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MY daughter is 19 months old. She weighs 26 pounds. Nixzmary Brown was 7 years old. She weighed 36 pounds. If she had not been murdered by a blunt trauma to her skull in the Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment that was at once her home and her torture chamber (complete with child's chair with ropes), Nixzmary might have died of starvation sooner or later. It appears her torturer, rapist and murderer was her stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez. Of course, Rodriguez could have done none of these things to Nixzmary had her mother, Nixzaliz, done something to stop it. Twenty years ago, the murder...

On the eve of Joel Steinberg's parole from prison, the foreman of the jury that put him behind bars thinks the cold-hearted child killer should rot there until his 25 years are up. "It was a truly reprehensible thing he did, and the penalty he's thus paid is not sufficient," ex-juror Jeremiah Cole told the Daily News yesterday. "The judge in the case recommended he serve the full sentence and I thought, under the circumstances, that was an excellent recommendation." Steinberg, 63, will be freed tomorrow from the Southport Correctional Facility in upstate Chemung County after serving the required two-thirds...

Hedda Nussbaum, today, age 61 PUBLIC LIVES For a Notorious Victim, Some Things Never Heal By COREY KILGANNON Published: February 10, 2004 White Plains HEDDA NUSSBAUM opened her office door and, slightly hunched and still limping from the nightmare she once lived through, led a visitor to a conference room at My Sisters' Place here, a center for battered women, where she now works as a paralegal. "I'm still not happy with my nose - I had a really nice nose," she said at one point. "But I can't go through any more surgeries." That would be the five cosmetic...