More details have emerged about 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky’s final moments with a schizophrenic madman who snatched the boy off the streets of Brooklyn as he tried to find his way home.
On Wednesday night, 8,000 grieving mourners gathered to pay their last respects in a funeral service held just hours after Leiby’s dismembered body was found.
Police say the innocent Hasidic child fought for his life before being suffocated and chopped up in the tiny attic apartment of “loner” Levi Aron. Leiby’s dismembered body was found inside black garbage bags stuffed in a suitcase and left in a dumpster 2 miles from Aron’s Kensington apartment.
The autopsy report described defensive wounds on the child’s arms and wrists. His severed feet, which were found inside Ziplock bags stored in Aron’s freezer, bore ligature marks indicating his feet were tied as he struggled.
Leiby had begged his parents to allow him to walk the 7 blocks home alone for the first time from the Boyan Day Camp on 44th Street near 12th Avenue. “This is a no-crime area,” said state Assemblyman Dov Hikind, whose district is the safest in Brooklyn.
What were the odds that little Leiby would cross paths with the one Orthodox Jew in the neighborhood who had a penchant for little boys and a foot fetish?
After losing his way, Leiby innocently stopped Aron, a stranger, and asked him for directions home. Aron was on his way to a dentist’s office to pay a bill. The receipt for that bill would lead the FBI and police to his front door a day and a half later.
Surveillance video shows Leiby standing across the street from the dentist’s office for 7 minutes, patiently waiting, as he was told to do by the man who promised to show him the way home.
“Leiby appeared to be lost. He encountered Aron and asked him for directions. It was just happenstance, and a terrible fate for this young boy,” Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
The case was solved within 36 hours by good investigative police work. But it wasn’t soon enough to save Leiby from a deranged killer.
In his 450-word written statement to police, Aron said he left Leiby, alive, but tied up inside his apartment while he went to work on Tuesday. His co-workers at the plumbing supply store where he worked around the corner from his home, said he seemed a little troubled that day.
When Aron arrived home he said he “panicked” after seeing fliers distributed in his neighborhood with the boy’s picture on them. He fed Leiby a tuna fish sandwich then he suffocated the frightened boy with a bath towel. Aron denied sexually assaulting Leiby.
When police raided Aron’s apartment at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, and asked him where Leiby was, he nodded to the refrigerator. Officers saw blood on the refrigerator door handle. 3 bloody knives and a cutting board were found inside the freezer, along with Leiby’s feet.
In a comment left on NBC blog, a longtime resident wrote: “Parents let their kids walk alone in this area all the time because there is an inherant communal trust. We trust out neighbors,” she added: “We feel safe here. Not anymore.”
Source: DM
SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK! People in the world are so twisted who would ever do this … I don’t believe in the insanity plea I think they should fry his A$$!
man, when i saw the sheer number of mourners at the funeral, it just wowed me. i have mucho respect for that community.
There’s someone more hated than Casey Anthony this week. Ugh, sick freak. Does NY have the death penalty?
So sad. We have to teach our children that just because someone looks like us, doesn’t mean they are good. I wish he could have went into that dentist office for help. Teach your children that if they are lost, never leave with anyone, go into a business and ask for help, or see if you can find a pay phone.
Growing up, my mom and I had a code word. She told me that if someone didn’t tell me the code word, never to leave with them. If she was sick, they would know the code word. I suggest other parents do the same.
This is just sad, I can’t even read full story,, they need 2 torture this freak 4 the rest of his life
JUST HORRIBLE SICK WRONG JUST EWWW WHAT A CREEP WHAT A MONSTER….. SICK JUST SICK!
PORR CHILD WENT THRU ALL THAT PAIN… WHAT CREEPS ME OUT EVEN MORE IS THE FEET IN THE FRIDGE… WHY? WHAT WERE U GOING TO DO WITH THEM? HOW CAN U CUT SOMEBODY UP LET ALONE AN INNNOCENT CHILD?
SAD!
My thoughts and prayers are with this little boy and his family. I hope the death penalty is sought for this monster! How cruel can someone be! This case just saddens me!
THIS IS WHAT REALLY BUGS ME… HOW COME WHEN HE PANIC HE DINT JUST LET THE LIL BOY GO? … HE WAS LOST HE DINT KNOW WERE HE WAS AT RIGHT? OR GO LEAVE HIM IN A PARK OR SOMETHING FOR SOMEBODY ELSE TO FIND HIM.. IF U DINT SEXUALY ABUSE THE CHILD WHY KILL HIM?
