In New York City, on May 14, 1981 a baby girl was born by the name of 
Elizabeth Lisa Launders.  By November of the year 1987, the entire would
come to know her as "Lisa Steinberg"

Following her birth, Lisa's mother paid Joel Steinberg $500. to find an 
adoptive home for her.  A home was never found and although he never 
adopted Lisa, she lived with Joel for her entire short life.

When Hedda later found Lisa was no longer breathing, Joel STILL didn't want to call for help, but eventually did.  Lisa was in a coma for three days before she died.

Hedda has been involved in a campaign to stop Joel from ever being parolled and his next parole hearing is set for January of 2004. Joel has been up for parole several times and has each time been denied.  To this day he refuses to accept responsibility for he did to Lisa Launders.

Update

Joel Steinberg was released from prison June 30, 2004, after being behind
bars for ONLY 15 years.

After having been denied parole in 1996, twice in 2000 and once 2002, once again Joel Steinberg was denied parole again on January 15, 2004. 
The three member panel that interviewd Joel Said:

I personally wish he would NEVER get out, however, his realease date is set for June after he serves only two thirds of his sentence. A television company, who will NEVER be named on my site, has offered him a job based on the fact that he has been in prison. Isn't it wonderful, he kills a little girl, goes to prison, and when he gets out, he will have a television show which is his because he has been to prison. I find this to be repulsive!

After receiving so many requests for the name of the television station which
will emply this murderer, I have decided to put it up:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-06-15-steinberg-usat_x.htm

From prison to cable TV 

During the years that he was inmate No. 89A2941, Steinberg was disciplined a handful of times for such infractions as violating a smoking policy and refusing a direct order, says Linda Foglia, spokeswoman for New York's State Department of Correctional Services. He studied drafting and handicrafts and was a porter in the gym, she said. And since May 1991, the disbarred attorney has been assigned to the prison's law library, where he is a paralegal assistant.

After he's released, Steinberg will earn $250 a week as an intern for New York Confidential, a tabloid-style cable show that has the infamous report on the scandalous. "We're interested in a lot of different people, scandalous people ... who can do stories and have a totally different view on everything," show spokesman James Edstrom says. "There's no guarantee that he will work out. He'll start as an intern, and if he can handle it, he may end up being a reporter along with other people." 

Edstrom says the program is also interested in getting Bernhard Goetz on the show. Goetz became a symbol of vigilantism in 1984, after he shot four young men he thought were going to rob him on a New York subway. Goetz was sentenced to a year in jail for possessing an unlicensed gun.

At least part of Steinberg's wages may go to pay for his crime. Launders, Lisa's biological mother, was awarded $15 million in damages in September 2003 from a civil lawsuit she originally filed against Steinberg, Nussbaum and various city agencies. The city settled without admitting any wrongdoing in 1999 and paid $985,000.