Sunday, September 22, 2013

Murder of Leiby Kletzky Dismembered Hasidic Boy

Murder of Leiby Kletzky Dismembered Hasidic Boy

  2011 abduction, dismemberment and murder of an 8-year-old Hasidic boy named Leiby Kletzky.

Murder of Leiby Kletzky

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Leiby Kletzky
BornYehudah Kletzky[1]
July 29, 2002
Brooklyn, New York
DiedJuly 12, 2011 (aged 8)
Brooklyn, New York
Cause of deathLethal drug cocktail; smothering
NationalityAmerican
Known forKidnap/murder victim
Home townBrooklyn, New York
ReligionOrthodox Jew
ParentsNachman Kletzky
Itta Esther (Esti) Forster Kletzky[1][2]
On July 11, 2011 Leiby Kletzky, a Hasidic Jewish boy, was kidnapped as he walked home from his school day camp in the Hasidic neighborhood of Boro Park, Brooklyn inNew York. His dismembered body was found in the Kensington apartment of confessed murderer Levi Aron, aged 35, and in a dumpster in another Brooklyn neighborhood,Sunset Park, on Wednesday morning July 13.
Kletzky's disappearance sparked an all-out search by New York City police and a block-by-block search by up to 5,000 Orthodox Jewish volunteers from New York and other states coordinated by the Brooklyn South Shomrim volunteer civilian patrol.[3] – July 12, 2011[4] Aron was apprehended early Wednesday morning after examination of videos from surveillance cameras along the boy's route showed him meeting a man outside a dentist's office and then apparently getting into his car. Aron gave a 450-word handwritten confession to police after his arrest, but pleaded not guilty at his first court hearing. The kidnapping and murder of the eight-year-old boy shocked the insular Brooklyn Hasidic community, whose streets are considered relatively safe.[5] The case has drawn comparisons to the 1979 kidnapping and murder of Etan Patz, a six-year-old SoHoresident who was snatched while walking to his school bus for the first time.[6]
Before the case went to trial, on August 9, 2012 Aron pleaded guilty to one charge of second-degree murder and one charge of second-degree kidnapping as part of a plea bargain agreement worked out between prosecutors and defense attorneys.[7] On August 29, Judge Neil Firetog sentenced Aron to 40 years to life in prison. Aron would be eligible for parole in 2051, which includes credit for time served.[8]

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In the confession Aron says he brought him into his house with the intentions of taking him back to his home the next day, but when he saw the missing flyers he panicked. Aron then went on to give grisly details of the alleged murder of the young boy. He gave gruesome details of the heinous act.
"That is when approximately I went for a towel to smother him -- in the side room. He fought back a little bit until eventually he stopped breathing. Afterwards I panicked because I didn't know what to do with the body," Aron said.
At his arraignment psychiatrists determined that he is mentally competent to stand trial and that he understands the charges against him, but his defense team said it may still go with an insanity plea, reports CBS station WCBS.
"There will be evaluations by our psychiatric experts to determine whether a psychiatric defense is viable and whether or not we have evidence to present it at trial," said Aron's defense attorney, Jennifer McCann outside the courtroom on Thursday.
Aron had been undergoing psychiatric evaluations at Bellevue Hospital since his arrest. Aron's lawyers said he was "hearing voices" and needed to listen to music to drown them out.
Prosecutors said Aron kidnapped Leiby from his neighborhood in Borough Park and gave him a toxic mix of prescription and over-the-counter drugs before smothering him. Aron then allegedly butchered the 8-year-old's body, hiding part of it in his freezer.
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