O/T Child's grisly murder shocks Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood

[Falkor]

Child's grisly murder shocks Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood
July 14th, 2011. By Dan Gilgoff and Eric Marrapodi, CNN

Brooklyn, New York (CNN) – An 8-year-old's grisly murder would shock any community, but there's an added layer of astonishment in this neighborhood because the alleged killer appears to hail from the same close-knit religious community as the victim.

On Thursday, New York police charged a 35-year-old man with the killing of Leiby Kletzky, an Orthodox Jewish boy, after officers found human remains in the man's refrigerator and a trash bin. The alleged killer also appears to be an Orthodox Jew who lived relatively nearby to Kletzky, according to community members.

"You can't possibly describe how tragic this is and how upset people are this boy was murdered by a person living in the community, who shares his religion and his neighborhood," said Ezra Friedlander, who lives in Borough Park, the neighborhood where Kletzky went missing on Monday. On Thursday, Levi Aron was arraigned on first degree murder and kidnapping charges in Brooklyn in connection with Kletzky's death.

"It would have been extremely scary if a terrorist would have come into the community and killed a boy, but when it's one of your own you feel even more vulnerable," said Friedlander, a public relations executive who represents many Orthodox Jewish clients.

Police say the 35-year-old Levi Aron made statements Wednesday implicating himself in the death of Leiby Kletzky. Kletzky was supposed to meet his parents after walking seven blocks from his summer day camp, but became lost and asked the suspect for directions, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

Working from surveillance video that showed Aron entering a dentist's office Monday while Kletzky waited for him across the street for seven minutes, police arrived at Aron's residence at 2:40 a.m. Wednesday to ask about the boy's whereabouts. The suspect pointed them to the kitchen, where blood was visible on the freezer handle. Inside the refrigerator was a cutting board with three blood-spattered carving knives, Kelly said.

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What on earth can go on in these peoples heads ffs, it so barbaric its beyond words, just so so sick. Poor lad

 

[NMH]

Well, that certainly is 'Off Topic' - but I'm curious; why post that story in particular?

It's not a stoning in Iran, a mine in Afghanistan, a peaceful protester shot dead or assassinated in Palestine, tribal hackings in Rwanda.
Murder is commonplace in America, and bits in the fridge are nothing all that new either tbh.

Anyway, where tf is Madeleine McCann?

 

[ngood77]

Get off our forum, muppet.

 

[DTES]

Well, that certainly is 'Off Topic'

There's no such thing as "On Topic" on The Big Board, is there?

Certainly a shocking story.

 

[The Ringleader Returns!]

Did anybody watch that show on BBC 2 last night? History Cold Case, or something similar.


They'd found 17 skeletons stuffed down a well in Norwich. Turns out they were from the 12th/13th centuary and had been murdered for being Jewish. 11 of them were children.


I thought this thread was going to be about that. :shrug

 

[Falkor]

i posted it as its been on the news alot over here given the circumstances surrounding the tragic childs death, being kidnapped then chopped up into bits.

Just so f***ing barbaric its beyond words