As the step-father of Nixzmary Brown, (a girl betrayed by all of New York) stands trial for her brutal death, new details of the horrific torments he and the girl’s own mother perpetrated on the defenseless child are emerging and raising more questions as to how city child service workers could have missed the obvious signs of abuse. Fox News exposes the living Hell this innocent girl suffered through:

NEW YORK — There had been warning signs for years before 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown died from a vicious blow to the head.

School employees had reported that she had been absent for weeks the previous year. Neighbors noticed unexplained injuries and noted the child appeared underfed and small for her age. Child welfare workers had been alerted twice but said they found no conclusive evidence of abuse.

Two years after the girl’s death shocked the city, hastened child welfare reforms and made her name synonymous with child abuse, opening statements were expected to begin Wednesday in her stepfather’s murder trial.

Nixzmary’s personal hell was likely to be exposed through symbols of her horrific demise: the rope used to tether her to a chair, the cat-litter box she used as a toilet, the bathtub used to dunk her under cold water.

Authorities say evidence against her stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, includes crime-scene photos inside the family’s three-bedroom apartment and a videotape of the defendant casting blame on the malnourished victim, who weighed 45 pounds at the time of her death.

“Sometimes she used to get me real angry and I used to just throw her,” Rodriguez said during a post-arrest interview made public during a family court hearing.

Prosecutor Ama Dwimoh has called it a case of torture.

Nixzmary “was beaten repeatedly,” Dwimoh said. “She was bound like an animal.”

There were unexplained bruises all over her body but child welfare workers could find no evidence of abuse? The girl appeared underfed to untrained observers (and it turned out they were right) yet child welfare workers could find no evidence of abuse? The girl was bound to chairs and made to use a litter box, but neither of these things left any evidence of abuse?

I dare say that the kind of people who make a 7 year old use a litter box are probably the kind of people living in filth and squalor. I doubt they cleaned up after the poor girl nor did they treat the rope burns that surely result from being tied to a chair frequently.

There was plenty of evidence of abuse here but no properly trained, and I’ll put forward motivated, adult to handle the situation. My mother became a child welfare worker for NYC decades ago, when all you needed was a college degree and some common sense. Not one to avoid laying a heavy hand on a child herself, my mother never the less set out like some child welfare Elliot Ness, removing children from homes in the middle of the night with no more than a handful of patrolmen and the dismissive attitude of a city employee as soon as she got the slightest whiff of abuse.

Then in the 90s the city switched from hiring competent ,caring individuals to demanding people have Master’s degrees in Social Work.

An MSW program distills the worst aspects of Sociology and and other Marxist disciplines into one useless two year period where candidates learn that American standards of decency and morality are wrong. It is less a graduate program and more a leftist pretension, the perpetuation of Marxist theories on family relations under the cover of higher learning

Thus the new breed of child welfare worker is slow to act in the best interest of the child at hand in their zeal to not oppress the poor. They are willing to accept barbaric behavior from parents, especially parents from another culture, in the name of multiculturalism.

But the worst idea coming from this horde of MSWs is “family reunification” as the ideal outcome of their attentions. The dirty little secret about the family reunification theory is that it’s based in the racist idea that a child like Nixzmary is better off left in an abusive household with her “family” than end up in a caring foster home with White, Black or Asian caregivers. Children are routinely given to family members of abusive parents because it’s considered better for a Black child, for example, to be with Black people, even though time and again it turns out that apples don’t fall far from the tree. I doubt Nixzmary’s mother had relatives who would have been kinder to the child than the man she brought into her home and allowed to kill her daughter.

I can’t say exactly why social workers didn’t remove the child, but my theory is their own miseducation and a system run by people more interested in leftist theorizing than Nixzmary Brown was the reason for their inaction. What I know from experience is that non-profits like the YMCA (including the NYC YMCA) have stricter standards for what constitutes abuse than the NYC child welfare workers, and that’s something that shouldn’t be.

Nixzmary Brown could have been saved by two different city employees but she wasn’t. No overhaul of the child welfare system that doesn’t include retraining the workers will prevent another tragedy like this from happening.