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NEW YORK (AP) - A prosecutor used a gruesome crime scene photo in her closing argument Wednesday as she scolded a man accused of killing his starving stepdaughter for sneaking some yogurt. The man's defense argued the child's mother was responsible for the death.
"There is nothing that 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown could ever do to deserve that," Assistant District Attorney Ama Dwimoh said of the girl's battered corpse — skeletal, topless and splayed on a wooden floor.
Earlier, the defense had sought to convince jurors that, even though 29-year-old Cesar Rodriguez had punished an unruly Nixzmary with beatings, her "demented" mother was the killer.
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