Zymir zai zai Perkins was born on June 21st 2010 the same month that his mother Geraldine Perkins graduated from high school from the moment zimir was born his mother was already on acs’s radar Geraldine tested positive for cannabis use while still in the hospital however baby zaimir did not still the hospital reported the new mother to acs4 review ultimately the agency closed the case this would not be the last time that ACS would receive a report regarding Geraldine in her infant son the young mother was raised by her

grandmother and was staying with her at the time zaimir was born around this time the grandmother accused her granddaughter of sleeping with her husband which quickly landed her and her infant son out on the streets additionally this is when Geraldine began beating her son Geraldine and zymir bounced between homeless shelters in the greater New York City area in order to earn enough money to feed the two of them the young mother resorted to selling her body on the streets while staying in one of the city’s shelters

Geraldine was required to take parenting classes but they clearly were not helping well at one particular shelter a counselor intervened while Geraldine was beating zymir they threatened to file a report if they witnessed that type of behavior ever again and no further action was taken but this did not stop Geraldine at all when zymir was three years old the mother and I used that word Loosely would yell at the little boy and beat him with a belt she Justified using the belt to punish her son due to her lupus diagnosis

apparently being her son with her hands was painful for her and she didn’t want to hurt herself she’d been hospitalized due to the disease many times in the past and based on pictures her hands looked pretty bad off for those unaware lupus is in autoimmune disease inflammation caused by lupus can affect many different body systems including your joints it is a lifelong disease and can be fatal if not treated properly in May of 2015 the Now 26 year old Geraldine met 42 year old Rai Sheen Smith while on her way back to Hamilton

Place one of the many battered women’s shelters where she’d been staying with zamir even though he was twice her age the single mother found him to be handsome he was described as well built muscular and college educated so when he asked for her number she was quick to give it to him at first rishim seemed to be geraldine’s Knight in shy and armor rishim brought the mother Flowers and gifts and took her out to dinner this was something that Geraldine hadn’t ever experienced before he promised to take good care of

zymir and at first it seemed like he was going to be an awesome Father Figure rishim played with the little boy bought him toys cut his hair and read to him from the Bible according to Geraldine it was magical he was like my prince charming I never experienced a man bring 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 things moved quickly and rasheem asked Geraldine to take things to the next level 42 year old invited the mother and her

son to move in with him at his apartment located at 606 West 135th Street in Harlem now you’d think this would be a dream come true for a mother and son that were bouncing from shelter to shelter right I think at this point we all know better this isn’t that type of show in June of 2015 Geraldine and zaimir moved into Rye Sheen’s apartment now when I say apartment what I really mean is a squat this handsome older gentleman who had been taking such good care of Geraldine and her son was living in a derelict apartment illegally the unit

had no electricity whatsoever aside from what rishim had been funneling via an extension cord from a neighbor’s apartment through rejoining windows but this apartment was bad the refrigerator was full of decaying food and the white gas stove was caked in layers upon layers of grime the dining room table held countless prescription bottles amid a clutter of trash and other debris the two bedrooms fared no better each was filled with piles of trash dirty clothes dirty dishes old food and broken Furniture the bare mattresses were

filthy and filled with the same Grime found all over the rest of the apartment the living room was just as horrendous the carpet was embedded with feces along with live maggots the room housed a white bucket filled with a brown mystery liquid instead of curtains the windows were adorned with dirty blankets and towels the bathroom was absolutely disgusting with a scum filled sink in a bathtub full of mildew and dark black filth the entire apartment and probably the entire building had a severe cockroach infestation not only were they trapped

in a prison of squalor but soon after the mother and son moved in rishin totally flipped a switch geraldine’s dream come true quickly became zymir’s worst nightmare the man who was supposed to look after her son would take his anger out on the boy for even the most minor of infractions and would beat him severely subject him to forms of torture underneath the guise of punishment one of rishim’s favorite punishments was to force zymir now five years old to stand in the filthy bathtub and take freezing cold showers Geraldine claimed that in a

short time her new boyfriend began to frighten her but according to her she did not know how to leave in June of 2015 an anonymous Good Samaritan filed a complaint with ACS after they witnessed Rai shim attacking zaimir in a public park now according to the source the five-year-old was hit with excessive force at least 20 times on the button legs for not listening at a picnic his mother was present for the beating and did not intervene allegedly rasheem was beating zimir so hard that the slaps were audible from a distance

