Word: nussbaumer
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...jury to find Steinberg guilty of "depraved indifference to human life." There certainly seemed to be evidence of that. After being pounded into unconsciousness, Lisa was left lying on a bathroom floor in the couple's Greenwich Village apartment for some twelve hours when Steinberg went out to dinner. Nussbaum testified that after his return, when she told him the girl could not be revived, he insisted they free-base cocaine before calling for help...
Steinberg's lawyers plan to appeal the verdict, arguing that Acting State Supreme Court Judge Harold Rothwax improperly instructed the jurors on the meaning of intent. They also contend that he should not have permitted the jurors to view a videotape made shortly after Nussbaum's arrest showing her covered with scars, bruises and ulcerations...
Jurors claim that they disregarded the riveting tales of Steinberg's sadism told by Nussbaum, who testified for the prosecution in return for dismissal of all charges against her. To many who followed the trial with horror, the question of her complicity in Lisa's death -- and in her own degradation -- remained unanswered. Even observers who were moved by Nussbaum's condition were appalled by her testimony that she did nothing when she suspected that the girl had been sexually abused...
...feminist Gloria Steinem argues that Steinberg's mistreatment left Nussbaum too traumatized to act. "As an extreme victim, she forces us to do one of two things," says Steinem. "Reject and blame her, or think we could be her. It's hard to think we could be her -- so we'd rather blame...
...Steinberg is in protective custody in a New York City jail while awaiting sentencing. He faces multi-million-dollar lawsuits brought separately by Nussbaum and by the natural mothers of Lisa and another child he illegally adopted, a boy named Travis, now 2 1/2. Nussbaum remains at a psychiatric facility in Katonah, N.Y., where she has been since last March. Lisa is buried in Hawthorne, N.Y., under a gravestone that reads GOD'S ANGEL...