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Levi Aron is shown at his arraignment last year in Brooklyn criminal court.
Updated at 5 p.m. ET: NEW YORK -- Accused child killer Levi Aron is expected to plead guilty next week to abducting, killing and dismembering Leiby Kletzky, an 8-year-old boy kidnapped when he got lost walking home from day camp in Borough Park last July, according to two sources close to the case.
A tentative plea deal calls for a sentence of 40 to 60 years in prison for Aron, but the details could still change, one source said. A second source said talks about the length of Aron's prison term are continuing.
Aron's attorney, Jennifer McCann, declined to comment. A spokesman for the Brooklyn district attorney declined to comment. Aron's next court hearing is scheduled for Aug. 9.
State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, D- Brooklyn, said that the Kletzky family wanted to avoid a trial.
“The pain they would go through is beyond comprehension. … The family feels this will be justice. They know it will not bring Leiby back.”
Hikind said he will read a family statement in court next week.
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Kletzky went missing July 11, 2011, while walking home from religious day camp, the first time he was allowed to walk by himself. He missed his turn and got lost, and police say he approached Aron for help.
About two days later, the boy's severed feet were found in the freezer at Aron's apartment, along with bloody knives and a carving board. The rest of the boy's body was found in a red suitcase in a trash bin several blocks away. His legs had been cut from his torso.
According to prosecutors, Aron admitted he killed the boy after he panicked when he saw posters with the child's photo. After the two met on the street, Aron took the boy to a wedding upstate, then to his apartment.
Read a redacted transcript of Aron's confession
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Leiby Kletzky
The child remained at the apartment alone all day while Aron was at work. When Aron returned, he took a bath towel and smothered the boy, he said, according to authorities.
The medical examiner's office said the boy was given a cocktail of prescription drugs. But Aron's confession didn't mention that, and he denied ever tying up the boy, though marks were found on the child's body.
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A court-ordered evaluation in August found Aron fit to stand trial on murder charges, but said he is deeply troubled, with an adjustment disorder and a personality disorder with schizoid features.
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"His mood is neutral, practically blank," the psychologist wrote in the evaluation. "The only time he seems to show any emotional response is when he is asked difficult questions about the reason for his incarceration."
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Wrong punishment.
Home Depot please!!
Who needs a jail when this clearly calls for a garbage compactor ..............
I understand the parents not wanting to go through with it. If they think 40-60 years is OK, good for them. If it was my child he murdered and cut to pieces, I'd ask for the death penalty to be applied.
Hopefully prison takes care of the kid killers.
too easy- we make it too easy for scum like this guy, Jerry Sandusky, etc to get away with what they do. AND, other pervs take notice on our leniency....he's a waste of our oxygen
60 years in the general prison population ought to just about do it. I doubt he'll live through half of it. Still...if we could lock him in a burning dumpster and push it off a cliff...
Blue-do not forget to include rats and cockroaches.
Why is it that there will always be someone looking for redemption for the likes of this turd.
The final seconds of that boys life were an eternity of fear and pain. This brown trout should feel no less of each.
I look at my son and it brings a tear to my eye to think that anyone would dredge through the depths of their mind to act upon another in the manner that Lieby was.
Why not just shoot him. He is a waste oxygen.
Wow - what a weirdo. All knids of people out there....
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He is a sick man.
Rehabilitation is in order so that he is able to return to society and be a productive citizen.
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NO to rehabilitation, no plea deal of any kind, and no to life in prison. asses like this don't deserve to live. this guy should have done to him what he did to this child. no sympathy or empathy from me to him.
I think (or at least I hope), that nothing new here-1200374 was being sarcastic, based on the first sentence in the post.
I'm always suprised to find such evil people hold steady jobs. Seems if he had "an adjustment disorder and a personality disorder with schizoid features" he'd have a tough time finding work to begin with.
Rehabilitation, by definition, presumes that he was habilitated in the first place.
Man, trolls aren't even being unique anymore. This EXACT statement was on another thread 2 days ago in reference to the movie shooter.