OOh JESUS just to sad,
for this family they surely are gonna need it. This is guy is surley a walking MONSTROSITY…glad to know the little kid was trying to fight back 
Go ahead and Fry his sick AZZ so tax payers wont have to pay for his cell accomdations
This story breaks my heart. I can’t even imagine what the family members are going through. My prayers are with them.
R.I.P. Little Angel
Good morning! Wow, this is too heavy for a Friday morning.
I pray for the little boy’s family and his little soul. I have a 7 year old son (my baby boy). We’ve talked about strangers and being lost BUT i plan to have another Q&A session today on the way to his swimming lessons. This is so sad. My heart aches for his family.
You can best believe that MONSTER is going to be eaten alive in jail!!
#GladTheyCaughtHim
DEAR LORD at your will can you please take us back under the LAW, so Someone can stone him to a slow and painful death, I hate Satan and all his followers…this is just sick, sick bastard, I dont even know why he still breathing AIR, SMDogonH.
and eye for and eye.. special permission for him ONLY..ughhhh
Jesus!
Just seeing all those mourners and that hearse just sends chills down my spine, we live amongst some sick people WE have to start being more aware of our surroundings. If we see something that looks suspicious report it. I will pray for his family I can’t IMAGINE how it feels to lose a child. Your kids are supposed to bury you I’m sure it’s horrible when you have to bury your own child. May God be with his family…
What’s even sadder is it sounds like the defense team is already inking out a way that IF he is convicted he pobably won’t get the death penalty because if like Sandra says he’s a schizophrenic they can use his illness to get him off or hospital time instead of jail…
I hate this wicked system!
Good morning Everyone…..
I’m leaving this post until a different one pops up…
I saw coverage of this on AC360 last night…what made me angry was when he say “I understand that what I did may have been wrong…”
Morning everyone, happy Friday…
CAN WE GET A
PLEEEEEASE SAANDRITA ITS FRIDAY AND THIS POST WELL CAN WE JUST GET A NEW ONE 
Man this story is crazy! What a sad series of unfortunate events. He gets lost the one day he walks home alone and then asks the one peron who wants to harm him. I want to know what was the POINT of him taking the kid. He didn’t assault him and he only began to panic when he saw flyers of the kid? What was the point?!?!?!?! Sick Bastard!
I can’t imagine what the family must be going through.
Feline Feminine in the flesh says:
I saw coverage of this on AC360 last night…what made me angry was when he say “I understand that what I did may have been wrong…”
Morning everyone, happy Friday…
ok so he’s REALLY tryna make himself crazy already huh? pls let some inmate get a hold of him & save us all the trouble 
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GM FeFe
This is just TOO MUCH!!!! The little boy tought he was getting help from one of his own….I feel sorry for BOTH families. Aron’s father owns a hardware store in the community…How is he suppose to go on after this and poor Leiby’s family…the family’s only male to carry the name on…
Sandra..lets lighten up for the rest of the day….Its been a terrible week for America’s children…sitting here with a HEAVY heart…
Good mornign SR.
May God bless that lil fella and his family. This is just too heavy for a Friday morning. Hopefully a
will be up soon.
But
is that Maxine Shaw, Attorney at Law in the first pic?
!*LaKErCHiC@*! says:
CAN WE GET A PLEEEEEASE SAANDRITA ITS FRIDAY AND THIS POST WELL CAN WE JUST GET A NEW ONE
Like a bish!
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Hey Lakes!
LTL U stoopid! LOL Maxine Shaw..
Morning @Mamacity, @Fayla, @Lakerchica
Feline Feminine in the flesh says:
I saw coverage of this on AC360 last night…what made me angry was when he say “I understand that what I did may have been wrong…”
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Long live the perp walk…it’s being challenged in court to stop this process.
@LTL
Wow, the resemblance IS uncanny…
@FAY & FELINE MORNIIING LADIES
<GROUP!
