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Geraldine Perkins & Bf Rysheim Smith Most Likely Beat Her 6yo Son To Death With A Stick

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http://nypost.com/2016/09/28/mom-boyfriend-arrested-in-death-of-bruised-6-year-old-boy/


Cops arrested a Manhattan woman and her boyfriend in the death of her 6-year-old son, who was found with bruises in their apartment this week, police said late Tuesday.

Little Zymere Perkins was found unconscious — with multiple bruises on his body and a head contusion — in their home on West 135th Street near Broadway at 2:25 p.m. Monday, cops said.

His mother brought him to St. Luke’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Cops believe the couple beat the boy with a stick, although it has not been confirmed that a beating caused his death.

Zymere’s mother, Geraldine Perkins, 26, and her boyfriend, Rysheim Smith, 42, were initially charged with endangering the welfare of a child, cops said.

The Medical Examiner’s Office will officially determine the cause of death.
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In The New York Post today it is reported that the two employees of the city's Administration for Children's Services didn't deserve to have their names cleared in the death of 6 year old Zymere.

A supreme court judge ruled that ACS was right to punish lawyers Susan Starker and Lee Gorgon for their role in the case. They were attempting to sue the city. Sadly all their punishment as well as other staff included was demotions and 30 day suspensions without pay.

Why were these employees not fired?

Gordon and Striker alleged in their lawsuit that they were picked upon for observing Rosh Hashanah following the boy's death which did not make them available for questions. I wonder if these two used this day to reflect on the fact that they had a role in the death of this beautiful little boy who was so brutally abused and murdered.

Judge Mendez ruled they were punished for allowing the caseworker to continue working on the case even though she had falsified documents.

The mother and boyfriend have been charged with manslaughter.

The article was written by Kaja Whitehouse and appears in today's New York Post.

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If case workers are found falsifying documents is they need to go to jail and any one that knows about it and doesn't report it.
 
Zymere? Ryheim?

Kid didnt have a chance anyways. Prob woulda grown up to be a criminal with ghetto trash like this as his parents.
 
Sue sue said:
If case workers are found falsifying documents is they need to go to jail and any one that knows about it and doesn't report it.
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The reporter wrote that the workers suffered demotions and suspensions without pay. I was pissed when I read that because the only one that suffered was Zymere. The workers did not even get real consequences for failing this child and that is really disgusting.
 
giantblue said:
Hey @Valasca Where's #BLM doesn't fit the narrative?
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Eh, the disproportionately high rates of abuse and to take it a step further, lack of outlets/resources/education available for families facing any form of domestic turmoil or violence, amongst impoverished urban communities is a legitimate concern for all of society and is ripe for a movement such as BLM to tackle.
 
Mom jailed in son Zymere's death says Rikers guards set up attack

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Geraldine Perkins (c.), in a notice of claim ahead of a planned lawsuit against the city, alleged “correction officers who were assigned to watch over (her) did nothing to stop the abuse.”
(JAMES KEIVOM/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)

...A Harlem mom jailed in the savage beating death of her 6-year-old son claims Rikers Island correction officers set her up for a violent sexual assault by a terrifying fellow inmate.

Geraldine Perkins, in a Friday notice of claim filed ahead of a planned lawsuit, alleged “correction officers who were assigned to watch over (her) did nothing to stop the abuse.”

And some officers, she charges, actually “took material steps to facilitate” the April 16 sexual attack by an “especially violent” inmate named Alexandria James.

The alleged assailant fashioned a homemade sexual device that she used to penetrate Perkins, who was supposedly under protective custody at the time of the assault.

“My client was the target of premeditated criminal conduct,” her attorney Aaron Rubin told the Daily News.

Perkins, 26, was moved into an isolated unit alongside James prior to the alleged attack.

Rikers correction officers “utilized James as an enforcer to intimidate other females inmates ... while deliberately turning a blind eye to the consequences,” the court papers charged.

The lawsuit will accuse the city, the Correction Department and correction officers who have yet to be identified.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...ns-death-rikers-set-assault-article-1.3327204
 
I can totally see this happening just like she said...

:shifty: What a waste of an opportunity to maim her.
 
Feb 15, 2018

The family of a 6-year-old Harlem boy who was allegedly beaten to death by his mom's boyfriend — after the city's child welfare agency had been repeatedly warned of abuse — is getting a $275,000 settlement, court records show.

The city agreed to the payment to little Zymere Perkins' family after his aunts filed a notice of their intent to sue over his Sept. 26, 2016 death.

