE SECOND FLOOR APT. AND HURRIED INTO THE BACK BEDROOM, WHAT SHE SAW ON THE FLOOR WAS HORRIFIC AND WOULD CAUSE HER TO CRY FOR YEARS AFTER. THERE LYING ON THE WOODEN FLOOR WAS THE BODY OF SEVEN YEAR OLD, NIXZMARY BROWN. SHE WAS ICY COLD AND HAD TWO BLACK EYES AND HER FACE WAS DISFIGURED AND SUNKEN IN. CESAR RODRIGUEZ WAS DOING CPR ON HER. (BY THIS TIME, NIXZMARY HAD BEEN DEAD FOR APPROXIMATELY 7 HOURS AND HE ACTUALLY BROKE HER RIBS) WHEN RIVERA ASKED NIXZALIZ WHAT HAPPENED AND NIXZALIZ REPEATED THE STORY OF NIXZMARY DROWNING IN THE TUB, RIVERA SLAPPED HER IN THE FACE AND SCREAMED "WHAAAAT DID YOU DOOOO TOOO THAAAAT GIIIIIIIRL???!!! TEEEEELLL MEEEE??!!!!!" SINCE THE FAMILY DIDN'T HAVE A PHONE, (CESAR HAD DISCONNECTED IT) RIVERA TOLD NIXZALIZ TO GO UPSTAIRS AND USE THE PHONE OF HER DAUGHTER, ESTA ROSA. NIXZALIZ RAN UP AND BRINGS RIVERA BACK DOWN THE CELL PHONE. 911 WAS ALREADY ON THE CELL PHONE WHEN NIXZALIZ HANDED IT TO RIVERA. AS ULBIS RIVERA WAS SPEAKING TO THE 911 OPERATOR,, NIXZALIZ STARTED CRYING OUT AND WAILING "MI MIJA, MI MIJA", (SPANISH FOR "MY DAUGHTER") IN THE BACKGROUND.
POLICE OFFICER, ERIC NOLAN, RECIEVED A RADIO CALL ABOUT AN UNCONSCIOUS CHILD AT 571 GREENE AVE. WHEN HE GOT THERE, A HISPANIC MALE WAS WAITING AT THE DOOR. NOLAN SAID CESAR CALMLY WALKED HIM, NOT RAN, TO THE APARTMENT. WHAT NOLAN AND THE OTHER POLICE OFFICERS SAW ON THE FLOOR WOULD SEND SHOCK WAVES THROUGH THE CITY OF NEW YORK, CAUSE AN OVERHAUL TO THE CITY'S A.C.S. SYSTEM, IGNITE A TIDAL WAVE OF RAGE AGAINST ALL INVOLVED, AND LEAVE EVERYONE ASKING, "HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED?" THERE, LYING DEAD ON THE FLOOR, WAS SEVEN YEAR OLD, NIXZMARY BROWN. SHE WAS LYING UPON A WOODEN FLOOR NAKED FROM THE WAIST UP. SHE WAS WEARING ONLY A PAIR OF RED SWEATPANTS THAT HUNG LOOSELY FROM HER MALNOURISHED FRAME. SHE WAS SO THIN THAT HER BODY FIT INTO HALF OF THE SWEATPANTS. HER HEAD WAS TILTED TO HER LEFT, HER RIGHT HAND WAS LYING UPON HER CHEST, AND HER LEFT HAND WAS SPRAWLED OUT ON THE FLOOR. NIXZMARY'S COMPLEXION WAS A GHASTLY WHITE. HER FACE WAS COMPLETELY SUNKEN IN UPON ITSELF AND HOLLOW, FROM BEING EMACIATED. SHE HAD TWO BLACK EYES, PURPLISH LIPS SLIGHTLY OPENED, A GASH ON HER FOREHEAD, AND A GIGANTIC BRUISE TO HER CHIN THAT HAD SCABBED. HER BLACK HAIR WAS PULLED BACK INTO A PONYTAIL. NIXZMARY WAS SO THIN THAT YOU COULD SEE BONES THROUGH HER SKIN. HER SHOULDER BLADES WERE JUTTING OUT, AND HER HIP BONE WAS ALSO PROTRUDING ALL THE WAY OUT, SIMILAR TO AN AUSHWITZ VICTIM'S. ON HER LEFT ANKLE WAS A PAINFULLY DEEP LIGATURE MARK FROM WHERE SHE HAD BEEN TIED TO THE CHAIR. THERE WERE BRUISES, ALL DIFFERENT COLORS AND IN VARIOUS STAGES OF HEALING, GOING UP AND DOWN HER ENTIRE BODY. NIXZMARY'S LAVENDER SHIRT WAS BUNCHED UP UNDER HER HEAD AS A MAKESHIFT PILLOW AND UNDER HER LAVENDER SHIRT WAS HER RED SWEATSHIRT. TO THE RIGHT OF HER BODY WAS A BED WITH A BLUE COMFORTER SPREAD, TO THE SOUTH OF HER BODY WAS A RADIATOR AND TO HER LEFT WAS A BLUE AND YELLOW CHILDREN'S TABLE. RESTING UPON THE TABLE WAS A JELLO PUDDING CUP WITH THE SPOON STILL IN IT.