@Mama
(sorry I misspelled your name)
WTF does he mean “may” have been wrong??? MAY? He can’t be serious…
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IKR? This just further proves he’s got a very sick mind…this poor little baby…
THEY SHOULD PUT HIM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PRISON AND LET THE INMATES HAVE AT HIM :coffe: SICK BASTARD!! HOW CAN U HAVE A SOUL AND DO SUCH A HORRIBLE CRIME TO A CHILD THE TERROR THE HELPELNESS OF THE CHILD LORD PLEASE HELP US!
This story saddens me to no end. I can’t imagine the fear that was in that baby’s heart.
Good Morning All
@MIRSM
MOOOORNING LADY!
SMH…so sad and twisted. I’m in NY right now visiting, and passed by that area 2 days ago wondering why there were so many news vans out there, now I know why. R.I.P lil man!
Morning FeFe & Lakes
Good Morning Everyone.
FIRST THINGS FIRST….SOMEONE NEEDS TO CHANGE THEIR GRAVI BACK TO THE BEAUTIFUL WOMAN I HAVE GROWN TO LOVE….
NOW, I swear fo’ GAWD they bett not give this nigga an insanity defense. Yes, it takes a SICK individual to do what he did, BUT he had time to think about what he was going to do. He had him for a while, went to work while he was still tied up AND CAME HOME TO FEED THIS POOR LITTLE BOY! There is nothing CLINICALLY INSANE about that to me…IT’S JUST PLAIN SICK & DEMENTED!
@TATT FIRST OFF MORNING
SECOND I KNOW THATS RIGHT HE PLANED THIS CHIT HE WENT TO WORK LIKE NOTHING CAME HOME AND KILLED HIM SO U HAD ALL DAY… THIS SUBJECT THIS PERSON JUST MAKES ME MAD 
I hope they’re looking into this man’s past, because, ummm, I don’t think Leiby is his first victim.
Police said Aron, who is divorced, lives alone in an attic in a building shared with his father and uncle.
Kelly said it was “totally random” that Aron grabbed the boy, and aside from a summons for urinating in public, he had no criminal record. A neighbor told authorities her son had said Aron had once tried to lure him into his car, but nothing happened and she didn’t think much of it until the news of the killing, police said.
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THIS is F-ing INSANE (To ME !!!)
The SAD Reality is their going to do EVERYTHING within Their Power to keep me SAFE within Jail (Just a DAN SHAME…)
:hugs: @Tatted
@ELOVE
MOOOORNING 
@ Lakes…..YOU GOT THAT CHIT RIGHT! IT MAKES MY SKIN CRAWL. ESPECIALLY SINCE I’VE HAD TWO (2) FRIENDS WHILE I WAS STILL A CHILD KILLED BY DEMENTED PEOPLE. IT TEARS ME UP INSIDE!
ELove says:
Police said Aron, who is divorced, lives alone in an attic in a building shared with his father and uncle.
Kelly said it was “totally random” that Aron grabbed the boy, and aside from a summons for urinating in public, he had no criminal record. A neighbor told authorities her son had said Aron had once tried to lure him into his car, but nothing happened and she didn’t think much of it until the news of the killing, police said.
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THIS is F-ing INSANE (To ME !!!)
The SAD Reality is their going to do EVERYTHING within Their Power to keep me SAFE within Jail (Just a DAN SHAME…)
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Exactly. Sorry, but, if you try to lure my kids, either me or Daddy is kicking that azz, then the police will be involved. I just don’t understand how that woman thought nothing of someone trying to lure her son.
Fefeeeeeeeeeee……
(that was one of those big ‘ol rocking hugs)
Heyyyyy Tatted
Heeeey MIRS……HOW YOU’S DOING?
Gimme your email again. I have one or two more pics to forward you. I think I know it by heart, but wanna make sure.
*didnt read article* but is it me or does the lady officer look like she holding some cheeks back there
Jesus be a comforter and healer cause all parties involved truly need it
This is beyond sad/heartbreaking
SN I can’t wait for the parents 1st TV interview IF they decide to do one later on down the road
Morning all…..I can’t comment on the topic. Everyone’s said what needed to be said. Praying for the family and the community….
NY doesnt have a death penalty so somebody would have to take it in their own hands to off this crazy dude.
@KABYEYOU
Actually I DID Notice (Just That VERY Thing…)
Whaddup @FeFe
Morning MY Peach
It is just as foolish to trust someone because of their religion as it is to hate someone because of their religion.
