RO: Eight year old boy murdered and dismembered

This is all over the news here. The story is so horrific I’m obeying the two click rule and providing a link to the Google page.

Here in a spoiler box is the terrible story

[spoiler]Leibby Kletzky, was supposed to meet his family on his walk home from day camp in Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighbourhood but never arrived.

Police said they had surveillance video of the boy, who they believe had got lost while walking home, getting into a car with a man a few blocks from the park.

A 35-year-old man, Levi Aron, who also lived in the borough’s tightly knit Orthodox Jewish community, was apprehended in his third floor attic apartment on 466 East 2nd Street in Brooklyn, in a building shared with his father and uncle.

When police arrived to arrest him at around 2:40am, the door was ajar. They asked him where the boy was and he nodded towards the kitchen.

Detectives saw blood on the refrigerator door and opened it to discover the feet inside, wrapped in plastic bags.

A cutting board and three bloody carving knives were in the refrigerator and a plastic rubbish bag with bloody towels was found nearby.

Mr Aron told police where to find the rest of the body. It was in pieces, wrapped in black plastic bags, inside a red suitcase that had been tossed into a rubbish bin in another Brooklyn neighbourhood.

Aron was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder. 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.

New York Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly said it appears that Kletzky’s encounter with Aron appeared to be “totally random”. [/spoiler]

There is no puncishment servere enough for this savage.

The thought that struck me first reading this yesterday, as I suppose it would with most any crime, is simply “Why?” What on Earth could be the reason, what could compel any person to that to a child? Has any reason been offered yet? if so, is it even in the slightest bit comprehensible?

Reason? Dude’s a friggin’ psychopath. There’s no ‘reason’ someone would do something like that.

The accused was known by the victims family it seems. However, I am sure that this will ratchet up the ‘stranger danger’ fears just a bit more.

This sort of reminds me of an Oprah episode where this security guy demonstrated to mothers how easy it was to get a child to get into his van to “look for his puppy”.

Utterly tragic… trying to figure out his brain might lead to something… perhaps not…

I am thinking some sort of mental illness leading to delusions. I once had a client tell me she saw demons hovering over her new baby’s crib. I persuaded her to go the ER. She was hospitalized for awhile until a decent medicine regime could be found, but later released.

Existing thread in IMHO.

I, for one, will go out on a limb and say that murdering and butchering children is, most likely, improper in certain circumstances.

I would like to go on record stating that I strongly disapprove of killing small children and keeping their severed feet in the freezer.

+1

Yeah everyone knows they get really bad freezer burn that way. Better to leave them in the vegetable crisper.

That’s fucking awful.
Responsible child-killers compost leftover feet.

Don’t know. He might be on the crazy side, given the specifics of the crime.

“… on the crazy side…”

Gee, ya think?

What would be the purpose of such punishment?

I have no problem with the idea that this guy should get the Ol Yeller treatment. He’s got the hydrophobia, so the only solution is to put a bullet in his brain. But that wouldn’t be punishment, it would be compassionate.

Or, we could subject him to increasingly severe punishments until he finally dies. But what FOR?

Why, to ensure that other crazy people know that cutting up small children is wrong, of course.

Sigh.

True. It could simply be that nobody ever communicated that message adequately to this guy.

I can’t believe how you people make jokes about something like this! What if it was the other way around, and it was the kid who murdered and chopped up the man? You wouldn’t find it so funny then, would you!?

Just goes to show…

New reports say he was a stranger. Kid just asked him for directions and he got the kid into his car.

This was the first time he was allowed to leave his school by himself - he was supposed to meet his mom a few blocks away. That just has to be such a kick in the gut. The first time you let your little boy have that little taste of freedom and then he’s gone. That whole community won’t let their kids out of their sight for a second now.