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NYC man gets max sentence for horrific murder of 6-year-old boy he claimed he 'loved'
A Harlem man convicted of the horrific murder of his girlfriend's 6-year-old son was hit with the maximum prison term on Monday after claiming to the court that he "loved"...
Harlem man found guilty of beating 6-year-old Zymere Perkins to death
A Harlem man was convicted Wednesday in the fatal 2016 beating of his ex-girlfriend’s son, 6-year-old Zymere Perkins. After two days of deliberations, jurors in Manhattan Supreme Court convicted Rysheim...
Jury begins deliberations in Zymere Perkins murder trial
A Manhattan jury on Tuesday began deciding the fate of a Harlem man charged with the beating death of his girlfriend's 6-year-old son, Zymere Perkins. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Pickholtz...
Mom and boyfriend 'equally responsible' for Zymere Perkins' murder: prosecutors
Six-year-old Zymere Perkins' mom and her boyfriend are "equally responsible" for his "depraved" slaying, Manhattan prosecutors acknowledged Monday during closing arguments in the boyfriend's murder trial. Assistant District Attorney Kerry...
Video shows Zymere Perkins at welfare agency before his murder
Manhattan jurors Tuesday were shown video of adorable 6-year-old Zymere Perkins before his murder — but only a shortened clip, after the defense argued that the footage was prejudicial. The...
Zymere Perkins' sickening death exposes NYC's unforgivable child welfare failures
Zymere Perkins, a sweet, adorable child nicknamed “ZP,” was deprived of food and sleep, thrust into icy showers, and relentlessly beaten with belts and sticks by his mother and her...
Zymere Perkins’ mom admits lying to cops about his murder
Zymere Perkins’ mom admitted Thursday she initially lied to cops about her son’s murder to minimize her culpability. On Sept. 26, 2016, Geraldine Perkins, 29, passively stood by as her...
Zymere Perkins' mom put makeup on before taking son to hospital after beating
As 6-year-old Zymere Perkins lay dying from a brutal beating by his mom’s boyfriend, she spent 10 minutes putting on her makeup and a wig before taking the child to...
Zymere Perkins' mom admits she beat, starved her own son
Geraldine Perkins' ex-lover Rysheim Smith is on trial for murder in Manhattan Supreme Court, accused of torturing the child to death in September 2016 in a squalid Harlem apartment.
Zymere Perkins' mom beat tot with a belt years before his death
The mother of Zymere Perkins admitted in court Monday that she whipped her son with a belt years before her ex-boyfriend allegedly beat the 6-year-old to death in a Harlem...
School officials suspected abuse months before Zymere Perkins' death
Months before 6-year-old Zymere Perkins was allegedly beaten to death, school officials saw red flag after red flag -- and tried to warn the authorities, witnesses testified Monday at the...
Video shows squalid apartment where Zymere Perkins, 6, was beaten to death
Jurors Wednesday saw video in Manhattan court of the filthy apartment where 6-year-old Zymere Perkins was tortured to death. The short clip of the house of horrors at 606 W....
6-year-old Zymere Perkins was beaten, battered for months: ME
A city medical examiner described for a Manhattan courtroom Tuesday the appalling injuries suffered by a 6-year-old Harlem boy who was allegedly beaten to death by his mother's boyfriend three...
Murder trial begins for fatal beating of 6-year-old Zymere Perkins
Six-year-old Zymere Perkins was beaten, starved and tortured by his mother's boyfriend for more than a year as she stood by silently -- until the little boy finally gave up,...
Child abuse reports surge after high-profile tragedies
The tragic deaths of 6-year-old Zymere Perkins and 3-year-old Jaden Jordan in late 2016 weren't entirely in vain -- reports of child abuse, investigations of child abuse, and Family Court...
David Hansell is ready to take on the city's embattled ACS
When David Hansell took the helm at the Administration for Children’s Services earlier this year, the city’s embattled child- welfare agency was still reeling from a string of high-profile deaths....
ACS was right to punish lawyers in Zymere Perkins case: judge
Two employees of the city’s Administration for Children’s Services don’t deserve to have their names cleared in the death of a 6-year-old Zymere Perkins, who was fatally bludgeoned with a...
De Blasio must head 'all-out' effort to reverse ACS failures: report
Mayor de Blasio’s first year in office was marred by the deaths of 58 kids whose families were known to child-welfare officials — and he should lead an “all-out” effort...
New head of ACS presents revamped safety-review plan
The new head of the city’s troubled child-welfare agency on Wednesday unveiled a revamped safety-review program — which his predecessor had largely abandoned. David Hansell, commissioner of the Administration for...
Nearly a third of NYC's child deaths attributed to homicides
Nearly a third of the children who died of injuries in New York between 2010 and 2014 were murdered, according to a shocking new analysis by the city’s Health Department....