THERE WAS NO PART OF LITTLE NIXZMARY'S BODY NOT CUT OR BRUISED. HER EMACIATED BODY WAS DESCRIBED AS A KALEIDOSCOPE OF CUTS AND BRUISES IN VARIOUS STAGES OF HEALING. SHE HAD A BATTERED SKULL THAT WAS SWOLLEN..... HER FACE WAS GHASTLY WHITE, SUNKEN IN UPON ITSELF AND HOLLOW FROM BEING EMACIATED..... SHE HAD TWO BLACK EYES, RACCOON-LIKE, THAT ENCIRCLED HER ENTIRE SOCKETS..... ABOVE HER RIGHT EYE, HER SKIN WAS TORN AND HAD STITCHES. THE STITCHES SHE RECIEVED WERE NEVER REMOVED. SHE DIED WITH THEM. UNDERNEATH THE CUT WAS WAS A PURPLE BRUISE. THE LEFT OF THE BRUISE LOOKED LIKE A LONG DROPLET DRIPPING DOWN.....THERE WAS A SMALL SCRATCH ON HER NOSE TIP..... ON THE INSIDE OF HER LOWER LIP THERE WAS A FRESH RED BRUISE IN THE SHAPE OF A SUBMARINE, ESTIMATED TO BE 7 HOURS OLD..... THERE WAS A LARGE LACERATION (TEAR TO SKIN) ON HER CHIN THAT WAS SCABBED AND BRUISING. THE SCAB ON THE CHIN WAS IRONICALLY HEART SHAPED!..... THE WHOLE AREA BEHIND HER RIGHT EAR WAS BRUISED AND THERE WAS A CUT THERE...... ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF HER NECK WERE LONG SCRAPES, RESEMBLING TWO PARALLEL LINES, GOING AROUND THE BACK OF THE NECK. ON HER NECK WAS ALSO WHITE, FLAKY MATERIAL, CONSISTENT WITH DUCT TAPE RESIDUE..... ON HER SHOULDERS WERE MORE BRUISING AND LACERATIONS- (SKIN TORN) THERE WAS A 2 1/4 INCH SCRAPE ON HER SHOULDER..... BOTH ELBOWS WERE BRUISED.
NIXZMARY'S RIGHT HAND WAS SWOLLEN AND THERE WERE BRUISES OF VARIOUS COLORS. THERE WAS A BRUISE ON THE FRONT OF THE RIGHT HAND STRETCHING FROM HER THUMB TO FOREFINGER. ANOTHER BRUISE FROM HER RING FINGER TO PINKY. THIS ONE WENT ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE WRIST. ANOTHER BRUISE GOING ACROSS THE WRIST AREA..... ON HER TORSO THERE WERE OLDER SCRAPES WITH SCABS AND SCARRING. GIGANTIC BRUISING ON THE LEFT SIDE OF HER ABDOMEN. BRUISE WAS IN THE SHAPE OF A TRIANGLE WITH IT'S POINT GOING TOWARDS HER RIGHT, PAST HER BELLY BUTTON..... THERE WAS A 1" BRUISE ON HER RIGHT HIP.....THERE WERE BRUISES IN THE MIDDLE OF HER BACK THAT WERE A BLUISH-PURPLE COLOR. THE BRUISES ON HER LEFT LOWER BACK WERE A BROWN GREEN COLOR. (VARIATIONS IN COLOR MEANS THAT THE BRUISES WERE NOT SUSTAINED AT THE SAME TIME) THERE WERE 6 OR MORE CIRCULAR SHAPED, PURPLE BRUISES ON HER RIGHT, LOWER BACK. UNDERNEATH THE CIRCULAR BRUISES WAS A GIGANTIC BRUISE EXTENDING INTO THE BUTTOCK AREA.....THIS LITTLE GIRL'S BACK WAS OBVIOUSLY BEING POUNDED TO TENDERS. CESAR WAS POUNDING ON IT THE WAY YOU WOULD POUND ON MEAT..... ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE BUTTOCKS WERE BRUISING AND 2 SCRAPES.....ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE BUTTOCK WAS A LARGE BRUISE.....NUMEROUS BRUISES ON HER THIGHS.....BOTH HER KNEES HAD MULTIPLE BRUISING. THE BRUISES ON THE RIGHT WERE BLUE. THE BRUISES ON THE LEFT WERE BROWN.....ON HER LEFT LEG THERE WAS A SCRAPE. ABOVE HER LEFT ANKLE WAS A PAINFULLY DEEP LIGATURE MARK. (FROM WHERE SHE WAS TIED WITH THE BUNGEE CORD).....HER RIGHT LOWER LEG, HAD A LARGE SCRAPE GOING AROUND THE ANKLE AREA. ABOVE THE RIGHT ANKLE, THE BRUISE WAS CIRCULAR SHAPED.