Im not talking about the little boy i’m talking about the adults who seem to think their community is above mental illness, abuse, and think their community is incapable of producing psychopaths.
Tatted Diva AKA The Makeup Maven says:
Heeeey MIRS……HOW YOU’S DOING?
Gimme your email again. I have one or two more pics to forward you. I think I know it by heart, but wanna make sure.
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mirsmommy0806 @ yahoo
Wath wong TaBewski? This is supposedly an artist rendition of Rhi in 10 years
GM Mirs
“This is a no-crime area,”
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Translation: “There are no minorities in this area.”
People need to stop thinking that because blacks and hispanics aren’t in a neighborhhod, it is deemed SAFE.
THERE IS A JEFFREY DAHMER IN EVERY WHITE NEIGHBORHOOD
YOU MAKE ME SICK, FAY!
@ MIRS…I thought so… okay sending. (Fay you already got these)
This story makes me
datsmdubya2u says it is just as foolish to trust someone because of their religion as it is to hate someone because of their religion.
Im not talking about the little boy i’m talking about the adults who seem to think their community is above mental illness, abuse, and think their community is incapable of producing psychopaths.
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Right just like the AMISH community thought the same thing when that man came in and killed those kids in the school and they live in LA LA land, it can haapen to anybody anywhere no indoctrinated religion is above reproach,
Why do people always have to make everything about race? :rollseyes:
They said it’s a no-crime area cause that section of Brooklyn has virtually zero crime…the community is mostly Hasidic…they’re a very tight-knit group and usually peaceful people. Sorta like Amish but in the city.
And I don’t think anybody thinks they’re “above” mental illness and abuse…But if you’ve lived somewhere all your life and it’s been virtually free of that stuff, then your outlook on life might be different.
At the end of the day, if this sicko didn’t do it to this little boy, he would have done it to another. Nobody wins….I just
for all the families involved — even his.
My heart goes out to his mother! My so has just turn 12 and I was always protective of him because I know folks are silly. My husband always said I was hurtign him by never letting him go out and do things. Well one day he wanted to be a big boy and go to the stor for me. The store is not that far away. I was so hesitant and even said, “No!” three times. He insisted he’s a big boy and I never let him do anything.
Well I spoke to him on his cell phone in the store. Everything was good and he called and told me he was 1 1/2 away from home. I hung up and to minutes later he comes running in the house bloody and bruised. Seven boys jumped kicked beat him for $12.00 change AND pulled a gun on him. They were just passing through the neighborhood looking for trouble, so far from their city. My heart broke as a mother because I let him go and was not around to protect him. That happened this March and I am still heartbroken about it! My prayers go out to this family!
Hello ALL!
You know I live in Brooklyn, NY and say what you will about the Hasidim – – this is a community to be admired and respected!!!
I am of African-American heritage and I must say that the folks in the Black and Hispanic communities can AND should take a lesson on how well the people in said community get along and actually PULL Together in a crisis!
Basically there are a few bad elements in our respective communities who don’t mind taking a life and we see here in this particular community how the people rallied around the little boy’s parents to help them S-A-V-E a Life!!!
So PULEESEE People Let’s get our Houses in order and stop Dis-Respecting One Another and show the Kind of love that was demonstrated in this particular community in Brooklyn the other day!
In closing, Kudos go out to the mothers in other communities who showed love to the little boy’s parents by dropping by and paying their respects.
GBO
A Lover of Brooklyn
renegadesince1985 says:
Why do people always have to make everything about race?
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Because in the “REAL WORLD” we live in, unfortunately that’s what it’s all about.
However, I’m not a racist, but I live in reality. NO NEIGHBORHOOD is safe. Especially in these days and times. This is about naivete and at the end of the day because of people being naive, race is a huge factor in deeming a neighborhood or a city “safe” or “unsafe.”
Evil doesn’t dicriminate. The devil can influence anyone to kill at anytime in any place. As a result, this killing happened in this “peaceful” Hasidic community.
I’m sure you realize that people in this world stereotype minority areas as “unsafe.”
i would even want to touch this mother azz f’ker… i would have blacked out f’ed him up.. i wish i was representing him… ill kick his azz in court.. and then plead temporary insantity.. i hate this devil
Devastating!
