Suspect in Dismembering of 8-Year-Old Brooklyn Boy Recently Joined ‘Is Your Family Safe?’ Facebook Group
- Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:31pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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Two parents’ worst nightmare unfortunately came true Wednesday when their eight-year-old missing son was found brutally murdered and dismembered, his body parts divided between a dumpster and freezer.
Leiby Kletzky, a boy from a Hasidic family in Brooklyn, vanished while walking home from his Yeshiva school Monday. Police launched massive search effort shortly after Kletzky went missing, but all hope of finding the boy alive vanished when his dismembered body was found divided between a random dumpster and a freezer located in the the killer’s apartment.
Kletzky was allegedly abducted by 35-year-old Levi Aron while walking the seven blocks from Boyan Day Camp on 44th Street to his home in Brooklyn.
While on his walk, Kletzky lost his way and stopped to ask Aron for directions. Tragedy then struck when Aron kidnapped the boy and later suffocated and dismembered him with a kitchen knife.
The Daily Mail reports that Aron confessed to the crime:
After being tracked down by police, Aron is said to have confessed to the brutal murder, saying he killed the child ‘in a panic’ after the search for the boy became high profile.
Police said Leiby stopped Aron to ask for directions after getting lost the first time he was allowed to walk home alone from summer camp.
‘35 minutes later Leiby was in a 1990 brown Honda Accord with Levi Aron, who subsequently brought the boy to his apartment, killed him there and then dismembered his body,’ Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
‘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.’
Aron, who works as a clerk in Kensington, was seized by police after he was spotted with the child on CCTV.
But what do we know about the suspect and what would drive him to commit such a heinous crime against a sweet, innocent child? The Mail reports that Aron is divorced and has no children of his own but actually looked after his former step-children. Aron’s ex-wife was apparently in disbelief over the revelation that Aron confessed to murdering a young child. She tells The Mail:
‘I am in shock. I am not believing this,’ Debbie Kivel, 34, told The Post. ‘He loved children. He loved kids. My kids are now 13 and 10, but when we were married they were younger – and he loved them.’
The former couple met online, married in 2006 but split up a year later because of a ‘clash of character,’ she said, adding, of their relationship: ‘It was more like brother sister.’
Kivel’s father Michael, however, had less kind words to say about his former son-in-law, who he said was a “creepy person” and a Hebrew School drop-out
Aron has reportedly lived in a flat above his parents’ house and worked as a stock clerk in a local store. Coworkers allegedly found him “antisocial.”
In another strange twist, the suspect’s Facebook page revealed he practices Kabbalah — or Jewish mysticism — and recently joined a group titled: “IS YOUR FAMILY SAFE? Find out who really lives in your area!” The group reportedly exposes local rapists and child molesters.
The Mail reports that Community Rabbi Bernard Freilich told WNBC that Leiby’s parents are “devastated.” It was the very first time they let their son walk home from school alone.
Assemblyman Dov Hikind told NY1 that he’d ”never seen a community feel more depression than they are at the moment,‘ and that ’whoever did this is sick beyond belief.’
Below is a video discussing the crime:
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Comments (77)
dontbotherme
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 1:13pmGod bless the family & the community family. That poor little boy is in Gods arms.
Report Post »Gypsy123
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 1:07pmIf you trust the streets in the USA as safe for any family member you are mental and living in Fantasy land. I shop at Wallmart the hispanics let their little kids run all over the store no matter what age it is just stupid to do that
Report Post »wewantchillywilly
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 9:38amtwo bullets to the back of the head. how could anybody protest that?
Report Post »Mapache
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 1:18pmDrop him off on the streets of Karachi Pakistan
Report Post »tom
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 8:42amPray for the family, how tragic! It is also tragic that Obama hand picked Kevin Jennings as of all things, school safety CZAR!!! Jennings an openly and published pedophile wacko, who wanted to homosexualize school children. (His own words.) Now how can you say our so called president cares about our children. Vote Obama out in 2012, Jennings has already stepped down. Obama is so radical over his gay agenda to the point he obviously doesn’t care who he puts in charge of our school children. Leave our children alone!
