Well then, she deserved it.

In Trial, Defense Casts Slain Girl, 7, as a Terror:

"Nixzmary Brown may have been only 7 years old when she died, battered and starved, in her family’s Brooklyn apartment two years ago. She may have weighed only 36 pounds — the same as a healthy child half her age.

But for all that, a lawyer for her stepfather told jurors on Wednesday at the opening of his murder trial, Nixzmary was a force of destruction who terrorized her five younger siblings. What’s more, he said, she refused to be disciplined, slipping the ropes that bound her to the chair in her room, just out of reach of the litter box she was forced to use as a toilet.

“She was a little Houdini,” said the lawyer, Jeffrey T. Schwartz.

Nixzmary needed to be corrected, Mr. Schwartz said, and on the last night of her life, after she helped herself to a forbidden container of yogurt, her stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, administered a beating."

I don't know who is more vile - the man who tortured her and helped beat her to death or the worm who is defending him. I mean, really? Is he serious? That's the defense his lawyer is presenting, that a 7-year-old little girl was so dangerous and difficult to control that she needed to be starved, beaten, chained up and forced to use a litter box?

I know it's pretty crowded down there, but this dude is not going to have trouble finding a spot in the special Hell for lawyers. In fact, I bet they can't wait for him to get down there.