Family friend Awilda Cordero talks to reporters at Brooklyn Supreme Court. A jury in Brooklyn acquitted Cesar Rodriguez, the stepfather of 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown, of second-degree murder Tuesday, but convicted him of a lesser charge, first-degree manslaughter, for fatally beating her as punishment for stealing a snack and jamming his computer printer with toys.
(Viorel Florescu, Newsday / March 18, 2008)
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