Report Post »MOLLYPITCHER
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 6:36amIn the early part of the 20th century there was a man named, I believe Robert Fish. He was a child rapist and cannibal. It’s a horrible story, but it shows that the world has never been perfectly safe for children. This story just reminded me of that. These things seem to increasing. Pray for this family.
Report Post »samsmama
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 8:31amI will
Report Post »MOLLYPITCHER
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 6:30amThis makes me want to puke. My son is 7. I live in a very small, very safe town. Even so, I would never let him walk through town alone.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 2:13amI want to throw up from this story. The parents were trying to give their child a sense of independence, and it all went horribly wrong.
Things have changed for the worst, since I was a small child. We now have – “it’s OK to want to have sex with your pet dog”, just a “normal” variation, since we no longer can say that homosexuals have a mental disorder. We also are accepting of the guy in the foxhole doing someone “doggie style”. Of course, there is also the “men who love boys” society.
This is the derogation of USA norms. Currently, these sickos are forcing their disgusting beliefs on innocent elementary kids, under the pretense that there is a large population of sexual deviants. The sexual deviants in this Country are about 2%, but they claim 12% to 20%, which is an outright lie.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 2:22amI just want to add that my beliefs are not based on my religious beliefs. I look at homosexuals as trying to put a square peg into a round hole. To me, it never was intended to be.
Report Post »BULLHORSEY
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 8:25amHey, you are absolutely correct
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:05pmYea but science has found homosexuality in the animal kingdom so if it was never “meant to be?” what do you think of that fact?
Report Post »littleGizmo
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:52pm@cesium, which scientific findings are you referring to? Being that homosexuality is evolutionarily unfavorable I am very wary about the legitimacy of your source
Report Post »patriotwoman
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 5:26pmCesium: It just means there are deviants in the animal world too. It doesn‘t mean it’s normal.
Report Post »ArizonaMom3
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 6:48pm@cesium
Report Post »hey goofy, my sister’s little dog humps the furniture leg and anything else he can reach – “what do you think of that fact?”
In The Right
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 2:08ambzombo:
NOT “homicide” charges for the parents, “Child Endangerment” charges should be filed against the parent who decided to let him walk home alone. This will be easy to prove (unless the jury is stacked with Casey Anthony types) and doing so will serve as a warning to other parents like the mother in Newark N.J. that send HER eight year old son out to buy soda at 11pm who then gets “got” (gunned down) in a drive-by as happened recently despite a curfew (in Newark).
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 9:58amChild endangerment charges for the parents?Talk about the letter of the law and not the spirit? How callous and cruel can you get?Jesus admonished people like you!
Report Post »bzombo
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 1:54amWhat an ignorant response. The parents are wrong for letting their 8 year old son walk home, but it does not warrant homicide charges. Are you for real?
Report Post »In The Right
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 1:51amI support Israel and it‘s right to maintain it’s current borders. I think Israel naive for surrendering the Sinai Peninsula won from Egypt in the war.
I detest apologists for parents who have culpability in their sons death which could have easily been prevented. Those that excuse the parents neglect are woefully uninformed about the violent crime rate in NYC.
Only the perpetrator of the heinous act in killing the defenseless (because of his parents absence) eight year old boy should face death penalty.
The Hasidic & Ultra-Orthodox communities must admit that their young, vulnerable members being from a “closed” society like some Amish & Mormons face dangers that they are not well prepared for or accustomed to in our cities.
The fact remains after all is said and done that an eight year old boy was left to a predator in his OWN “community” due to the apparent neglect of his parents something that should never been allowed to happen and for that they MUST answer whether in a court of law and to their creator on Judgement Day. I don’t want sympathy for the parents loss to override the lack of common sense in their actions, let a jury decide (only AFTER the sadistic murderer is convicted).