ACS was involved once again on June 30th 2015 after rishim caught zaimir drawing on the wall of a friend’s apartment with a crayon as punishment rishin beat the little boy with his belt his screams were so loud they were heard on the sidewalk zaimir told investigators from ACS that on numerous occasions his mother’s boyfriend beat him with a belt and made him take cold showers as a punishment ACS offered Geraldine parental Services which she refused no further action was taken on July 4th 2015 risheem Geraldine and saimir

attended a family Barbecue after the little boy pulled up a hundred dollars worth of plants from a relative’s garden which rishim had to replace zaimir was deprived of food apparently this was a common punishment in the house when they got home rishim forced zimir to hold a plank position for an extended period of time and when the little boy’s arms ultimately collapsed he was beaten with a stick as well as punched and kicked but rishim couldn’t let the situation with the plants go so his further punishment zaimir was forced to stand in

a corner overnight with Geraldine supervising him so that way he could not fall asleep on August 28 2015 Geraldine and rasheem went out to dinner leaving zimir to wander the streets alone after which a neighbor found him and called the police thankfully but three days later the couple got into a physical fight with the neighbor in front of zymir Geraldine admitted that rye Sheen punished zimir with cold showers and zaimir again complained that rishim has been beating him with a belt despite a caseworker noticing troubling

injuries on zaimir including missing teeth ACS found inadequate guardianship but did nothing as a result in October of 2015 zamir now a kindergartner got in trouble at school for asking to see another little boy’s private parts thinking that this was some sort of sign that the five-year-old liked boys rashim punched him in the jaw which caused him to lose a tooth zymir attended P.

S 192 Jacob H shift school which was located just a block away from his apartment due to his injuries and the ongoing beatings inflicted upon Him zymir missed 36 days of school between September and November of 2015. according to his teacher Josefina Gutierrez he was academically behind he wasn’t able to write his name and he did not know the alphabet she said saimir frequently showed up at school with injuries including a swollen jaw a bruise on his eye and he walked with a limp she reported the incidents and the school contacted ACS zaimir had minor

behavioral problems including once throwing a pencil at another student and Gutierrez reported his behavior to his mom at dismissal each time she noticed that zaimir would not return to school for days and when he finally did he had bruises all over him one time she mentioned her concerns to rishim who suggested that the teacher mentioned his name to get the little boy in line when she followed his suggestion a look of Terror in zymir’s eye made her never want to call the home again she claimed that she stopped calling the little

boy’s home to report misbehavior because she was afraid if she did it would lead to zymir getting beat according to Geraldine zimir would plead with her to leave rasheem he begged Mommy I wanna go home however Geraldine ignored her son’s police because she was in love with rasheem in some way she thought he must be right zymir was regularly forced to skip meals take cold showers hold a plank position for a prolonged period of time and stand upright all night without sleep Geraldine did nothing to stop the mistreatment of her son because she

admired rasheem’s grown kids from Boston who seemed to be successful she thought the harsh discipline in beatings would make a good man out of her little boy she too participated in the beatings using a belt or a broomstick to hit zaimir so it would not hurt her hands due to the stress from the beatings and the unsanitary living environment zaimir frequently soiled his pants and would urinate and defecate on the floor this would send rishim into a rage and the beatings would continue in a vicious cycle on February 2nd 2016 zimir school

reported suspicious injuries over four months including possible broken jaw scratches near his eye and a knocked out tooth Geraldine blamed each injury on a fall and per usual ACS failed to investigate on April 18 2016 school staff again reported suspicious bruises and scratches on both of zamir’s legs after the little boy showed up to school limping Elizabeth Garcia the school nurse noted that zamir’s thighs were covered in oval-shaped bruises the kind that you would get if you were hit with a belt School administrators escorted zimir and

