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Joel still believes he's above the rules

Dennis Duggan

Dennis Duggan Dennis Duggan

Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday

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Am I surprised that Joel Steinberg, convicted of beating

his 6-year-old daughter, Lisa, to death, would add insult to injury by telling

a magazine reporter that it wasn't his fault that she died?

Not at all.

"If I hit a little girl that way, the bruise would have been bigger than

her head," he boasted just a few weeks out after being imprisoned 17 years for

manslaughter....

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