As for AG Comrade Eric “Red Menace” Holder & The Minstrel-like Mulatto Marxist Barack HUSSEIN Obama I can only hope they meet the same fates as John “The Syphillitic Philanderer” Fitzgerald Kennedy and his Rat-Faced brother Bobby “I Can’t Keep It In My Pants” Kenne
Report Post »woodrowsux
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 1:16amI agree- throw the book at these parents for their horrific negligent homicide. The fact that they live in a ‘closed community’ of Hassidim makes these parents especially guilty and perhaps explains why this young boy was ‘probably autistic’ as they were punished for their crimes against humanity with their son’s horrific diagnosis of autism and now his murder. If authorities find out that the Kletsky family supports Israel then I’m sure “in the right” will demand the only verdict this greiving family deserves… death by gas chamber. This post was approved by Eric Holder, Barack Obama, mahmoud Achmadenijad, and Adolph HitlerIII along with of course- IN THE RIGHT
Report Post »mchurchwell
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:58amWhy was an 8 year old allowed to walk anywhere alone!?!?
Report Post »In The Right
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 1:20amThat‘s what I’ve been trying to figure out. Watch out “danilesforprez” will call you a moron.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 2:25amI walked anywhere I wanted when I was five years old. Of course that was when the sexual deviants were still declared to be deviants.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 6:28amThey were probably in a small Jewish community that had no apparent problems, and possibly he didn’t have far to go to get home. Although it does say he lost his way and asked directions. I didn’t allow my child to ride his bike around the block until he was 10.
Report Post »In The Right
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:43amI’ll reserve my prayers for the helpless boy who was left to fend for himself against the “criminal element” in our nations largest city alone. For his family I have no sympathy had they simply taken the time to walk their son home it’s highly unlikely he would be just another grim statistic.
Report Post »BULLHORSEY
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 8:28amyou are a complete idiot
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:54pmThe Right: You have no sympathy for the Family? Their child was just brutally murdered by a sex offender. Blame the criminal, not the grieving family. Where is your heart?
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:27amPlease please DO NOT assign this case to the Casey Anthony jury .
Report Post »This sicko Aron should be killed asap .
Fantastic Four
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:48ambye bye sucka no help from ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER. your not one of HIS people.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 9:44amAlready the government is mitigating on behalf of the suspect. They’re saying “he panicked” when he saw fliers all over the neighborhood about the missing boy.Like had he not seen these fliers it would never have occured to him that the boys parents and the community and law enforcement would be looking for the missing boy.“He panicked”-like this was some accident like a car going down the wrong street or something.“He panicked” being code for they won’t charge him with murder 1..Always mitigating for child killers in this country now.When i hear this knee jerk mitigating for a child murderer my inner lawless “barbarian” comes out and i want to be part of a lynch mob.[revenge IS justice].
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:16amWhat is wrong with people who murder babies and children? Only Hell can inspire this behavior.
Report Post »GRAMPA-D-NH
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:34amEvil thrives in a permissive, consequenceless, relativistic morality culture. We’re also overrun with Casey Anthony-like jurors that emboldens evil.
Report Post »npbreakthrough
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 1:32amCompassion is the simplest and most important form of respect
Report Post »love is a standard
when these are absent from a society,
so are the peace and security they afford.
npbreakthrough
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 2:02ama world devoid of compassion and love,
Report Post »i could not imagine a better definition of hell
LadyIzShy
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:11amprayers for the families.. the young boys parents must be living in hell now and I can not imagine the guilt and pain they must feel. The man who did this is sick and his family must be suffering as well.
Report Post »littleGizmo
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:08amI am sickened to my stomach with this story. May Gd comfort his family in there time of sorrow. my thoughts and prayers are with this poor family.
Report Post »Ducky 1
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:57pm@In the right……..Don’t blame the parents for letting this child walk on his own. This is a dangerous supposition. I blame the sickos that are out doing things like this. When I was 7 years old I was lost and I was okay because there were not as many creeps out there. Of course that was 55 years ago.
Report Post »kkentucky
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:15amAgreed! Maybe if people who prey on children were imprisioned more to the number of years drug dealers are then there would be less of these horrific animals in our communities. I am not sticking up for the drug dealers, but when they get 25 years first time offence and a child molestor or child pornographer gets 36 months, there is something wrong with our system. You can not fix animals like this.
