OMG What is wrong with people?
 

NYC boy's gruesome killing shocks community - Yahoo! News



Did you guys see this??

NEW YORK (AP) — Walking home alone from day camp for the first time, 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky disappeared.
A day-and-a-half search led police to the Brooklyn home of a man seen on a surveillance video with the young Orthodox Jewish child. They asked: Where is the boy?
The man nodded toward the kitchen, authorities said, where blood stained the freezer door. Inside was the stuff of horror films — severed feet, wrapped in plastic. In the refrigerator, a cutting board and three bloody carving knives. A plastic garbage bag with bloody towels was nearby.
"It is every parent's worst nightmare," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday, following the arrest of 35-year-old Levi Aron on a charge of second-degree murder.
Leiby disappeared Monday afternoon while on his way to meet his mother on a street corner seven blocks from his day camp, the first time the young Hasidic child was allowed to walk the route alone. Authorities said he had evidently gotten lost after missing a turn, and had reached out to Aron, a stranger, for help.
The gruesome killing shocked the tight-knit Hasidic community in Borough Park, in part because it is one of the safest sections of the city and because Aron is himself an Orthodox Jew, although not Hasidic. The Hasidim are ultra-Orthodox Jews.
"This is a no-crime area," said state Assemblyman Dov Hikind, whose district includes the area. "Everybody is absolutely horrified," he said. "Everyone is in total shock, beyond belief, beyond comprehension ... to suddenly disappear and then the details ... and the fact someone in the extended community ... it's awful."
While the medical examiner's office said it was still investigating how the boy was killed, the body was released so that the boy could be buried Wednesday evening according to Jewish custom.
Thousands gathered around a Borough Park synagogue for the funeral service. Speakers broadcast over a loudspeaker, chanting and speaking in Yiddish and Hebrew. They stressed the community's resilience and unity after what one called an unnatural death.
"This is not human," said Moses Klein, 73, a retired caterer who lives near the corner where the boy was last seen.
The break in the case came when investigators watched a grainy video that showed the boy, wearing his backpack, getting into a car with a man outside a dentist's office. Detectives tracked the dentist down at his home in New Jersey, and he remembered someone coming to pay a bill. Police identified Aron using records from the office, and 40 minutes later he was arrested, shortly before 3 a.m. Wednesday.
Aron told police where to find the rest of the body; it was in pieces, wrapped in plastic bags, inside a red suitcase that had been tossed into a trash bin in another Brooklyn neighborhood, Kelly said.
Police said there was no evidence the boy was sexually assaulted, but they would not otherwise shed any light on a motive except to say Aron told them he "panicked" when he saw photos of the missing boy on fliers that were distributed in the neighborhood. Police were looking into whether Aron had a history of mental illness.
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.
He lived most of his life in New York and worked as a clerk at a hardware supply store around the corner from his home, authorities said. Co-workers said Aron was at work on Tuesday.
"He seemed a little troubled," said employee Chamin Kramer, who added Aron usually came and went quietly.
Aron lived briefly in Memphis, Tenn., and his ex-wife, Deborah Aron, still lives in the area. She said he never showed signs of violence toward her two children from a previous relationship.
"It's utter disbelief," she said from the toy-littered backyard of her home in the Memphis suburb of Germantown. "This ain't the Levi I know."
Deborah Aron said the couple divorced about four years ago after a year of marriage. She described Levi Aron as a person who was shy until he got to know you and said he enjoyed music, karaoke and "American Idol." She said he attended Orthodox Jewish services in Memphis.
He was "more of a mother's boy than a father's boy," who lived at home until he met her, she said.
She said Levi injured his head when he was hit by a car while riding his bike at the age of 9 and suffered problems stemming from that accident.
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Associated Press Writers Karen Matthews and Karen Zraick in New York and Adrian Sainz in Memphis, Tenn., contributed to this report.

I honestly think the devil lives in so many people on this earth, this is so sad and horrible. What is wrong with people?

That is so disturbing and disgusting. Ugh. I can't even... ugh. No words. What a disgusting human being. I wish they would do the same thing to this man and make him suffer.

Another reminder that parents should never trust their child to be walking any streets alone. I think it used to be different, you could trust people more. Nowadays, you just can't. 8 years is much too young to be walking anywhere alone. My brother is 7 1/2 and I can't even imagine allowing him to do such a thing. I still walk him to the bathroom at restaurants and stand by the door.

That poor little boy. So innocent. May he RIP and I hope his family finds peace somehow within this, but I highly doubt they will. That family and mother of the little boy will be a mess for the rest of their lives and I feel for them. :(

It is Brit, it is very sad. People are sick! I wish they would do the same thing to him as well, he needs to suffer for this.

I agree, 8 years old is too young to be walking on the streets of NY, I dont care how safe the area is! Esp these days! Way to many evil people out there.

My heart breaks for them.

Wish I hadn't read this. Breaks your heart and makes you feel sick.
You are so right my friend OMG what is wrong with people. The answer is no God in their heart. When you really know God he writes his love, laws, and morals on your heart.

Its sick. That poor family

I have been sick over this. I think the devil came to Brooklyn that day. Now he says he hears voices and is on a suicide watch.
I just don't understand. Why??? why??? why??? why did he have to kill him??? Why did he have to cut him up???

He just looked like any other dopey 8yr old walking along the street. He asks for directions and this monster does this to him. I just don't understand. This is the reason I don't sleep at night. If you have children this is the reason you don't sleep!!!

It is just heartbreaking. Can't even wrap my mind around this.

I hope that boy rests in peace. His final moments must have been torturous. He was suffocated with a towel. The perp has scratches on his arms indicating that the boy fought for his life.

I thought about this all day! It just sickens me! The devil was def in this guy, and still is. How sick! I feel so bad for this family. The poor little boy, what he must have went thru he was probably so scared.

He is in Gods hands with Caylee. I swear if I hear one more person killing a sweet little baby I am going to loose it!

It is sad and sickening beyond words. My heart aches unbearably when children are harmed, and this is a frightening reality in our world.

I think in the day we are now living there are not any neighborhoods that are safe. We are living in a sick society with alot of weird, scary people out there. My heart goes out to these parents so much. They will blame themselves more than likely forever. How sad.

I honestly don't see any reason that a person like this man should live any longer. He didn't even think it was totally wrong so that shows he's a nutcase. what good comes from him living? i know it's harsh, but creatures like that are not better off in jail and alive. he is evil and would be better off for everyone around if he got the death penalty and was just put down. it's like a rabid wild animal on the loose. why cage it to make it more angry and crazy. just put it down and rid the world of the terror.

Disturbing................

That poor little boy and what he went through and now what his parents are going through makes one physically ill if you think much about it. I think I've heard they are trying to peg this guy as a schizophrenic(?spelling?) or something - we'll see if that pans out. The horrible, violent TV, books, video games, magazines, movies, videos, music and generalized weirdness that passes for entertainment has got to be causing a great deal of this type of inhumanity in an "enlightened" society. You practically NEVER heard stories like this 30-40-50 years ago when most family units stayed together and went to church together. I am horrified at 3/4 of the things I see advertised for entertainment these days! Can't tell me that a steady diet of that sort of rot doesn't affect people adversely. I just pray that this family and their neighborhood can get through this with the peace of that passes all understanding and one day find healing from such terrible grief.

I saw this on the news the other day. This man is pure evil. I guarantee this is not the 1st or 10th time this man did this kind of murder.

Sending prayers for that poor boy and his family. No child should ever have that happen to them and no family should have to endure what that poor family must be living with....