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Shake-slay dad guilty

A Queens man faces up to 15 years prison for manslaughter after a jury found today that he shook his two-month-old baby girl to death in his Flushing apartment.

The Queens Supreme Court trial of dad Hang Bin Li, 28, made headlines last month when actress Katie Holmes attended opening statements in support of her pal, trial prosecutor Leigh Bishop.

Li was acquitted today of the top charge of second-degree murder, but jurors said they found he was still responsible for manslaughter in the shaken-baby slaying of tiny Annie Li in October, 2007.

“”This jury spoke up for the child and said, ‘You can’t get away with this,'” juror No. 2, Luisito Castro, said after the verdict, adding that, “if we could pinpoint the murder to him, he would have gone away for murder.”

Li has insisted during the five years he has been held on Rikers Island that he did not kill the baby, instead attributing the death to his attempts to revive the sickly girl, who suffered from a genetic mutation called brittle bone disease, or osteogenesis imperfecta.

Prosecutors countered that while the baby did have a variant of that disease, the disease alone would not have caused the baby to suffer a massive skull fracture, broken legs and a catastrophic brain injury.

“We really hoped OI was the reason this happened, but we didn’t find that,” said an unnamed juror.

The jurors took less than six hours to reach a verdict and applauded Bishop for “doing her homework” and “captivating us for four weeks, day and night” with the facts of the case.

“If he took the stand a lot of questions would have been answered…his statements to police said he dropped the baby twice — they should have asked for help at that moment,” said juror Castro.

“Where was the mother in all of this?” asked another juror.

Li’s wife, Ying, was initially charged with manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child until prosecutors dismissed her charges the day before jury selection.

After the verdict, Ying, who didn’t testify, left the courtroom in tears, surrounded by several supporters from the Flushing community.

“I believe he is innocent. He didn’t kill our daughter. Our daughter is watching over us and I will continue to raise our [other] daughter,” said a heartbroken Ying.

The dad faces up to 15 years prison when he is sentenced by Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter on March 4.