"No amount of money will bring Zymere back, but, through this Angel's death, large institutional change has already been made to make sure tragedies like this never happen to any child in this city," the family's lawyer, Abe George, said.

Three ACS workers were fired over the botched handling of Zymere's case. The state also hired an independent monitor to oversee the troubled agency.

The $275,000 settlement was revealed in a filing in Manhattan Surrogate's Court on Wednesday. A judge needs to approve the settlement. Once approved the money will go to Zymere's maternal grandfather.
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https://www.nydailynews.com/new-yor...family-275g-settlement-city-article-1.3823663

Jul 16, 2018

A Harlem mom charged in her 6-year-old son’s death in 2016 says in a lawsuit that a city correction officer told her “meet your new wifey” before locking her in an isolated cell with a notorious inmate who went on to rape her.

Geraldine Perkins, 26, has been in custody since being charged with manslaughter for causing the death of little Zymere Perkins. The boy was allegedly beaten to death by Rysheim Smith, Perkins' boyfriend — but she admitted she also hit her son, according to authorities.

Perkins charges in a lawsuit filed Sunday in Manhattan Federal Court that she too endured horrific abuse — at Rikers Island.

Perkins says another inmate, Alexandria James, raped her on April 16, 2017, at the Rose M. Singer Center at Rikers. The attack, according to the suit, was orchestrated by correction officers at the women’s jail who had it in for Perkins. James allegedly acted as their enforcer.

Perkins’ attorney, Aaron Rubin, said his client is in protective custody at Rose M. Singer.

“She doesn’t deserve it. She mourns the loss of her son every minute of every day,” Rubin said. “There is just no excuse for a custom and practice of cruel and unusual punishment at Rikers Island, no matter who it is.”

A spokesman for the city Law Department said Perkins’ suit would be reviewed.
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https://www.nydailynews.com/new-yor...er-rikers-assault-lawsuit-20180716-story.html
 
I dont feel much sympathy for her getting beaten, but any guard who facilitated it should be fired and lose pension because its not a one time thing. Sadistic brutes.
Also in that photo above... Are those needle tracks on her hands ?
 
Flip Wilson as Geraldine was better looking than this ditch pig.
The mustache/tattoo, lip stain, herpe whatever it is, is just too much to fathom.
And honestly I really can't get upset over this thing being abused by another inmate.
If it was determined enough to rape this thing something tells me that it had really slow low standards regardless of being ordered to do it!
Hell give it a donut as a reward!
 
Muriel Schwenck said:
... any guard who facilitated it should be fired and lose pension because its not a one time thing.
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I don't know who is responsible for an inmate's cell assignment, but I'm pretty sure the guard that is escorting the inmates is not the one who does. The guard who made the comment (even if that guard actually did, because remember, we only have the word of the child killing bitch that he did say it) probably knows the habits of the various inmates and probable relationships that would develop between them. To punish a guard for locking up an inmate in the cell he was told to, is not really a firing offense in my opinion.
Muriel Schwenck said:
Are those needle tracks on her hands ?
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I want to say those are markings/tatts(?) are the same type that are on the face, but I'm not 100% sure.
 
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We are always discussing prison justice and when it happens we are quick to say these monsters should be treated better.

In my head I agree with @Muriel Schwenck but in my heart I think this bitch got the beating she deserved.

The case will dwindle on and when she is finally sentenced somehow she will have become the victim of an abusive penis, mental illness and child abuse she suffered growing up at the hands of the man (possibly) the state gave money to.
 
Manhattan jurors heard horrific details Monday of how a 6-year-old boy from Harlem endured months of torture at the hands of his mother’s partner before he was beaten with a broken broomstick and hung to die on the back of a bathroom door.

Zymere Perkins was killed Sept. 26, 2016 in the roach and maggot-infested apartment where he lived with his mother Geraldine Perkins on W. 135th St., according to authorities.

In her opening argument at Manhattan Supreme Court, Assistant District Attorney Kerry O’Connell told jurors an enraged Rysheim Smith killed his girlfriend’s son — who had bed wetting and other issues — after the little boy defecated in the living room and tried to hide the waste.

“He picked up Zymere, held him by the arm and began to beat him with a stick like a piñata,” she said.

O’Connell told the court of how Smith allegedly took the limp boy to the bathroom, where he “waterboarded him in the shower,” dropped him to the floor, beat his head with a shower rod and when he finally lost consciousness hung him on the back of the bathroom door by his t-shirt.

O’Connell also told jurors they’ll learn how Perkins waited hours to check on Zymere after the beating and then hastily carried his dead body to the hospital long after he could be saved.

