Fear is an interesting motivator.

it motivates everything.

He should fear every day for the rest of his life.

They should put him in a room with this poor child's family members for about 10 minutes. I think justice would be better served. Anger and rage are also great motivators.

I heard a line of poetry recently which invokes the feeling I get when such things appear: I've seen skies so hard the birds fell from it. May the young boys family find peace and somehow may we all find the beauty and love that exists amidst those and that for whatever completely incomprehensible reason would tear it from us. I can't even imagine having known the child. Yet that very sick and evil individual has committed that crime against all of us attempting to live as civilized, interconnected human beings.

Keep in mind it was the murderer who offered the "fear" excuse. Was he "afraid" when he killed, or when he killed and mutilated that poor child? Fear, my a$$. It takes a special kind of sick ba$tard to mutilate a body. I'd like to see him suffer the same fate, while he's alive to see it happen. Then he'll know fear.

WHAT THE FONGONUS is the matter with the Judge who allowed for "special handling" of this miscreant? !!

One can only hope that "protective custody," will not be completely safe. I will bet there are other inmates who would take a very dim view of this psychopath's behavior and admission of guilt.

Other inmates can and should make life hell for him, every day, and every night. He should have to see a chiropractor for the crick in his neck, from looking over his shoulders all the time.

The worst case scenario will mean that he will be about 76 when he gets released from prison. Best case, is that he would die while in prison, from either natural or "assisted" causes, the sooner the better.

There is no effective mental health treatment program for psychopathic behavior. The idea of protective custody might have something to do with isolating this killer so he does not kill another inmate, or a correctional officer.

Forty years? For killing this boy? THAT'S IT????

What a shame there's no death penalty in New York. This degenerate deserves to be thrown into the chamber with a compressed chlorine gas cylinder- fully open.

Just a look at his face and we soon realize that if we drop him either on any of the following countries justice will be done regardless...( afghanistan, pakistan, irak, iran, yemen...we get the point)

Speedy,don't forget to stuff his pockets with BACON before dropping that SCUM in one of those countries!!

This guy needs to be put to death, not an 8x10 cell.

40 yrs to life for a grisly murder of a young innocent boy.................disgusting!!!!! This bastard should be hung!

USA1967...The perpetrator may be hung, we don't know that he is. He should be hanged is what you should have said.

Other things are hung (a picture, a porch light, a well endowed man) but people are hanged with a rope.

This pathetic, perverted, psychopathic child-killer received a 40-year sentence? What's the effing point of punishment? Let's just send him to bed without dinner and call it a day.

Read it again. He didn't get 40 for the killing, he got 25 years for the murder and 15 for kidnapping. You can now kill an 8 y/o child, cut him to pieces and get just 25 years. And this guy is young enough that if he serves the 40 years he could still be a free man someday. That sentence is almost as disgusting as the crime.

Let's see...15 and 25 is...oh, I don't know...40 maybe?

I know it's 40 years. I'm saying he would have only gotten 25 if not for the kidnapping charge. If I were referring to your post I would have mentioned you by name. There were a lot of posts before you that were saying just 40 years for murder. I was pointing out that it was only 25 for murder. I apologize that my post came right after yours, but I can only post at the end of the vine.

He's a waste of carbon and a waste of taxpayer money.

Put him in the general population and look the other way and this will sort itself out properly in short order.

I just feel like crying every time I look at this little boy's picture. Every time I hear or read about another child being slain, it breaks my heart.

One who is evil enough to kill a child deserves a death of unspeakable pain and torment.

Why is this Scum Bag still alive..... It is time for Capital Punishment to be carried out..... After all it is worthless unless done in a Timely Manner..... and this Scum Bag deserves it.....

What do you expect of New York other than a lenient sentence? Chances are he'll be eligible for parole at some point. But to really punish him maybe they will take away his salt and make sure he doesn't drink any 32oz or larger sodas. He'll probably be forced to choose from a low fat, calorie restricted diet as well; all for his own good so he'll live longer. Only here in California could this judge's stupidity be matched.

I have always believed that the reason some judges give light sentences to these kind of monsters, is because they believe, "There but for the grace of God, Go I".

Masterpirate,

That is exactly what awaits the unrepentent. "Whoever harms one of these little ones, it would be better for him if a millstone was tied around his neck and he was thown into the deepest part of the sea." -Jesus, speaking judgment coming to those who abuse children (sexual, physical emotional, and certainly murder). Unspeakable pain and torment await those in Hell who are destined for that horrible place. we can all repent however with a Holy fear of God Almighty..

Wow! that is pretty graffic to say doctor jim...but i can only agree with you 100% he does NOT deserve any kind of protection!!!!