his mother to the Manhattan Child Advocacy Center where the little boy was interviewed on camera and explained exactly what happened to him ACS and the nypd’s instant Response Team investigated and claimed that zymir was not in any immediate danger of physical harm ACS investigated a total of five times and even though they determined some of the complaints to be valid they still allowed zimir to stay in his mother’s care so months passed after this zaimir’s sixth birthday came and went and it was surely not a happy one

summer arrived and the beatings continued inside rishim’s dark roach infested apartment this apartment hadn’t had proper electricity in over a year and temperatures in the city sweltered into the high 90s without air conditioning the apartment must have smelled even more horrendous and after zymir’s kindergarten year he never returned to school on September 24 2016 zymir was in trouble for something insignificant as punishment food and water were withheld from the little boy zaimir hadn’t eaten or drank in 24 hours

meanwhile rasheem and Geraldine feasted on Chinese takeout in front of him he was made to go to sleep alone and hungry on the filthy living room floor later that evening Geraldine claimed to have woken up to the sound of something rustling through the garbage thinking that it was a mouse she got up only to find zimir picking through the trash eating whatever food that he could find after taking the bag away from him the mother went back to bed the following morning Geraldine awoke to rishim screaming at zaimir who was standing in

the living room wearing only a t-shirt and underwear both of which were smeared in feces the little boy had defecated on the floor and was trying to hide it apparently zaimir was too afraid to walk in the dark by himself to the bathroom this enraged risheem who cursed zaimir and jabbed him in the stomach with a broken broomstick he followed up by beating him from his chest down to his legs at one point holding him in the air while striking him Geraldine did nothing absolutely nothing to stop this attack she thought her son

was wrong for making a mess on the floor and deserved his punishment now at first zymir lay shaking in silent while he endured The Vicious beating but soon he was forced into the bathroom screaming rishim forced the little boy under the shower head and turned on the freezing cold water after which he pulled down the shower curtain rod and began beating him over the head with it zaimir went limp and Silent at first Geraldine thought that her son was pretending to be unconscious because according to her he’d done so in the past so rasheem

would stop beating him reichem finished off his attack by hanging the unconscious six-year-old on the back of the bathroom door by a hook he was soaked and covered in blood in feces when Geraldine attempted to take him down rishim threw his lifeless body into one of the bedrooms where he fell in the crack between the wall and the bed Geraldine noted that he looked dead well Geraldine that’s because he was rasheem did what any psychopath would do he left to get breakfast sandwiches for the couple Geraldine wasn’t much better

in the time that her boyfriend was gone she claimed to have cleaned up the house first starting with a living room then moving on to the bedroom where the body of her six-year-old lay in squalor she claimed to have tried to revive zaimir with a bath and CPR but eventually retreated to reading her Bible she knew in her heart that her son was dead and she was just worried about how she could get out of trouble when rasheem finally arrived home they made plans to dispose of zamir’s body he told Geraldine to take the boy down the

back door and if anyone asked where she had come from to lie he didn’t want anyone knowing about his illegal squat he told her to bring zimir to the hospital and to claimed that he had come down with food poisoning after eating at a homeless shelter but Geraldine didn’t leave immediately in fact the timeline of events gets pretty fishy as you’ll soon see she took some time to put on some makeup and a wig she claimed that she was very self-conscious and needed to look her best when leaving the house finally she

carried the body of her dead son out the back door where a bystander helped her hail a cab to Mount Sinai St Luke’s Hospital there’s actual surveillance footage that’s readily available on the internet that shows Geraldine carrying him inside upon arrival Geraldine told staff that he had fallen out of his bed and according to the staff zamir’s body was so cold that you could feel the coldness through his clothing leading them to believe that he hadn’t just passed away that he could have been dead for almost 17 hours doctors that examined zimir’s

battered and broken body likened his injuries to someone that had been hit by a car according to New York chief medical examiner Dr Susan Eli zaimir endured months of merciless attacks that left him undersized covered in injuries and suffering from numerous broken ribs he had multiple bruises scrapes and lacerations on the outside of his body the injuries ranged from his head face torso arms and legs she also observed a finger Mark bruise pattern around zimir’s neck his internal injuries were equally extensive including more than 30

rib fractures Eli said that he died from Fatal CA syndrome which she described as a culmination of months of neglect in abuse with the final event being the Tipping Point his manner of death was ruled a homicide now Dr Eli said the most striking observation she made was that he was a very thin little boy weighing just 35 pounds and standing three feet six inches tall the average size of a four-year-old boy his stomach contents only contained bile when Geraldine was questioned about his malnourishment she claimed that her son

was just like her in his biological father just genetically thin when asked about her son’s injuries she she claimed that the bruises were caused by plane and she claimed to know nothing of her son’s 30 rib fractures that were in different stages of healing when pressed further she claimed that her son had never been struck other than Spanx this was of course a lie as zamir had been beaten with close fists feet a shower curtain rod a broken broom handle and it grabbed by the throat on many occasions soon both Geraldine Perkins and riasheem

Smith were arrested in connection with zamir’s death after his death neighbors lick candles and left them on a sidewalk in Harlem recalling a little boy who often sat on a nearby stoop eating ice cream according to the city councilman Lark Levine the community felt a sense of betrayal even when neighbors and school Personnel did the right thing they made these reports and they were not heated in addition two case workers lost their jobs and several others in the ACs were disciplined three months later the city’s child welfare commissioner Gladys

carrione stepped down over long-running concerns about the agency’s supervision of vulnerable kids losing a child is unbearable and it’s my responsibility and one that I take seriously Mayor Bill de Blasio who said the city missed clear warning signs in zaimir’s case appointed a new commissioner David Hansel who ordered a review of ACS since then the agency has taken steps to make investigations more timely and improve preventative Services for parents like Geraldine David Hansel has also created new lines of communication between caseworkers and

school officials and has started using attendance records to spot abuse in young children School nurses have been trained to photograph injuries the management of cases has also been tightened at child advocacy centers like the one where zymir was interviewed five months before he was murdered zimir’s funeral was held on Friday October 7 2016 at the church of the open door in Brooklyn New York the little boy was laid to rest in a white suit and bow tie in a gold trimmed satin lined white casket a white veil was draped over the upper opening and a

white teddy bear holding a red heart was propped up by his head in a eulogy Friday night Reverend Mark VC Taylor urged hundreds of mourners packed to the pews to remember zymir is a little boy who loves Spider-Man in the Ninja Turtles with a smile that would Captivate anyone’s heart the NYPD detectives that were touched by zaimir’s case managed to raise nine thousand dollars to pay for his funeral and for his wake he was later buried in the children’s section of the Rosedale Rose Hill Cemetery in Linden New Jersey

for times Amir did not have a proper headstone that was until Lane who runs the blog and podcasts suffer the little children decided to take matters into her own hands she had been trying unsuccessfully for months to obtain the necessary permission to have one placed so on the fifth anniversary of his death she visited the cemetery and placed a small memorial stone in a superhero flag as amir’s final resting place if you haven’t checked out Lane’s work I strongly urge you to do so she’s a true advocate for kids who no longer have a

voice rashim’s trial began December of 2019 and lasted for four weeks as part of her plea bargain Geraldine spent several consecutive days on the witness stand providing testimony against her former boyfriend on Wednesday January 20th 2020 risheem Smith was found guilty of second-degree homicide first and second degree manslaughter and two counts of endangering the welfare of a minor he was later sentenced to 25 years to life in prison on Monday May 17 2021 Geraldine pled guilty to second-degree manslaughter this normally holds a

sentence of two to six years in prison however geraldine’s three years of time served waiting for her trial were taken into account also while being held on Rikers Island Geraldine claimed that her Corrections Officers set her up for a violent essay by a terrifying inmate named Alexandria James on September 17 2020 Geraldine Perkins was paroled from the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for women she essentially served no time at all whatsoever for the death of her beautiful six-year-old son Geraldine was born on August 28 1990.

this would make her 32 years old as of the date of this recording let’s just hope that she doesn’t have any more kids while she’s still able to because if this episode is any evidence at all she clearly does not deserve them