Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who represents Borough Park, said in an interview that Leiby’s grandparents, Yitzchok and Mirel Forster, had told him that the family was afraid that Mr. Aron would find a way to go free on an insanity defense. But, typically, defendants who are found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity spend years in locked psychiatric wards.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/n...ed-before-being-suffocated-official-says.html
Parents of dismembered NYC boy set up website
The Leiby Kletzky Memorial Fund website
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The family of eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky has set up a heart-wrenching tribute to the boy, who was abducted in New York City before being brutally killed.
The website, called The Leiby Kletzky Memorial Fund: Coping with Grief by Doing Good, was set up after the boy was snatched from his Jewish neighbourhood last week when he stopped to ask a stranger for directions.
He had become lost after leaving his day camp.
He was dismembered in a case that has horrified the nation, given that most culprits behind child abductions aren't strangers.
Leiby's family hopes to raise $1 million US through the fund. As of 8 a.m. ET, more than $47,000 was in the fund.
The website features photographs of Leiby as an infant and toddler and says anyone donating to the fund will help the family "accomplish all the wonderful things that Leiby would have achieved had he lived."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/07/21/dismembered-boy-charity-website.html
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/07...f-levi-aron-accused-of-killing-leiby-kletzky/
A sizable amount of children's clothing? OMG this may be bigger than at least I previously thought... I hope not.
While there is no comfort to be found in any developments in the boy's shocking death, the possibility that he was unconscious before he was smothered, and was certainly dead before he was dismembered, can be seen as lesser evil than speculation last week that he may have been alert.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/184...n-boy-prescription-drugs-autopsy-indicted.htm
Respectfully snipped. I think the part that bothers me the most is LA knows the customs of the Jewish religion with regards to the human body, burial and amputation. What he did to LK's remains is what really bothers me the most. It's not as if LA was a different religion or non religious where someone might not be familiar with the Jewish customs. That just breaks my heart - as if he deliberately showed such disregard for the customs of his own beliefs.
jmo
Respectfully snipped. I think the part that bothers me the most is LA knows the customs of the Jewish religion with regards to the human body, burial and amputation. What he did to LK's remains is what really bothers me the most. It's not as if LA was a different religion or non religious where someone might not be familiar with the Jewish customs. That just breaks my heart - as if he deliberately showed such disregard for the customs of his own beliefs.
jmo
I never implied NYPD scratched up Aron's hands etc.
I just dont see how LK could have been conscious when he was smothered and in a position to resist and fight back like weve been led to believe he did. It doesn't jive IMO.
Its possible LA was extremely anxious when he was dismembering the body and his knife slipped numerous times.
MO is LA wanted to spare the child from experiencing a painful and agonizing death.
I know so heartbreaking. I can't imagine how they must feel because they were so close!!
I wonder if maybe he had tried to smother Leiby before he gave him the meds and Leiby fought him off therefore he realized he had to give him something???
Other children? Scary.
I hate to keep coming back to this, but the only other child missing in all of New York, male OR female, age 5-12, that's NOT a family abduction...is Patrick Alford.
Specific to Brooklyn, Patrick is the ONLY child missing in the last 10 years not listed as a runaway or family abduction.
I think it was disregard, but I'm not sure if it was malicious or religiously motivated. I'm not sure yet whether I believe he had a mental break, but I don't think he willfully set about violating Jewish custom, if that makes sense? To me, it seems like it was something he came up with to hide the body, but not intended to desecrate it. I don't know, I'm just not feeling this was religiously motivated. Callous disregard, yes, but I don't think it was intentionally malicious. :twocents:
I didn't mean to imply this was religiously motivated. I guess it just bothers me. It's hard to explain. Maybe it is as shocking to me as FCA's 31 days of partying. Maybe it is an 'over the top added shock' or something like that. It's really hard to put into words. Kind of like it is bad enough but that too? way.....
Included in the “Activities and Interests” on Aron’s Facebook profile is a link to a page for a non-profit organization that offers tips on how to find sex offenders in your neighborhood. The page is headlined, “IS YOUR FAMILY SAFE? Find out who really lives in your area!” {source}
Oh, I didn't think that you did really - I was just thinking along after you mentioned that, and wondered if perhaps it was done intentionally because Leiby was Jewish, but decided that probably wasn't the case (in my opinion).
It does add an extra amount of horror though - particularly for his family if/when they find out. Like rubbing salt into a wound. Terrible.
Another bit of creepy infi:
He's sounding more and more like a pedophile to me! Am I the only one? What do you guys think?