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The boyfriend of a 6-year-old New York City boy's mother was found guilty of murder and other counts in the child's death, ending one of the highest-profile child abuse cases the city has seen over the past few years.

Rysheim Smith, 42, was found guilty of second-degree murder, first-and second-degree manslaughter and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child for his role in the horrific death Zymere Perkins in September 2016.

“The death of Zymere Perkins was an unthinkable tragedy that sent shockwaves through the city and inspired a reckoning with how our social services system works to protect New York’s most vulnerable," Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance said after the verdict. "Zymere was an innocent and helpless 6-year-old boy who suffered unconscionable, ongoing violence at the hands of Rysheim Smith. Now, a Manhattan jury has rightly held the defendant accountable for this horrific murder."

Little Zymere died after a long pattern of abuse at the hands of Smith, prosecutors alleged. According to the criminal complaint against Smith, the Harlem apartment where Zymere lived was a vile, disgusting place infested with cockroaches and had no electricity. There was rotting food in the fridge and large amounts of mold, rust and mildew in the bathroom.