The father of tragic Nixzmary Brown — who never met the girl while she was alive — has landed a $750,000 settlement from the city over her 2006 beating death.
Abdurrahman Mian split with the 7-year-old girl’s mother before she was born and told The Post in 2006 — after the child was fatally beaten by a stepfather in her Brooklyn apartment — that the first time he laid eyes on Nixzmary was when she lay in her coffin.
Nixzmary BrownBut Mian was still named the beneficiary of a lawsuit brought against the city’s child-welfare agency by the Kings County public administrator, which oversees estates, including those that have no heirs. The case was settled Friday.
But the man who gave Nixzmary her surname was furious that Mian is cashing in on the girl’s death.
“It’s as ugly as the crime that was committed on Nixzmary. It’s blood money,” raged Edward Brown, who raised Nixzmary as an infant but was not around for the awful abuse that killed her.
Brown became involved with Nixzmary’s mother, Nixzaliz Santiago, when she was pregnant with the girl, and he stayed with her for two years after the child was born until he was arrested on an undisclosed charge and put behind bars.
Emaciated and routinely abused, the child ended up beaten to death by a later stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez, for taking yogurt from the refrigerator at their Bedford-Stuyvesant home in January 2006.
The killing shocked the city.
Rodriguez and Santiago were convicted of manslaughter, and a series of reforms were ordered within the city’s Administration for Children’s Services, which had received complaints about the family before the girl’s death.
After Nixzmary died, Mian quickly surfaced as a potential litigant, infuriating her relatives.
Family spokeswoman Awilda Cordero said at the time that Santiago told her Mian had urged her to get an abortion and threatened to leave her if she didn’t.
Cordero told The Post on Sunday: “He shouldn’t be entitled to anything. He never had anything to do with her from the moment her mother got pregnant.
“Once again, the city is abandoning Nixzmary.”
Brown said he hopes Mian “will do the right thing and make sure the money goes to the kids,” referring to Nixzmary’s five siblings.
It remains unclear how much money will reach Mian, with a cut expected to go to the lawyers who had litigated the case since 2007.
Mian, through his lawyer, did not return calls seeking comment.
In a statement Friday, ACS Commissioner David Hansell noted the “deep reforms” the tragedy prompted and said, “We . . . sincerely hope that today’s settlement brings some closure to those who knew and loved Nixzmary.”
Rodriguez is serving 29 years behind bars. Santiago was sentenced to up to 43 years in prison for failing to rush her daughter to the hospital following the attack.



