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5 ACS Staffers Put On Desk Duty After Boy’s Beating Death

By MARK TOOR
Posted 10/3/16

Five employees of the Administration for Children’s Services—two caseworkers, two supervisors and a manager—who were involved in the case of a 6-year-old boy who was beaten to death Sept. 26 were reassigned to desk duty four days later while an investigation proceeds as to why he hadn’t been removed from his troubled mother’s custody after a series of abuse complaints were brought.

The death of Zymere Per­kins also raised questions about why the Department of Education hadn’t alerted ACS when the boy wasn’t registered to attend first grade earlier in the month, and subjected ACS Commissioner Gladys Carrión to criticism for the agency’s failures, even as the de Blasio administration declined to make her available to the media.

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