Gothamist: Little Girl Mourned by Many

La Leone

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:39:45 -0500

I venture to say that the 'friends and neighbors' of this poor child wouldn't DARE show up here. They're home wallowing in guilt & shame as they should be. Anyone who previously knew anything about her abuse is partially responsible for her death. It's disgusting to think about... I think the first 2 posters are being a little harsh. Especially the 1st post that calls the people who showed up at her funeral 'vultures.' Just LOOK at the people in the picture. They look like 1st and 2nd generation immigrants from the neighborhood. Do they LOOK like they are mugging for the camera and trying to fill some empty hole in their lives by showing up? I'm sorry but if my grandmother were still alive & still in this neighborhood, she may have shown up at this funeral. Grief effects people in different ways. Sometimes this is the way old school Catholic immigrants deal w/death - especially one that that they feel is particularly unfathamable and unjust - the closure of a funeral. Even if its' a stranger, they feel that tragic. Showing their emotions, the solidarity, seeing other people with same feelings, etc. I'm not saying that I myself would have have gone, but probably someone in my family did! And I assure you it was not to be photographed either. I can barely type this. My heart hurts and I always want to cry thinking about this little girl. Please, I hope you reach inside yourself & find your soul. I also hope that that the first thing you did, before even posting your disgust and outrage at strangers who dared to show up for her funeral, was say some prayers and shed some tears for Nixzmary Brown.

rev pays

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:27:51 -0500

Now we see another city agency dropping the ball. Oh how the mighty NYPD has fallen. If it's true, ACS visited the the house twice, the most recent visit in December. Were the NYPD with the ACS caseworker both times? I hope the Mayor reads what was in the Grand Jury indictment. Granted it's not as interesting as the West side stadium plan for him or all those Olympians. but what does he care? There ain't no olympians in bed stuy. Funny how the Westside stadium would be finished by 2012, almost the same amount of time Nixzmary was alive on Earth. I suppose it was pathetic when all those Giants fans went to mourn Wellington Mara or Tisch?

Peter Mayone, Jr.

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:28:11 -0500

Last Thursday morning when I picked-up the Post and saw the picture of Nixzmary, the beautiful and innocent little angel and her tragic story - I cried. The sight of that dreadful chair and knowing, a defenseless little girl was tied to it and beaten to death, cut me to the bone. All I felt at first, was the sorrow and heartache for the little girl and couldn’t imagine the fear she must have felt. Next, the pain and trauma I would like to inflict on the scum that did this to her, if I only had the chance. Lastly, my disgust at the system for letting this “slip through the cracks”; it is inexcusable that this was allowed to happen, knowing there was a history there with this “family”. How many more innocent children have to die at the hands of scum like this?! How could she have fallen through so many “safety nets” ???!! It literally sickens me beyond words. There are many to blame here starting with family, (#1 her whore mother) neighbors and everyone else who turned their back on her. Nixzmary is now with the angels; The stairway to Heaven she has now climbed, eternal peace, I pray she’ll find…

Jack

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:01:30 -0500

People are outraged at people paying respects to a person who died a tragic life, yet everyone's happy as punch to know the initimate details of celebrity lives. Now please, lets start gossiping about Moby's business ventures. We'll be his friend in short time if we can have a level-headed assessment of Teany.

Jen W

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:15:32 -0500

But A_B, NY1 devotes a whole minute every 10 minutes to something called "The World Beyond New York"!

Meghan

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:18:22 -0500

Where were these neighbors and friends when they heard her being beaten or saw her bruises? I can't believe the media, including the NYTimes is widely publishing a photo of Nixzmary lying in her coffin. Sickening.

A_B

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:40:05 -0500

WTF is with these people? One can acknowledge that the death of Nixzmary Brown was a tragedy and probably indicative of larger problems with the ACS, but to show up at the funeral? The morbid fascination that these people, as well as the local New York media, has had with this death is verging on the macabre. Indeed, NY1 was reporting on the outfit she was being buried in! "Thank god" there was an accident on the BQE to at least cut down on a little of the coverage of this one poor girl. It's not as if there isn't news to be covered all over the world. How about this kind of detail on each brave soldier from the New York area killed in Iraq, rather than a 30 second footnote?

R.

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:14:22 -0500

What the hell is wrong with these vultures? I can't imagine why anyone would go to see the funeral except that they have some empty hole in their lives which they can only fill by trying to take part in some dramatic true-life crime. It's pathetic. Why not just stay home and watch a Lifetime movie?