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While the rest of New York City was going about its business on the evening of January 11, Nixzmary Brown lay dying.

The parents of 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown were charged with murder in connection with the girl's death from a fatal blow to the head.

Nixzmary's stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, 27, and mother, Nixzaliz Santiago, 27,who lived with six children including Nixzmary in a small Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment, were indicted yesterday on charges of second-degree murder.

The January 11 death came after a long period of abuse, as evidenced by the wounds all over her body, the medical examiner's office determined. The Brooklyn District Attorney, Charles Hynes, said there were also "many other allegations of abuse against the other children." If the allegations are true, Mr. Hynes said, they are among the most "gruesome" he has ever encountered.

Prosecutors said she was beaten, starved, tied to a chair, and tortured before she died in her squalid Brooklyn apartment.

In their indictment, prosecutors said Rodriguez abused the girl for months as her mother did nothing. The alleged abuse culminated, prosecutors said, when Rodriguez smashed Nixzmary's head against a bathtub.

A missing cup of yogurt — and a malfunctioning computer printer — may have led to Nixzmary's death. Mr. Hynes told reporters Tuesday that Rodriguez flew into a rage when he learned that his computer printer wasn't working.

Hynes described how Rodriguez allegedly put the girl in what her siblings "describe as 'the dirty room,' a rodent-infested room to which Nixzmary was routinely confined," as punishment for eating some yogurt - after her mother and a sibling ratted her out.

Then Rodriguez found his computer printer was broken, and Santiago blamed the girl - prompting her husband to storm into "the dirty room" and beat Nixzmary some more, Hynes said.

"He then stripped the little girl naked, dragged her into the bathroom, turned on the cold water from the bathtub faucet and thrust her head underneath the freezing water," Hynes said. "While Rodriguez had Nixzmary in the bathroom, loud banging noises and Nixzmary's cries of 'Mommy!' could be heard throughout the apartment."

Rodriguez threw the naked girl onto the floor of "the dirty room" to die, Hynes said. Hours later, he said, after Nixzmary stopped moaning, Santiago went to check on her daughter and found she was dead.

An amalgum off wire reports describing one of the 8 million realities in the big city. One of 22 million in the New York Metropolitan area. One candle, however, extinguished that heinous night.

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