Zymere kin filing $10MM susuit vs. city

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 his aunts.

Shameka and Tanisha Perkins plan to slap Mayor de Blasio, former Administration for Children’s Services Commissioner Gladys Carrion and more than 20 other defendants with a federal suit over the abuse that killed their 6-yearold nephew, papers submitted to the city Comptroller’s Office say.

The “notice of claim” — required before one can sue the city — cites a state probe that found ACS failed to protect Zymere by botching five abuse investigations before he was battered with a broomstick on Sept. 26 in a squalid Harlem apartment.

“Zymere would have been alive today had the City of New York and its social-services network, which included [ACS], functioned properly,” the papers say.

In addition, Zymere allegedly “had numerous other contacts with other defendant agencies such as the New York City Board of Education and New York City Police Department, who turned a blind eye to his blatant misery.”

His aunts blast the “denials” of responsibility “at the highest levels,” specifically citing de Blasio’s claim before a state Senate committee last week that “the media are suggesting a fact pattern that does not exist” regarding ACS.

“Zymere Perkins isn’t the only one that has fallen through the cracks of the city’s broken child welfare system,” his aunts say, noting the subsequent deaths of 3-year-old Jaden Jordan in Brooklyn and 5-year-old Michael Guzman in Queens.

Their papers also refer to the findings of an exclusive Post report from December, noting how “ACS remains wasteful, with more supervisors than field workers.”

Each aunt identifies herself as a “proposed administratrix” of Zymere’s estate, and they say they hope “that through this lawsuit, serious reform is taken so that no child suffers the tragic end that Zymere faced.”

Shameka, 23, and Tanisha, 24, both of Brooklyn, are the younger sisters of Zymere’s mom, 26-yearold Geraldine Perkins, who was busted in his death along with her boyfriend, Rysheim Smith, 42.

The aunts’ lawyer, Abe George, called on Comptroller Scott Stringer to settle their case, as he did with the family of police chokehold victim Eric Garner, who got $5.9 million in 2015.

“The city knew the system was broken and failed to fix it,” George said.

“We evaluate all claims based on the merits,” Stringer’s office said.

A spokesperson for the city Law Department declined to comment.

Smith was indicted last week on second-degree murder and related charges, following the filing of a second-degree manslaughter charge against Geraldine Perkins.

Zymere would have been alive today had the City of New York and its social-services network, which included [ACS], functioned properly. — Aunts of Zymere Perkins (left), in claim against the city