Is there really a such thing as a no crime area? Obviously NOT! 7 blocks is far for a 9 y o
I went to school in another hasidic jewish neighborhood, and I think people are reading too much into the no crime and linking it to their rand their religion, when their are many non hasidic non jewish people who frequent these neighborhoods on daily. We had our incidents while I was in school, so I guess I can’t co sign that. Its just terribly sad what that happens to that little boy. As of today, his parents don’t know the full details of how he died.
@ LaTechGrad02: Yes, but only for criminals convicted of killing cops. This sick guy is charged with 2nd degree murder. 1st degree murder is only for cop killers in NY.
WOW @ Precious1’s story!
THANK GOD your son is still alive and was not murdered!!!!
Bad things DO happen to GOOD people all the time and please just continue to teach your son to be confident, a leader and how to protect himself even if you have to buy and show him how to use a stun gun or some pepper spray!…boys are especially resilient!
AND PLEASE listen to your SPIRIT!
You know we Mommies have that “instinct” and 100% when we listen to it we’re right! Smiles!
Wow @ precious1.
That is so incredibly sad! My heart breaks for you and your son. My mom and I were overprotective of my nephew too. We sheltered him so he couldn’t go anywhere without a family member with him. My brother drove him to school every morning. One day, when he was 9, I let him walk to the corner store for the first time alone. My mom fussed and fussed as we watched him walk to the store. But I told her he needed his independence. Even though we could see him from the window of our living room, my heart still felt heavy knowing he could be snatched off the street in the blink of an eye. He made it home safely, but I feel your pain. 
According to NBCNewYork.com:
“As Aron was led into and out of the courtroom, other prisoners awaiting arraignment at the courthouse could be heard jeering and yelling at him.”
He is dead meat in prison. Those prisoners don’t play when it comes to child murderers.
GOD bless the family and friends of this child!!! GOD bless us all…
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@Yall (In Regard to Comment #78)
Here in Chicago a Sun-Times investigative reporter Reported that LAST YEAR Alone OF THE 500+ Convicted Child-Molesters ONLY 7 served Jail-Time and Their Jail sentence didn’t EXCEED 3 Months (Or Something Like That…)
ELove, & that’s some BS. We are paying MUCHO DINERO for this prison system, that has no rehabilitative services!!!
It’s all bs, cops in on it, judges in on it, lawyers in on it, EVERYBODY’S GETTING PAID and nobody is fixing the problems…
I’d advise all to go to that website that informs you of the names and addresses of the child predators. Just enter your zipcode. Some people just don’t know who lives around them…..
Little Lieby is all of ours kid. And if this super sick monster gets out, he will do this again… Are we to blame for not holding OUR GOV’T accountable for not keeping us safe?!?!
I am really heated about this here…..
Hi Sandra!
@ your comment you’re right about independence, however, I believe with a watchful eye just like you were in your living room looking…
No one should tell another person how to raise their own child but there should be protective barriers (certain laws) in place to protect the safety and future of our younger generations.
I mentioned in the other post yesterday about having a law where children have to be accompanied to a certain age. I’m already getting in touch with my local representative about a sidewalk in my busy neighborhood and I’m definitely going to inquire about children being guarded in the public too.
So many children lost this year to senseless violence and murder!
RIP angels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn…this is so sad. This is going to weigh heavily on Leiby’s parents for the rest of their lives. I know folks in this community felt something this tragic could never happen because there was virtually NO crime; however, anywhere there are human beings there is the potential for crime. My condolences to the family.
OAN, it is good to see the outpouring of love and support from the Hasidic community for this child. I echo others sentiments that the black community could definitely take a page from this community in terms of togetherness and support of one another.
It is a no-crime area because the Orthodox Jews and Hasidim are very strict. In their laws they are no allowed to inform/sue/accuse other Jews to the non-Jewish. They handle things internally. The area has its own security, ambulances, the whole nine. They are shocked not because of the crime but because it was one of their own that committed it.
Trust, ain’t no city letting Black folks roll around strapped, pulling folks over with sirens, like New York lets the more observant Jewish communities do. That’s just real talk.
They got something waiting on him in jail
Looks at the officer escorting him to the car and now I know that Mystical’s hair dresser must be in the WP program in NY from her signature style being rocked through out the boroughs.
This is some sick and sad ish!!! I blame the parents-in this world we living in you have to keep a close eye on your kids!!! Take responsibility for your children..:peace: