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'I thought he was faking': Zymere Perkins' mother admits she read the bible, did her makeup and bathed her dead son's body before taking him to the hospital HOURS after the six-year-old was savagely beaten to death
this happens all the time, it's like lion infanticide
The shocking admission was made by Geraldine Perkins (left in court, and right carrying her son into hospital), 29, as she took to the stand for a third consecutive day Wednesday to recount for jurors the horrific final moments of Zymere's (top) tragically short life, and how it was her ex-boyfriend Rysheim Smith (bottom) who took it away. Perkins said she stood idly by while Smith, 45, savagely battered her son with a broomstick and a shower rod before hanging on him on the back of a bathroom door and throwing his body across the room inside his squalid 606 W. 135th St. apartment in Harlem in September 2016. 'He was going limp, like unresponsive,' Perkins observed as she stood by allegedly watching Smith beat her son to death. 'I figured he was just faking'
this happens all the time, it's like lion infanticide