Report Post »In The Right
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:35amThe perpetrator should be subjected to the Death Penalty but the demented Liberals in NY State made sure that is no longer a punishment for cop and child killers. We must remember all the facts are not in yet and if the parents neglect for failing to escort their son home contributed to his demise they too should face charges no matter how large the outpouring of sympathy for their loss.
Report Post »USAMama
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 10:36amIn The Right:
I disagree with you, to charge the family would be a tragedy in and of itself. They did not kill this child, we need to stop blaming victims who did nothing wrong, we continue to blur the line between true crimes and tragic mistakes. How many children walk home from school or bus stops every day? When I was in school we had the “walkers” who lived close to the school so they weren’t given a bus to ride. I knew kids who had a block or more to walk from their bus stops. This could happen to any kid at any time, not because they have to walk somewhere but because there are sick monsters out there who prey on children. If not this kid, it may have been someone else. We need to put the blame on the actual problem and quit blaming the innocent victims.
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:55pmThoughts & prayers to the boy & especially the family. Even in a highly religious & tight nit community evil can still prosper. Interesting that all the names are Biblical & the horror of this crime is Biblical in proportion …
Report Post »Carl McPherson
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:50pmThankfully, now my wife has started listening to me about not letting our 12 yr old daughter walk ANYWHERE without us.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:20amYep. That will help teach her how to look out for herself. How in the world will she grow to be a strong young woman? If you live in a place that is THAT dangerous – MOVE!! No matter how much you love her you cannot hold her hand forever.
That kind of thinking allows the bad guys to win.
Report Post »BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:48amWhen my daughter was 4-years old I had a friend/neighbor (probably the most devout Christian I have ever met) who had two daughters of her own ages 9 and 11 if I remember correctly. I asked her one day how she could let her daughters play outside in the front yard and ride their bikes around the block without parental supervision? She said, I trust God to keep them safe and courage for myself to accept his will. I know a lot pf people will still say she was irresponsible for believing this. But- what other choices, as parents, do we have? Raise our children in a prison-like environment while those deserving of a prison-like environment roam free? Myself, we allow are daughter to take walks and ride her bike in our area. But, she carries a cell phone with her at all times and we have trained her to be observant of her surroundings. She will be 17 tomorrow, but has had quite a bit of freedom since she was 12 or 13. I think it is more responsible for parents to protect their children so much up until they are old enough to leave the house and then throw them out into the world without any street skills to protect themselves. God does not promise us even one more day. We need to love our children and pray for them daily.
Report Post »BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:51amoops- I meant our daughter. And it is more irresponsible for parents to over-protect their children.
Report Post »ShyMan
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:49pmThat poor family.
God be with you.
Report Post »Mike_AYoungConservative
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:45pmReally sick article. My heart goes out to the parents of this young child. They must be devastated! I almost don’t even want to mention the Irony in this story… It’s sad…
Report Post »In The Right
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:44pmHad this child not been sequestered in one of Americas “closed” societies he may have learned to be wary of strangers (even those in his own “community”). The parents MUST be charged with neglect for allowing a child so young to roam the streets unescorted.
Report Post »MyPostingName
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:55pm“The parents MUST be charged with neglect for allowing a child so young to roam the streets unescorted.”
Seriously, that’s your response. You must have some pinned up hate to make that statement. You might want to consider changing your posting name.
Report Post »danielsforprez
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:05amYou’re a moron for two reasons. 1st of all, even if youre right, there’s a time and place for everything. How sick do you have to be that your first reaction is blame the parents instead of sympathizing with them. 2nd of all, 99.5 percent of abductions are not by complete strangers. So if you think that by teaching your kids not to talk to strangers they‘ll be ok then you’re a fool. So shut up and do some research you heartless low-life.
Report Post »In The Right
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 12:30amYOU don’t know the geography of the neighborhood as I do. The seven blocks are long by any standard and the traffic in that area as well as crosswalks hazardous for adults never mind children. There have been teens who have gone missing, abducted walking home from work or applying for a job in the middle of the day later been found raped & murdered not far from where this UNESCORTED boy was snatched.