NIXZMARY'S BLOOD WAS FOUND: ON THE WALLS, THE FLOOR, THE LITTERBOX, HER DONALD DUCK YELLOW PILLOW, HER BLUE JELLY BELT, ON MATTRESSES, ON HER GREEN SWEATPANTS, A BLUE TOWEL, A PINK TOWEL, A COMFORTER, A BLANKET, A WHITE PILLOW. NOT SURPRISINGLY, HER BLOOD WAS ALSO FOUND ON CESAR RODRIGUEZ'S JEANS. HER HAIR STRANDS WERE STILL IN THE BATHTUB AND HER DNA WAS FOUND ON ROPE AND DUCT TAPE.
NIXZMARY DIED FROM A SUBDURAL HEMATOMA. BLEEDING ON THE BRAIN. SHE DIED A SLOW, PAINFUL DEATH. AFTER THE INITIAL BLOW TO THE HEAD, THE SYMPTOMS ASSOCIATED WITH IT ARE: HEADACHES, NAUSEA, VOMITING, CONFUSION, SLEEPINESS, THEN THE PERSON LOSES CONSCIOUSNESS, BREATHING IS DEPRESSED, THEN THE HEART STOPS. WE KNOW THAT SHE WAS MOANING IN PAIN AND GASPING FOR AIR ON THE FLOOR.
I REALIZE THAT THE ABOVE DESCRIPTION WAS VERY GRAPHIC BUT THE REASON I DECIDED TO INCLUDE IT IS BECAUSE THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO NIXZMARY BROWN. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO HER. THAT'S WHAT AN EXTREME CASE OF CHILD ABUSE LOOKS LIKE AND I WASN'T ABOUT TO SUGAR COAT IT.
CESAR RODRIGUEZ WAS ACQUITTED OF MURDER AND CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER IN THE 1st DEGREE. HE WAS SENTENCED TO 29 YEARS IN PRISON. HE'S CURRENTLY APPEALING HIS CONVICTION. NIXZMARY'S MOM, NIXZALIZ SANTIAGO WAS ALSO FOUND GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER IN THE 1st. DEGREE. SHE WAS SENTENCED TO 43 YEARS IN PRISON, A DECADE MORE THAN HER HUSBAND. NIXZMARY'S OLDER BROTHER, JAVIER BATISTA, MOVED BACK TO PUERTO RICO WITH HIS BIOLOGICAL FATHER, CARLOS BATISTA, WHO'S A FIREFIGHTER. NIXZMARY'S OTHER SIBLINGS, EDWARD, SELENA, CESAR AUGUSTINE AND CESAR GABRIEL WERE ALL PLACED IN A SPANISH SPEAKING FOSTER HOME IN BROOKLYN. THEIR GRANDMOTHER, MARIA GONZALEZ, HAS VISITATION RIGHTS WITH THEM ON THE WEEKENDS. GONZALEZ IS CURRENTLY FIGHTING EDWARD JAMES BROWN, EDWARD AND SELENA'S BIOLOGICAL FATHER, FOR CUSTODY OF THEM. NIXZMARY'S SIBLINGS FROM HER BIOLOGICAL FATHER'S FIRST MARRIAGE, WERE FINALLY TOLD THEY HAVE A SISTER. THE FAMILY'S BLACK AND GRAY TABBY CAT, ANGEL, WAS TAKEN TO THE ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL FACILITY IN BROOKLYN, WHERE IT WAS PUT UP FOR ADOPTION. A.C.S. SOCIAL WORKER, VANESSA RHODEN, CONTINUES TO WORK FOR A.C.S. THE A.C.S. SOCIAL WORKER AND SUPERVISOR, JOYCELINE ST.HILL AND ANDREW BARTLEY WERE BOTH FIRED. ORLENE CUMMINGS' STATUS IS NOT KNOWN (I THINK SHE STILL WORKS THERE BUT I'M NOT SURE AND WILL HAVE TO LOOK INTO IT) SOME A.C.S. EMPLOYEES WHO WERE FIRED AFTER NIXZMARY'S DEATH, ARE CURRENTLY SUING FOR THEIR JOBS BACK. ONE OF THE JURORS ON CESAR RODRIGUEZ'S