NIXZMARY BROWN - 7 yo (2006) - NYC NY

The monster mom convicted in the 2006 death of Nixzmary Brown will get out of prison seven years earlier after one assault charge against her was knocked down on appeal.
Nixzaliz Santiago,
33, was found guilty of manslaughter and other counts in the shocking
child abuse case that rattled the city and led to reforms in the
embattled Administration of Children's Services.
Her sentence of 40-1/3 to 43 years behind bars was longer than the 29 years imposed on her boyfriend Cesar Rodriguez, who was convicted of of manslaughter for inflicting the blow that killed the 7-year-old girl.

The main reason Santiago got more time was the judge tacked on an extra 14 years for two assault counts.
One of them was stemmed from Nixzmary being tied to a chair with a bungee cord.
Yet
the appeals court found that Santiago was not indicted for that.
Instead, the grand jury hit her with an assault rap for smacking the
girl with a ruler, a source said.
The haunting photo of cops leaving Santiago's Bedford Stuyvesant tenement with the chair became the iconic image of the high profile case.
The
abusive mother's sentence has now been reduced to 33-1/3 to 36 years
behind bars, but the court dismissed her other appeal arguments.
"The defendant's remaining contentions are without merit," the court ruled.
The District Attorney's office and Santiago's lawyer declined comment on the decision.

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Nixzmary Brown's killer told her brother to have sex with kin: source

Nixzmary Brown, 7, was beaten to death over a yogurt in 2006. Her killer, Cesar Rodriguez, allegedly ordered Nixzmary's 15-year-old brother to sexually abuse relatives, a source revealed ahead of the brother's Family Court appearance Thursday.

BY  Rocco Parascandola,  Corky Siemaszko

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 9:04 PM




  Matthew Roberts for New York Daily News Nixzmary Brown was savagely beaten in 2006. Her mother, Nixzaliz Santiago, and Carlos Rodriguez were both convicted of manslaughter and are serving long prison sentences.  

The monster who beat 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown to death in Brooklyn may have been trying to turn her brother into a rapist.

That shocking new revelation emerged as Nixzmary’s now-15-year-old sibling was due Thursday in Family Court after his adoptive mother told cops he sexually abused two relatives, source said.

          
Cesar Rodriguez (left) beat Nixzmary Brown over a yogurt in 2006. Her mother, Nixzaliz Santiago, did nothing to stop him.




The troubled teen is now in the hands of the Administration for Children’s Service, they said.

It’s not clear when the alleged abuse happened, but a source said the teenager told investigators his stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, ordered him to have sex with one of the relatives.

The teenager was about 8 when Rodriguez and the youth's mother, Nixzaliz Santiago, were arrested for the 2006 killing that shocked the city and led to an overhaul of the ACS.

Both were convicted of manslaughter and are currently serving long prison sentences.

Nixzmary's murder horrified New York and the nation when it was revealed that she had been living in what police called a "house of horrors" in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

Rodriguez savagely beat the painfully thin 36-pound girl to death after accusing her of stealing his yogurt.

Santiago did nothing to stop Rodriguez or the other abuse he visited on the little girl, which included starvation, torture, and forcing her to use the cat litter box as her bathroom.

Even worse, child welfare workers who regularly visited the house were blind to what was being done to Nixzmary.

Santiago's five other children, who then ranged in age from 1 to 9, were placed in foster care after she was arrested and barred from any contact with her.

At the time, prosecutors told the court Santiago's three oldest children witnessed the abuse against Nixzmary — and might have been victimized as well.



  Matthew Roberts for New York Daily News
Nixmary Brown at 2. She was 7 years old when she was beaten to death after living in 'house of horrors' in Bed-Stuy.
      Michael Schwartz for New York Daily News
Scene at 571 Greene Avenue in Brooklyn, where 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown was found beaten to death in her family's apartment.
   

  The Daily News had an exclusive jailhouse interview with Nixzaliz Santiago.  










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