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In an abuse case that diffuse a spotlight on New York’s troubled child welfare agency, Nixzaliz Santiago went on test of virtue in Brooklyn state court steady charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter and reckless endangerment in the death of her daughter, Nixzmary Brown. She has pleaded not guilty.

Nixzmary died Jan. 11, 2006, of a vicious blow to the head while being punished for stealing yogurt. Santiago reported verdict the bantling unconscious in the family’s three-bedroom apartment.

Her stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, has been convicted of manslaughter for delivering the blow that killed the girl.

Investigators discovered Nixzmary had been a virtual prisoner, confined to a room with dirty mattresses, a broken radiator, any old awkward school chair she was bound to with a rope, and a litter box she was studiously sought to employment instead of a dressing-table.

Nixzmary was so malnourished when she died that she weighed barely 36 pounds — about half the weight of an average girl her age. Defense attorney-at-law Sammy Sanchez has said she was just selfish by reason of her age.

In chance statements, the prosecution sought to portray Santiago as a heartless mother who allowed her husband to abuse the girl as she cared for her five other children.

Sanchez portrayed Santiago herself as a victim — a kind but “unsophisticated” mother with a “fifth-grade teaching” who relied without interruption men for tolerate.

He also hinted that she had emotional problems, telling the jury she took a fetus home from the hospital rear a miscarriage and put it in a jar in her bedroom.

Sanchez blamed Nixzmary’s death on the girl’s stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, who is serving up to 29 years in prison. He dodged a murder charge that could obtain sent him off for life.

Sanchez reported Rodriguez became increasingly violent after loss his job in 2005, and Santiago had in no degree choice to end to stay. “She didn’t want to off with you back to a shelter. She had a dilemma,” he said.

Prosecutor Ama Dwimoh, who also argued the case against Rodriguez, contrasted the two cases, saying Rodriguez’s centered on what he did under which circumstances Santiago’s was about what she didn’t do.

“The last words of 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown, moaning in pain and gasping for air, were, ‘Mommy, mommy, mommy,’” Dwimoh before-mentioned. “She didn’t love or comfort, and she didn’t stop the beatings and she didn’t get any help.”

The trial was to continue Friday.

The instance shocked the incorporated town and led to a series of reforms at its child welfare agency.

There had been warning signs according to years before Nixzmary’s death. School employees had reported that she had been absent for weeks the previous year. Neighbors noticed unexplained injuries and noted the child appeared underfed and small during her age. Child welfare workers had been alerted twice still said they found no conclusive evidence of abuse.

(This interpretation corrects plaintiff argued, not tried case.)