Figure in Child’s Death Leaves Mental Hospital

Hedda Nussbaum, the battered woman who testified against Joel Steinberg in the death of their illegally adopted 6-year-old daughter, Lisa, has been released from a psychiatric hospital and moved to an apartment.

One of Nussbaum’s lawyers, Betty Levinson, was quoted in Thursday’s Daily News as saying Nussbaum had been discharged from Four Winds Psychiatric Hospital in Katonah several weeks ago. Steinberg, Nussbaum’s former live-in lover, was convicted earlier this year of manslaughter and sentenced to up to 25 years in prison in Lisa’s death.

Charges against Nussbaum were dropped after prosecutors concluded that she had been so severely beaten by Steinberg that she was unable to aid the child.