After she was brutally beaten by her stepfather, 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown lay naked, weeping and begging for her mother, but prosecutors said no one came to her aid or called for medical help until hours after she died. The girl's stepfather has already been convicted ...

A mother provoked her husband to abuse her 7-year-old daughter and did nothing to help as the battered, naked girl lay dying on their apartment floor, a prosecutor told jurors Thursday. In an abuse case that cast a spotlight on New York's troubled child welfare ...

Spectators in the courtroom shouted "murderer!" and "I hope you die in jail." But Cesar Rodriguez continued to insist he was innocent in the shocking death of his 7-year-old stepdaughter even as he was sentenced Thursday to up to 29 years in prison. The scrawny and battered girl ...