By: Dovesblood
On Friday October 9th 2009 the Governor of the State of New York, David Patterson, signed into law, "Nixzmary's Law" that would make the maximum penalty for murdering a child in a cruel or wanton manner, life in prison.
Nixzmary Brown was a 7 year old girl who was starved to a skeletal looking 36 pounds, imprisoned in her room, kept duct taped to a chair, raped orally, forced to use a cat’s litter box for a bathroom & eat cat food, then finally beaten to death, her head bashed into a bathtub faucet, for taking a strawberry Jello pudding snack from her family’s fridge and over a broken computer printer. Her death caused an overhaul to New York City’s ACS (child protective services) system and today, Friday, October 9th 2009, three years after little Nixzmary was brutally murdered, the Governor of the State Of New York, David Patterson, signed a law bearing her name to protect children. The new law says that the maximum punishment for torturing a child to death is life in prison. Here's a quote from the Governor's press release:
"The signed bills include A.5080 / S.6091 – often referred to as “Nixzmary’s Law” – which amends the murder statute to add a new subsection addressing the murder of a child less than 14 in an “especially cruel and wanton manner” and authorizing a sentence of life without parole."
To read more articles on today’s historical Bill signing of the Nixzmary Brown Law, click the following links:
1010 WINS ARTICLE ON NIXZMARY BROWN
LEGISLATION INSPIRED BY NIXZMARY BROWN. BY ASSEMBLYMAN JOE LENTOL, BECOMES LAW!
NY DAILY NEWS ARTICLE ON NIXZMARY BROWN
FOX NEWS ARTICLE ON NIXZMARY BROWN
ROOM 8 NY ARTICLE ON NIXZMARY BROWN
NY POST ARTICLE ON NIXZMARY BROWN
GOVERNOR’S PRESS RELEASE ON NIXZMARY BROWN LAW
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