TRIAL, BARBARA BURNS, REPORTED THAT AFTER THE TRIAL, SHE'S BEEN WAKING UP AT NIGHT IN COLD SWEATS AND HAS GOOSEBUMPS ALL OVER. (SHE'S NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO'S REPORTED THIS) SHE CLAIMS THAT AS SHE'S LEAVING HER BATHROOM AT NIGHT, THERE'S A LIGHT COLORED WALL AND SHE'S SEEN NIXZMARY'S FACE FLASH ON THE WALL IN FRONT OF HER. THE IMAGE IS THAT OF NIXZMARY IN HER GRADUATION PICTURE. SHE ALSO SAYS THAT EVERY MORNING AROUND 3:30 AM SHE'S AWAKENED BY THE SOUND OF A LITTLE GIRL CRYING. HER AND HER HUSBAND WALK THROUGH THE WHOLE HOUSE, YET THERE'S NO LITTLE GIRL.
NIXZMARY'S GRANDMOTHER, MARIA GONZALEZ IS SUING THE CITY OF NEW YORK FOR 250 MILLION DOLLARS FOR THEIR FAILURE TO SAVE NIXZMARY. NIXZMARY'S BIOLOGICAL FATHER, ABDURRAHMAN MIAN, WHO SAW HER FOR THE FIRST TIME WHEN SHE WAS IN HER COFFIN, IS ALSO BRINGING A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE CITY AND WANTS TO BE EXECUTOR OF HIS BIOLOGICAL DAUGHTER'S ESTATE. JAVIER'S FATHER, CARLOS BATISTA IS ALSO FILING SUIT AGAINST THE CITY BECAUSE JAVIER WAS ALSO BEATEN AND TORTURED BY CESAR.
AFTER THE DEATH OF NIXZMARY BROWN, THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY, MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, ORDERED A COMPLETE OVERHAUL OF A.C.S. A LAW WAS PROPOSED IN NIXZMARY'S NAME CALLED "NIXZMARY'S LAW". THE LAW PASSED THE NEW YORK STATE SENATE BUT HAS YET TO PASS THE NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY.
NIXZMARY BROWN IS BURIED AT CYPRESS HILLS CEMETERY IN BROOKLYN, N.Y. FLOWERS AND TOYS AND TEDDY BEARS ARE REGULARLY LEFT AT HER GRAVE. WHEN I HEARD THAT HER FAMILY WENT TO TARGET AND BOUGHT BRATZ DOLLS AND NOTHING WAS BOUGHT FOR HER, I WENT OUT TO TOYS R' US AND I BOUGHT A BRATZ DOLL JUST FOR HER AND TOOK IT TO HER GRAVE. FOR DETAILS ON HOW TO GET TO HER GRAVE, SEE MY BLOG. SHE'S BURIED ONLY 30 FEET FROM ANOTHER FAMOUS CHILD MURDER VICTIM, ELISA IZQUIERDO. ELISA'S STORY IS VERY SIMILAR TO NIXZMARY'S. PLEASE VISIT ELISA'S MYSPACE PAGE. YOU CAN CLICK ON IT BY GOING TO NIXZMARY'S FRIENDS SECTION.
EVEN THOUGH NIXZMARY HAS BEEN GONE NOW FOR CLOSE TO 3 YEARS, SHE CONTINUES TO BE LOVED AND IS MISSED DEARLY BY MANY. NIXZMARY WAS NOT ONLY BEAUTIFUL PHYSICALLY, BUT SHE WAS ALSO A BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEING. ONCE HER FRIEND, MYA THOMAS, CAME TO SCHOOL WITHOUT ANY SNACKS AND GREW HUNGRY. NIXZMARY, NOT WANTING TO SEE HER FRIEND GO WITHOUT FOOD, SHARED HER PRETZELS WITH HER. THE CHILD WHO WAS BEING STARVED AT HOME WAS GIVING AWAY HER PRECIOUS PRETZELS SO ANOTHER CHILD WOULDN'T BE HUNGRY.
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