Anyone having information should contact National Center for Missing & Exploited Children toll-free telephone number 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678)
Dekalb County Police Department (Georgia) 1-404-294-2519
Case Number: NCMC956459
Circumstances: Elyssa was last seen at school on January 28, 2003. She has pierced ears, a round scar near her right shoulder and a scar of 4 stitches below her chin. Not hard to see. Elyssa is biracial; she is Black and Hispanic. Her nicknames are Lisa and Lee Lee.
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(here is a banner with her pictures if you would like to "spread the word" and help find her. thank you)
HER PICTURES
Little Souls
You are my heavy hearted burden,
My tears for you stream down a mile
Knowing that you are missing, most
Likely by a disgraceful pedophile
Depending on your race, you make it
in the 6`oclock news
It takes your tragedy for legislators
To realize an epidemic in child abuse
I depict your face in my minds eye,
I want to picture you in happier times
Erase the reality of your anguish.
Delete the recognition behind the crime
Little angels Jose, Brian, Nixmary,
Elyssa, Shasta and Nicole
If I could only hug the pain away!
Rooted deep within your little soul
If my tears had the power to save you!
If they had the force to help You survive!!
If only one drop had the might to avoid
this, numerous of you would still be alive.
Copyright 2005, re-written January 28, 2006, Nellie Miranda, All Rights Reserved.
7yr old Nixmary Brown, died of child abuse Wednesday, January 11, 2006
THE STORY OF NIXMARY BROWN
As details of Nixzmary`s torment emerged, child welfare officials admitted the system had failed her. The family was uncooperative, ignoring repeated phone calls from caseworkers and turning them away at the door. The agency should have obtained a court order to enter the home.
Her school saw the warning signs. So did neighbors. Even child welfare workers had been alerted - twice.
On Wednesday, January 11, 2006 the 7-year-old was beaten to death in a Brooklyn apartment where she had been tied to a chair with twine. It was the fourth homicide in recent months involving a family monitored by the city`s Administration for Children`s Services, renewing concerns about the agency`s ability to protect abused children.
Nixzmary`s death followed that of three other children known to the agency: a 7-year-old died in October after her father allegedly kneed her in the stomach and beat her with a belt over two days; an infant drowned in November in a bathtub while his mother, who pleaded not guilty Friday to manslaughter charges, listened to CDs in another room; and a 1-year-old was allegedly beaten to death in December by his mother.
School employees had sounded the alarm about Nixzmary last year by reporting that she had been absent for weeks. On Dec. 1, there was another report from someone claiming to have seen the girl with a swollen eye.
On that Wednesday, her mother told authorities she found the girl unconscious around 4 a.m. and called 911. The child was dead at the scene; an autopsy found that she died from a vicious blow to the head.
The girl`s stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, accused of binding, beating and molesting her, was arraigned Thursday on charges of second-degree murder, sex abuse and child endangerment. Her mother, Nixzaliz Santiago, was arraigned on second-degree manslaughter and child endangerment charges.
Investigators said there was evidence the girl had been bound by her ankles to a chair. They suspect the stepfather delivered a fatal blow to the child`s head while dunking her in a bathtub as punishment, police said.
Under questioning, the stepfather tried to portray the girl as a problem child, police said.
Five other children living in the apartment, ages 6 months to 9 years, have been placed in the custody of the child welfare agency.