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Man who helped raise baby Nixzmary Brown despises the ACS
The man who gave Nixzmary Brown his surname and helped raise her as a baby says he’s been forced to relive her infamous slaying with each new tragedy tied to...
De Blasio is still in denial over ACS dysfunction
Though forced under public pressure to dump Gladys Carrión and install a new chief at the Administration for Children’s Services, Mayor Bill de Blasio remains as clueless as ever about...
Former ACS head didn't enforce safety program for caseworkers
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s child welfare commissioner turned her back on a safety program that was a key reform adopted in the wake of the infamous 2006 beating death of...
Boyfriend of Zymere Perkins' mom pleads not guilty to murder
The boyfriend of tragic Zymere Perkins’ mom pleaded not guilty Tuesday in the child’s broomstick-beating death. Rysheim Smith, 42, is charged with second-degree murder in the September 2016 death of...
State threatens to yank $858M from ACS over abused child deaths
ALBANY — The state could withhold $858 million from the city’s child welfare agency if it doesn’t shape up, an official Wednesday. “We mean business,” Sheila Poole, acting commissioner of...
Zymere Perkins' aunts plan to sue de Blasio, city over tragic tot's death
Child-welfare officials and other city bureaucrats were "deliberately indifferent" to the suffering of little Zymere Perkins before his fatal beating, according to a $10 million legal claim filed Tuesday by...
ACS workers sue over demotions after Zymere Perkins' death
Two senior Administration for Children's Services workers are suing the city claiming they were scapegoated and demoted in the agency’s rush to blame employees for the death of little Zymere...
Mom's boyfriend indicted for tragic death of Zymere Perkins
A Manhattan grand jury has indicted a Harlem man for the broomstick-beating death of his girlfriend’s 6-year-old son, court papers show. The exact charges against Rysheim Smith, 42, haven't been...
De Blasio continues to brush off evidence of ACS incompetence
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday brushed off evidence of rampant abuse in the home of dead 5-year-old Mikey Guzman as he defended his beleaguered Administration for Children’s Services. And...
Jury weighs murder indictment against boyfriend of Zymere Perkins' mom
A grand jury is weighing a murder indictment against the boyfriend of Zymere Perkins’ mom in the broomstick-beating death of the Harlem 6-year-old, prosecutors said Tuesday in Manhattan Criminal Court....
De Blasio's despicable 'fake news' defense for deadly ACS failure
Mayor de Blasio is denouncing The Post and city Comptroller Scott Stringer for conspiring to create “fake news” — namely last week’s exposés of gross mismanagement at the Administration for...
How to save more at-risk children
Could Zymere Perkins have been saved? The answer, revealed in a recent 27-page report from the state Office of Children and Family Services, is clearly yes. There were five investigations...
Gun dealer claiming to be Zymere Perkins' dad fails paternity test
A Brooklyn gun dealer who claimed to be the father of Zymere Perkins — and sought a paternity test to prove it so he could sue the city over the...
In just 3 months, 10 kids died on NYC child services' watch
Ten kids died despite each being the subject of at least four abuse or maltreatment complaints to the city’s troubled child welfare agency in the weeks leading up to the...
Caseworker, supervisor among ACS workers who botched tot's case
The three child-welfare workers on the chopping block over the beating death of 6-year-old Zymere Perkins include a caseworker who claimed he had no bruises, despite evidence to the contrary,...
De Blasio can't give straight answer on state's ACS order
Mayor de Blasio repeatedly refused Wednesday to justify his blatant attempt to mislead the public about being ordered by the state to appoint a monitor for his embattled Administration for...
The gruesome details of Zymere Perkins' abuse — and how ACS failed him
It was a horrific end to a brief, battered life, but it didn’t have to turn out that way. Little Zymere Perkins of Harlem was bludgeoned to death with a...
ACS botched Zymere Perkins probe, could have saved him: report
The state’s child-welfare agency has found the de Blasio administration botched the investigation into alleged physical and mental abuse of 6-year-old Zymere Perkins — and might have prevented his death....
Race-obsessed parents could learn a lot from their color-blind kids
Kristin Davis is a political progressive who predicts a massive eruption of gloom and doom brought on by the New World Order — and suffers from the paranoid delusion that...
Gun peddler will undergo DNA test to prove he's Zymere Perkins' dad
A gun peddler is one step closer to cashing in on his son’s tragic death. The Department of Correction decided to settle a lawsuit Wednesday filed by career criminal Nicholas...