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STEINBERG: Still An Animal After All These Years

I picked up my paper this morning with a mix of "this figures" and "how sick can one man be"? running through my head. You'd think now that I have been a Domestic Violence Advocate for almost 3 full years now I'd be used to these sort of stories. Believe me, this remorseless, selfish bullpocky from abusers never changes. Never.

And I hope I never cease being shocked by the audacity of some of these abusers.

Here's the list of the most common excuses I hear (at least 25-35 times every week) from abusive men about their victims:

- she's just a 'scorned woman' (this is the MOST common)
- she's jealous of my new girlfriend
- she needs to get over it and move on
- she's exaggerating
- she's crazy
- she's the abuser not me (I'd say this is at least #3 if not #2)
- she's making it all up
- she needs to get her ego in check
- she pushed me to it
- it's not as bad she's making it out to be.

And here at the last comment above brings me to who was in today's paper made my breakfast almost come up.

Joel Steinberg.

A sociopath through and through. Remorseless piece of excrement. Lisa's suffering wasn't that bad? So the amount he owes her birth mother for beating her to death is too much? First of all, putting a price on a human life - particularly for a child who probably never did anything to Mr. Steinberg except being a child - is tough. How much does Mr. Steinberg feel his own life is worth? He's an attorney; albeit disbarred - so let's see what this bottom-feeding scum thinks of himself.

Obviously his malignant narcissistic self is so out of bounds as to boggle the mind. The shock that he would even try to get a reduced amount. How about if the courts amortize the amount for the 17 years he spent in prison to bring the $15 Million up to today's current prime rates?

In his brief, Steinberg argued that the media had unfairly characterized him as a monster. He wrote that Lisa was a "very happy, well adjusted, bright, socialized, popular child, free of signs of depression, abuse, battering, emotional dysfunction or oppression," according to the New York Law Journal.

"The record describes defendant as a caring, 'doting,' responsible parent who shared a primary relationship with Lisa, took her 'everywhere' with him and they had a 'friendship,"' Steinberg wrote.

Some friend you are Steinberg! You beat a poor defenseless little girl to death. You kept her in a cage. You beat your partner, Hedda Nussbaum, in front of Lisa, and so badly that Ms. Nussbaum still looks like hamburger after many reconstructive surgeries. Only a someone suffering thoroughly from moral insanity could have convinced himself of what you wrote (above) and try to sell this bag of elephant droppings to the Court.

Mr. Steinberg - you aren't fit to be called a member of the human race. Yom Kippur is coming so come clean, Steinberg. Tell us you liked beating up on women & little kids. To Death.

Lisa - we won't forget you. And hopefully, neither will the Court of Appeals.


Joel Steinberg, who killed daughter, argues to cut $15M penalty

Joel Steinberg, who served 17 years in prison for killing his 6-year-old adopted daughter, said the $15 million he was ordered to pay the girl's birth mother is too much because the child endured "at most eight hours of pain and suffering."

Steinberg, a disbarred lawyer convicted of killing Lisa Steinberg in November 1987, is representing himself in front of the Court of Appeals but did not attend Wednesday's session. Now 66, he's challenging a 2004 Manhattan Supreme Court ruling that ordered him to pay Lisa Steinberg's estate $15 million.

The penalty includes $5 million for the pain and suffering inflicted on the night of Lisa's death; $5 million for pain and suffering as a battered child; and $5 million in punitive damages.

Steinberg had gotten Lisa as a days-old infant from Michele Launders, then an unwed Long Island teen who paid him $500 in legal fees to arrange an adoption. Instead, Steinberg took the baby home to Hedda Nussbaum, his live-in companion.

Steinberg was convicted of hitting Lisa in the head with his hand around 6 p.m. on Nov. 5, 1987. Prosecutors said he then went out to dinner while Nussbaum tried to revive the girl. When he returned, he and Nussbaum free-based cocaine for a couple of hours while Lisa lay on the bathroom floor.

During a three-day trial, pathologist Dr. Michael Baden testified that Lisa received multiple injuries to her body and brain, with internal cranial bleeding, before her death. Baden said her brain swelled until it was compressed by her skull.

Testimony suggested Lisa was probably conscious for 8 to 10 hours after the initial blow. Medical experts also described older bruises and injuries consistent with abuse.

Steinberg was convicted of first-degree manslaughter and released from prison in 2004 after serving 15 years. He was originally sentenced to 8 1/3-to-25 years in prison.

Launders sued Steinberg, Nussbaum and several New York City agencies, claiming negligence. The city settled for $985,000.

Launders' lawyer, Wayne J. Schaefer, has said his client sued to make sure Steinberg was held accountable in civil and criminal courts and that he does not believe Steinberg has any significant assets.

• "The main point of Steinberg's appeal is that evidence of his abuse of Lisa on prior occasions should not have been a factor in determining damages," Schaefer said. "However, we feel that both the trial court and the appellate court below correctly decided that the issue ... when Steinberg was convicted of manslaughter, and that his attempt to prove otherwise in this appeal is meritless."
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In his brief to the state's highest court, Steinberg said the penalty levied against him was unprecedented in New York.

An appellate court which, by a 3-2 vote, upheld the Manhattan ruling, said earlier this year, "There is no case that even remotely approaches this one on the facts, and so, there is no obligation on our part to make the awards comparable." It also noted Steinberg was "devoid of any empathy or human emotion" about his daughter's death.

Dissenters on the court argued that while the manslaughter conviction determined that Steinberg had struck Lisa several times violently, it did not support a finding of chronic abuse.

The divided appellate ruling left Steinberg with the option of taking his appeals to the state's highest court.

In his brief, Steinberg argued that the media had unfairly characterized him as a monster. He wrote that Lisa was a "very happy, well adjusted, bright, socialized, popular child, free of signs of depression, abuse, battering, emotional dysfunction or oppression," according to the New York Law Journal.

"The record describes defendant as a caring, 'doting,' responsible parent who shared a primary relationship with Lisa, took her 'everywhere' with him and they had a 'friendship,"' Steinberg wrote.

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