NUSSBAUM STILL EMOTIONALLY ATTACHED TO JOEL STEINBERG, WITNESS SAYS.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: SAMUEL MAULL Associated Press

NEW YORK Hedda Nussbaum, physically and emotionally battered for more than a decade by child killer Joel Steinberg, still wants to be with him, a psychiatrist testified in a Manhattan courtroom Monday.

``She shows a wish, a longing for a positive relationship with him, even to this day,'' said Dr. Samuel C. Klagsbrun, director of the Four Winds Hospital in Katonah, where Nussbaum was treated.

Nussbaum, 52, was sent to Four Winds after she was arrested with Steinberg in November 1987 in the death of Lisa, 6, the girl they illegally took custody of shortly after her birth and raised as their own.

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