You're an idiot! Every time our justice system tries to rehab this type of sicko, they are released and repeat their crimes on more innocent victims.
Your misplaced compassion emboldens these monsters.
The death penalty is not used nearly enough.
Find the psychiatrist he was almost certain to have been seeing, take away his license for incompetence and put him in jail for being an accessory for not having his patient committed to a secure mental institution.
Wow, that's quite the leap there...
Yes. We need more innocent people in jail for things that are not their fault. Because the state don't have enough control over our lives as it is.
WTF!
Shoot him down like a rabid coyote.
I can see all those little jewish ladies walking past a group of Black teenagers and calling them animals......under their breath of course. Only if they knew who the real animals were.
I'm been giving serious thought to moving from USA to a more civilized country, and believe me there are many. People here are just becoming crazier and more violent. I'm 72 and have lived long enough and seen enough to know it did not use to be anything like now.
pixie1, like Norway?
Well, bye
The punishment does not fit the crime. However, if there's any justice, this POS will get put into the general population in prison where'll be branded as a child-killer.
Do you know what else would avoid the pain of a trial for the boy's family? A death penalty carried out immediately. It's not like we would need to worry about him being falsely accused at this point, what with the evidence and his confession. Make it quick and painless to appease those who oppose it, but just do it. When they (those who oppose capital punishment) ask what kind of society allows the killing of its own, ask them what kind of society allows people like this to continue to be part of it, even if they are incarcerated. I don't believe any plea, insanity, mental issues or otherwise, justifies allowing him to live because he "accidentally" did something wrong during a moment of mental imbalance.
I wish he would get the death penalty.
That poor kid-cut up like an animal and thrown away like one as well-and here's this SOB-still alive and breathing. Who cares if he gets 100 years-it's still life-which is a hell of a lot better than what that innocent kid got.
Kill it.
Why the plea deal? He was caught red handed. The trial should have taken no more than one day. There is no need to determine if he is crazy or not. If he did it execute him crazy or not. What's the point keeping him alive for 40 years if he is that crazy?
New York doesn't have the death penalty. So why go through the expense of a trial to get him a lengthy prison term that he's agreeing to accept?
Too bad we don't have eye for an eye punishment. Anyone that hurts a child should be treated the same.
Nobody listens or cares what "We The People " have to say..
Do the parents of the child have a say in the plea deal?
Grace and peace be unto little Leiby's family. This was truly a tragic, tragic situation. I am heartbroken by what this innocent little boy had to endure at the hands of this monster.
Well said.
That poor boy! That poor family! They now have to live a life sentence without their son.
I hope this demented F--K gets some help for his disorder, while in prison. I would not like to live like that, would you? If you answered honestly, you too, would want some kind of help to live somewhat normally.
Life in the joint is a very long time, but not long enough for people who kill children.
Chances are, and not that I agree, they made a deal to make this a quick and easy case as to not waste tax dollars. Also the parents did not want a trial.
Hopefully he will be put in general population and be treated like someone's little bitch and die a long any painful death.
I'm glad to see somebody finally plead guilty because I'm so sick of seeing these creeps, who are caught red-handed with no doubt that they did it, go in and plead "not guilty," but when they do admit guilt, they get a lesser sentence. It sucks! This sicko should never see the light of day again!
This post makes absolutely no sense - you are glad to see him plead guilty, and then you biatch about lighter sentences. Plea deals like this result in lighter sentences, not trials. If you are going to learn everything you know from television, at least pay attention.
Where's the electric chair when you need it?
Somebody came up with the idea that that it was cruel and unnusual punishment.
Go figure-a little boy being cut up and the perp saving bits as suverniers would then, in contrast, be concidered humane and usual? (I know-leap of logic but then-where is the logic in the first assertion?)
The child got lost walking home? An 8 year old child?
Where the heck were his parents?
Sad ... sad ... sad
Borderlands,
No need for people like you at a time like this, passing judgement on the victims.
My heart goes out to this sweet, innocent boy and his grieving parents. I cannot begin to fathom the unbearable pain the parents must be going through.