There are all sorts of problems in that area just google “Gavin Cato, Yankel Rosenbaum & Limerick Nelson” (Crown Heights Riots & how they started). Additionally automobile/truck/bus vs pedestrian accidents are COMMON and fatalities are not unheard of, even standing on the corner waiting for the traffic light to change people have been struck and killed by cars/trucks jumping the curb. Though the tight knit, generally law abiding Hasidic community itself is rather crime free the surrounding area is one of violent crime and statistics prove my assertion.
There is NO reason for a child of eight should to be left to fend for himself in that area no matter what time of day and the parents could have prevented his tragic death had they exercised caution in our nations largest city. The parents MUST be charged with neglect (let a jury of their peers decide their guilt or innocence) and if it is confirmed this boy suffered from ANY “developmental” difficulties as I suppose it makes their absence in his walk home all the more heinous.
Report Post »In The Right
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 1:16amdanielsforprez:
There is a reason eight year old children are considered “minors” it‘s because they haven’t developed the faculties needed to make decisions like “adults” thus asking directions from a member of ones own community is understandable (but can be dangerous as in this situation). That neighborhood in Brooklyn has NYPD on constant foot & car patrol all this boy had to do was ask a UNIFORMED police officer or Traffic Agent (they’re ALWAYS ticketing illegally parked cars and delivery trucks in that vicinity) for directions but we can’t expect him to have done so at his age. In addition that “community” being as closed as it is discourages members from contact with “outsiders” ( I experienced this first hand repairing buses for Hasidic and Ultra-Orthodox congregations) though NYPD does assign officers of obvious Hasidic and Orthodox descent ( their appearance makes them easily recognizable) in that area.
This eight year old boy wouldn’t have been such easy prey had he been accompanied by an adult or been exposed to the “world” outside his “community”. He was walking home not just from “summer camp” but again a camp reserved for those of his faith another segregation from regular society,( he likely attended a Yeshiva for regular schooling). This is not an indictment of the Hebrew faith or of the Hasidic and Ultra Orthodox communities in any way it just a fact of life in that area which is dominated by a particular faith. His parents should ha
Report Post »In The Right
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 1:19amdanielsforprez,
Name calling what a mature way to voice your opposition to my post, I bet you voted for Democrats at one time.
Report Post »danielsforprez
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 9:59amintheright:
Report Post »You can try to convince everyone here that you know the ultra orthodox community so well and that you are familiar with the neighborhood, but you’re not going to fool me. You referred to the Yankel Rosenbaum killing as proof that the neighborhood is not safe. Here’s the problem moron (yes, i’m calling you names again), Yankel Rosenbaum was killed in Crown Heights not Boro Park. They are both hasidic communities, but Boro Park is one of the safest communities in NYC and Crown Heights is far from it. I would let my 9 year old child walk there today, by himself. I know 9 seems like a very small number but I suggest you take a look around and see the maturity level of a 9 year old.(Some of the media, like TheBlaze is reporting that he was 8, but he was actually 9.) They are perfectly capable of walking in the street by themselves. Again, I reiterate that .5 of a percent of abductions are done by strangers. (There are rumors floating around the internet that Leiby actually knew his abductor, although I don‘t know if that’s true.) Your comparison of walking in Boro Park in broad daylight to someone walking at 11 pm in Newark is an absurd one. Your comment is typical of a liberal who sees everything in black and white. You are unable to use your brain to say in some situations it‘s okay to do something and in others it’s not.
In The Right
Posted on July 14, 2011 at 3:42pmOnce again “danielsforprez” you get it wrong:
It has been CONFIRMED that the eight year victim was “DEVELOPMENTALLY CHALLENGED” thus at significantly higher risk when unaccompanied on his walk home. Parents allowing a child who has “issues” to fend for himself in our nations largest city MUST be charged with “Child Endangerment” as a warning to prevent others doing so may prevent another tragic death.
As for Gavin Cato, he was killed by a car that jumped the curb and struck him as he rode his bicycle on the sidewalk thus leading to the Crown Heights Riots.
Report Post »tweigel
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:42pmThere are some very sick people in this world.
Report Post »The_Postal
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 11:41pmThoughts and prayers to the boy and his family. This is beyond words or humanity.
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