By: Dovesblood
Murder Victim. Starved, unloved & 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.
Nixzmary Brown's stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, would keep her imprisoned in a dirty spare room. He tied rope from her doorknob to another doorknob on the outside so she couldn't escape. He duct taped her to a chair for hours everyday and duct taped her mouth so she couldn’t cry out. He tied a bungee cord around her ankle and attached it to the chair so whenever she would move her foot, it would be cut. Cesar would beat Nixzmary everyday with a black leather belt and rape the 7 year old, repeatedly. Her siblings actually witnessed it. Because Nixzmary was kept imprisoned in her room she was forced to use a cat’s litter box for a toilet. Cesar left her nothing but cat food to eat while her 5 siblings were fed hot, home cooked meals. All of this was done while her mother, Nixzaliz Santiago, turned a blind eye! When Nixzmary died at 7 years old, she weighed just 36 pounds, the weight of a 4 year old.
The family left Nixzmary, who was emaciated with two black eyes at home and went out on a fun filled shopping trip to the neighborhood Target. They bought Bratz dolls, Play Dough, Power Rangers, Hot Wheels. Nothing was bought for little Nixzmary. Snacks and treats were also purchased for the children. One of those snacks was Jello Pudding.
When Cesar was told that a Strawberry Jello Pudding Snack was missing and his printer was broken he beat Nixzmary in front of her mother then dragged her kicking and screaming into the bathroom, where he threw her into the bathtub like mat! He dunked her head repeatedly under the cold water as punishment. Her head was fatally bashed into the bathtub faucet. Her mother heard her crying out, “ai, ai, mommy, mommy”! The mom came, told him to stop, then left – more concerned about her own hide! Afterwards, Cesar dragged a naked Nixzmary back to her room, duct taped her mouth and started punching & kicking her all over her body. Because she was duct taped, no one heard her crying out. Afterwards her mother checked up on her later and saw that she was cold. She gave her a bath, dressed her in warm pajamas and layed her down on the floor next to the radiator to warm up. As the mother, was leaving, little Nixzmary called out, “mommy, mommy, don’t leave me”! Those were Nixzmary Brown’s last words. Her mother left her lying there and went into the other room to be with her husband.
Little Nixzmary died on the floor a few hours later from bleeding on the brain. When Officer Eric Nolan arrived at the apartment, what he saw lying on the wooden floor would send shock waves through the entire City Of New York, cause an overhaul to the City's ACS System and leave people crying for years later and asking, how could this have happened and why? There, lying on the wooden floor, was the body of 7 year old Nixzmary Brown. She was naked from the waist up wearing only a pair of red sweat pants that hung loosely from her rail thin frame. Her head, turned to her left, was resting upon a balled up sweatshirt and lavender top being used as a makeshift pillow. Her entire face was sunken in from emaciation. She had two raccoon-like black eyes that were half open. A gash over her right eye, a large scab on her chin. Her right hand was resting on her chest and her left hand was sprawled out onto the floor. Bruises of every shape and color, in various stages of healing, were going up and down her entire body. Blue, purple, brown, and green bruises. Nixzmary was so thin you could see the bones right through her skin. The crimescene photo taken of Nixzmary on the floor, looked more like a corpse that had been lying on the floor dead for days instead of a child that had just died. (She literally looked like an Aushwitz victim and that's not something that I say lightly.)
Three years later, Cesar Rodriguez would go on trial for the murder of Nixzmary Brown. After a 3 month circus of a trial, Rodriguez was acquitted of murder and found guilty of Manslaughter 1. He was sentenced to 29 years in prison. Nixzmary's mother, Nixzaliz Santiago, also acquitted of murder, was sentenced to 43 years in prison, almost a decade more than her husband!
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