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Sadistic fiend who tortured helpless 10-year-old to death in NYC house of horrors sentenced for murder

April 26, 2025
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A sadistic fiend who bludgeoned his girlfriend’s helpless 10-year-old son to death in Harlem could spend his remaining years behind bars.

Ryan Cato, 38, was sentenced Friday to 25 years-to-life for killing Ayden Wolfe — who was subjected to unimaginable abuse while trapped inside his family’s apartment during the pandemic’s early days.

“Isolated from teachers and other responsible adults because of the pandemic, 10-year-old Ayden Wolfe was enduring horrific violence at the hands of his mother’s boyfriend,” said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in a statement.

“Ryan Cato brutally abused him, eventually killing Ayden in his own apartment.”

Ryan Cato is sentenced 25 years to life in the 2021 beating death of his partner's 10-year-old son at Manhattan Criminal Court on Friday, April 25, 2025. in New York City.
Ryan Cato, 38, will serve 25 years-to-life in prison for murdering 10-year-old Ayden Wolfe. Michael Nagle
Ayden Wolfe, 10, is seen in an undated photo with a Christmas tree.
Ayden Wolfe made a very big impact on everyone around him, his father said. GoFundMe

A Manhattan jury in March found Cato guilty of second-degree murder — nearly four years after first responders rushed into a West 131st Street apartment and found an unresponsive Wolfe, bruised and naked.

Prosecutors said Cato moved into his girlfriend’s Aquisha Johnson’s Harlem home in January 2021 and quickly began abusing Wolfe.

The vicious Cato made Wolfe hold weighs over his head while he repeatedly punched him — and filmed the abuse, sending the videos to his friends, prosecutors said.

The abuse apparently escalated March 5, 2021, when loud bangs were heard inside the apartment, as well as Cato threatening Johnson when she yelled at him to stop, officials said.

The bangs and thuds continued the next day, prosecutors said. Several hours after the ruckus, Johnson called 911, only to have Cato take the phone from her.

First responders arrived to find the naked Wolfe without a pulse, prosecutors said. They rushed him to Harlem Hospital, where doctors tried and failed to save his life.

Crime Scene investigators at 260 W 131st Street where 10 year old Ayden Wolfe was killed due to severe trauma to the body.
Wolfe was trapped inside his West 131th Street home with the abusive Cato. Daniel William McKnight
Ayden Wolfe, 10, is seen in an undated photo.
Wolfe had bruises over his body and internal injuries, according to an autopsy.

Medical examiners ruled Wolfe’s cause of death to be battered child syndrome.

Wolfe had bruises over his body, broken ribs and a slew of internal injuries — a lacerated liver, kidney and renal vein — that caused hemorrhaging.

“Some injuries were old, but others were recent,” said then-NYPD Chief of Department Rodney Harrison shortly after Wolfe’s death.

Johnson, who had previously been investigated by the Administration for Children’s Services, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, officials said.

She can withdraw her plea to manslaughter as part of a cooperation agreement, according to the officials.

Cato was also investigated by ACS for an unrelated case in which he allegedly beat another woman in front of their children, police said.

Wolfe’s father gave a heartbreaking victim impact statement read in court by prosecutors during Cato’s sentencing.

He said young Ayden was a moral child who made a very big impact on everyone around him. Ayden had a future, which he has no more, he said.

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