When is the "justice system" going to produce one partical of justice. This freak should suffer "two eyes for an eye" justice. I am ashamed of our pathetic justice system. The blood of all the inocent is on their hands.

Funny, this bastard didn't offer that boy any sort of protection. Why should he get any?

WTH...............criminals can get protective custody in prision?...................Now that's one messsed up justice system.................

Why was he granted protective custody in prison??? He doesn't deserve this consideration. I agree with all of you.

That poor child...that poor family. HORRIBLE that this happened.

i hope this bastards inmates at the prison find out what he did.......even in prison there is a code against child killers,molesters,and so on.....they will not take kindly to what he did

Oh I wouldn't worry about this POS getting what he deserves in prison. Prisons don't typically house people particularly friendly to Jews and there won't be Jewish gangs to look out for him. Add to that his particular crime and he will suffer much more then an execution would give him. The term "protective custody" may be used loosely; one can only hope. Rest in peace little one.

Baruch dayan emet

I don't think the "code" exists as it once did. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many child molesters and killers. They should all be killed.

Now lets see if the same thing happens to those Jews that killed that young boy.

I'm sure they are. Along with lots of other emotions that I couldn't even begin to comprehend.

25 years for murder...

Followed by 15 years for kidnapping....he'll never get out.

At least he plead guilty, saving a long and costly court case.

25 years for murder, 15 years for kidnapping, and nothing for mutilation of a the body or tampering with the evidence. Somebody was sleeping on this casel.

This piece of sh##only received 25 years for murder, and 15 for kidnapping they should of hung this demented person. The family will forever grieve losing their child not to mention remembering the dismemberment of their poor child and how this idiot just threw the body parts in the garbage. I hope that the family can somehow have peace in their lives.

Well he was sentenced to a total of 40 years to life. That means he has to serve 40 years before he is eligible for parole. Assuming he survives 40 years, which I doubt, he has to stand before the parole board and asked to be released. He can potentially stay his entire life in prison which is exactly where he belongs.

In Texas he would have got the death penalty and we wouldn't have the expense of keeping him alive for the next 30-40 yrs!

Put him in general population and whats meant to be will work out perfectly - don't protect the @$$hole

Death penalty!

not to worry..he will never get a breath of free air..

25 for murder 15 for kidnapping = 40 years

What a slap in the face to the boys family.

How about life for murder plus an additional 75 years for kidnapping. Then when he is dead and seventy five years after that he might be eligible for parole. That sounds fair to me.

I have to agree with you about your statement that people like this sicko is what makes us have to tell our children monsters are in fact real and they look just like us. Totally in agreement with your post. My thing is someone like this should be hung till dead. No working person want's their tax dollars to have to pay for his meals, cot, and shelter. I mean honestly!!!!!

when is the justice system going to realize that this kind of sentence is not really justice and keeping these kinds of people in prison is not fair to society, we as a society have to pay an exorbrant price to keep these people alive and happy in prison but there is nothing we can make them do to help pay for their keep,,,, wake up , put these murdering rapist, child molester murderers and just plain old killers and drug dealers to sleep so there is some justice for the rest of society and we are not being penalized for their misdeeds......

It's 40 to life. Means only eligible for parole after 40 years. Eligible, not entitled for parole. He will be 76 by then.

Not sure what parole guidlines are in NY, but some states only require 2/3 of sentence to be served before eligible for release. 1/3 for non violent crimes.

BadBoy,

40 to life means parole eligibility after 40. Because you can't calculate 2/3 of life sentence.

AlexG...maybe you're pulling my leg, but you know I was wondering ...how do you calulate a pro-rated life sentence?

@RTColorado:

Is that a question to BadBoyJim?

Anyway, if the sentence is "40 to life" you don't prorate it. It's at least forty, at most life. If you don't get parole, like Mark David Chapman (20 to life), you're still there.

Because of what he did he'll die in prison of a perforated rectum. In effect, he's been given the death penalty, except the state of New York won't be the one performing the execution.

nabernation.........read the book "Evidence of the Afterlife" by Dr. Jeffry Long, it convinced me, a former atheist that there is really a God powerful enough of the greatest love and peace imagineable, which no doubt enveloped this child at his exact moment of death by this "thing". The saddest part of this story (in my mind) is that my husband just died 3 months ago from cancer and he wore glasses and looked just like this sweet little fella when I look at my love's childhood pictures, when I saw this child's picture I just broke down and lost it, he looked like my innocent Keith who would never hurt anybody, always smiling and helpful. May they both be happy in the afterlife.

Missy, please accept my condolences. I'm so sorry for your loss. GOD keep you strong and give you the strength that you need.