Pictures were shown of Zymere’s badly beaten, lifeless body that were taken by investigators on the day of his death at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital. The graphic images showed bruises and cuts on the emaciated-looking little boy’s head, neck and ribs.
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Michael Nelson, an ER nurse at St. Luke’s who took the stand Monday, testified that Perkins ran inside the hospital “screaming” with Zymere in her arms.

“He was extremely cold. I felt the coldness of him through his clothes,” he said. “This child was dead for a while.”

As hospital staff tried in vain to revive Zymere, they discovered bruises and cuts all over his body, Nelson said, prompting an immediate investigation.

“There was no bringing this child back,” he said.
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O’Connell painted a disturbing picture for jurors of the hellish existence Zymere endured the last year of his short life. In gruesome detail, she described how flies had laid eggs in the fecal matter embedded in the apartment’s carpet, and that the floor was crawling with maggots.

“That’s the room Zymere Perkins slept in,” she said. “In a makeshift bed in a corner of the living room.”

She also said little Zymere was “deprived of food as punishment” and given bread for dinner while Perkins and Smith “ate like kings and queens.”

“When he was caught eating from the garbage because he was so hungry, the defendant beat him mercilessly,” O’Connell said. “He had broken ribs on broken ribs. This child had more fractures than he had ribs.”

O’Connell said Zymere was so malnourished, his thymus gland — which plays a vital role in immunity — disappeared altogether.
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Jurors hear horrific details of 6-year-old NYC boy’s months of torture before beating death

Manhattan jurors heard horrific details Monday of how a 6-year-old boy from Harlem endured months of torture at the hands of his mother’s partner before he was beaten with a broken broomstick…
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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 apartment.

Geraldine Perkins, 29, was testifying at the murder trial of her ex-lover, Rysheim Smith, as part of a plea deal that could see her set free with a slap-on-the-wrist punishment, despite her own admitted role in Zymere’s 2016 death.

Perkins told jurors in Manhattan Supreme Court that she abused Zymere when he was 3 years old while she was living at a shelter for drug addicts.

“I would yell at him or I would beat him with a belt,” she said of Zymere.

“He’d cry,” she added.

Perkins has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and agreed to testify against her ex-boyfriend in exchange for a two- to six-year prison sentence. She’s already spent three years behind bars, for which she’ll get credit.

A counselor at the shelter witnessed the abuse and told Perkins if she did it again, she’d have to report her, the mom said.

“That was the last time until I met Rysheim,” she said of the beating.

Prosecutors say Smith, 45, starved and tortured the boy for months until his little body gave out on Sept. 26, 2016 — while Perkins stood by silently.

Perkins’ testimony in court on Monday was the first time she had laid eyes on Smith since the slaying.

She told jurors that she gave birth to Zymere shortly after graduating high school — but seven months later her grandmother kicked her out of her house.

“My grandmother accused me of beating my son,” she said.

The young mom said she briefly turned to prostitution before lying about a crack addiction to get into a drug shelter.

She first met Smith in May 2015, and he swept her off her feet, buying her flowers and gifts.

“It was wonderful,” Geraldine recalled. “He was a father figure for my child. He played with him. He cut his hair most of the time. He bought toys for him. He read the Bible to him.”

She and Zymere moved into Smith’s filthy Harlem apartment, where he was illegally squatting.

Prosecutors say Smith started terrorizing the boy. In addition to vicious beatings, Smith allegedly forced Zymere to take frigid showers and relieve himself in a bucket in the living room. An autopsy later revealed that the child had endured more than 30 rib fractures.

“I don’t know how to raise him,” Perkins said. “I didn’t know what I was doing.”
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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 apartment. Geraldine Perk…
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‘It was magical, he was like my prince charming,’ Perkins recalled of their meeting. ‘I never experienced a man bringing me flowers like he did every day. He’d pick me up and take me to the park. We’d go to restaurants together. He was good to my child in the beginning.’

Administration for Children’s Services staffer Peter Alexander told jurors this afternoon that the child protection agency had received five reports of abuse and neglect regarding Zymere during his six short years of life – but all were ignored.
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Also Tuesday, Geraldine testified for the second day in a row in which she admitted to being complicit in the abuse and depriving her son of food and water regularly as her favoured method of punishment.

Perkins agreed to testify against Smith as part of a plea deal with prosecutors, which will land her sentence of just two to six years in prison after she pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
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The house of horrors where Zymere Perkins was tortured to death

Zymere Perkins was beaten to death with a shower rod before being hung on the back of a bathroom door and left to die in Rysheim Smith's squalid Harlem apartment in September 2016.
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This woman will end up killing or allowing another child to be abused.
 
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