I think spending many years in total isolation and misery behind bars is a worse punishment than death. Even the most harden criminals will describe it as pure hell.

I think I'd rather die then go to prison for life.

Carolyn - He wasn't even given life! He was given 25 years for murder. 15 for kidnapping. That is 40 years. He will get out! Unbelievable!

Death is too quick and easy.............our jails are too comfy........We need something harsher for these types..................

Oh please spare us the faux indignation. Many on the right are also anti-death penalty. They think a clump of cells and a murderer are "sacred" life forms.

I'm left-leaning and I say kill him. Then again, the religious wing-nuts would probably get angry, especially b/c this murderer was from a religious community.

don't get the idea that its just the religious community that is pushing for the abolition of the death penalty, maybe a few are but its also many others involved, there has just not been enough others that have had their family members beaten,raped, cut up, murdered, to make them understand that some trash needs to be taken out and dumped and that is the only permenant way to take care of the problem. many people say he just made a mistake and wont do it again but they are just kidding themselves, most killings are done by truly bad people and they are not going to change.

I may be a bleeding heart, but I do have an issue with the death penalty. But not because I sympathise with any of these sorts of scum. I would think this guy should get the death penalty because it is clear evidence that he did the crime and it was a viscious one. My issue is that so many people given the death penalty were done so on flimsy evidence, that the death penalty is based on the income of the criminal (people with money will be able to afford a lawyer to get them off), and that often the sickest, most violent of the bunch are not given the death penalty because they are given a deal - no death penalty for information.

If there is clear evidence of a crime that was especially heinous, I would have no problem sentencing them to death. The system is flawed and needs to be revamped, not thrown out.

no prison could protect u!

You're spot on with this one. Leiby did everything he was trained to do if he found himself in a trouble situation, exactly how he was supposed to do them. His parents deserve credit for doing an excellent job in training the kid on how to protect himself. And yes, they should have given him more options than just the options available to him in the Jewish community. What no one mentions here is how hard this kid fought for his life once this guy got him alone.

That's the real lesson in this tragedy: teach your kids if they ever find themselves in a situation that goes downhill as quickly as Leiby's did, they need to fight hard like Leiby. All too often, I see so many so-called child safety experts giving advice that is absolutely useless should a child find themselves in a hostile, life or death situation. What do I see? "Experts" telling parents to tell their kids to NOT take advantage of survival opportunities which may present themselves in hostile, life or death situations. They ignore the obvious: time is not the kid's friend, passivity is the bad guy's best friend; the more time the kid spends not resisting (resisting includes observing how many times the bad guy uses the toilet, if he drinks liquor, if he's a heavy smoker, ALL OF WHICH ARE SURVIVAL OPPORTUNITIES SITTING IN FRONT OF THE KID'S FACE!!!), the more time the bad guy has to dispose of the kid. What's my number one pet peeve with these "experts"? They seem to be fixated on the idea that a screaming bitch fit is good enough to get a kid out of any hostile situation. Dead wrong!!! It only works if there are people in the surrounding area who actually recognize a danger situation taking place, are willing to do something about it, AND THE KID USES WORDS OR PHRASES THAT SEND A CLEAR SIGNAL THAT HE IS IN DANGER. No one is going to look the other way when a kid yells that he wants to be taken to a policeman.

JRmartinez: The reason Jewish children are told this is because it is survival, the outside world cannot be trusted in many places in America, yes especially now. Hate crimes against Jewish people are on the rise and have been since 9-11. If you don't believe it research it.

You can't blame the victim. THE FULL BLAME LIES WITH THE MONSTER WHO BETRAYED A CHILD'S TRUST none of it lies with THE CHILD OR HIS PARENTS.

Well said!

AZ. Kid, I am so sorry for your lost, not easy to deal with. I hope you find peace each day that goes by.

Thank you for the poem. I lost a nephew, 3 years old, to a horrible fiery death, not long ago. Your poem made me think of his beautiful little smile. Your 2 boys are in heaven, also. God Bless You and comfort you in your loss. Rest In Peace to all the little ones who have left us way too soon.

AZ.Kid: "I lost my 2 boys. . ."

It was hard enough for me to have ONE son die. I appreciate very much what bereaved parents go through. It's like having membership in a club you DON'T want to belong to.

Having worked as a funeral director, I have had experiences that tell me there is something after this life.

The innocent victims will have their horrors wiped away. Those of us, who remain, must be patient, and we all must help the newly bereaved; no platitudes, say the name of the deceased, perform an actual deed (not "if there's anything you need. . .), be willing to listen, and other such activities.

There will always be "something there".