A horrific murder of an eight year old

[malaise]

A young Brooklyn boy who vanished while walking home from a day camp in one of the safest parts of the city was killed and dismembered by a stranger he had turned to for help after getting lost, police said Wednesday.

An intense search for the missing 8-year-old, Leiby Kletzky, ended with the gruesome discovery of pieces of his dismembered body inside the home of a man who had been seen with the child around the time he disappeared, police said.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the 35-year-old suspect, Levi Aron, made statements implicating himself in the boy's death. Formal charges are pending. The investigation continued, and Kelly said Aron was still being interviewed by detectives. It's not clear if he had an attorney, and the home he shared with his parents was a crime scene Wednesday, and his parents were not there.

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Throw away the key

[aquart]

1. I assure you, we will.

[get the red out]

2. +1

Off the streets with this piece of litter.

Makes me wonder, if this poor little child just happened to turn to a creature like this for directions walking down the street, how many of these monsters must be out there. :scared:

[TheWraith]

3. The reality is, not as many as you think.

Because you hear about this story, but you don't hear about a million plus other times when a kid asks someone for something, and it's fine. It's like child kidnappings: you hear about a handful of high profile cases that make you think it's common, and you hear lots of statistics about tens of thousands of kidnappings a year. But in actuality, some of those stats are exaggerated, and even the ones that aren't, virtually all of those kidnappings are by family members for custody dispute reasons. How many children are taken by strangers in the US every year, you think? The answer is about 150.

[Broderick]

8. Really

I thought it might be quite a bit higher.

[lapislzi]

11. When my daughter was small

I conducted controlled experiments. I would take her to a public place: the mall, the park, the grocery store. At first I asked her simply to identify people who she thought could be "helpers" if she was in trouble. As she got older, I would send her a few yards away (watching the whole time), and had her ask someone the time, or where was such-and-such in the store. My only words of advice were to first look for a mom, then to look for someone wearing a uniform. And, be VERY suspicious of a grownup who approaches YOU.

What a horrible tragedy.

[malaise]

14. Excellent lessons

:hi:

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Chilling especially as the accused lives in the closed community.

[get the red out]

15. Just shows that no community is immune

I guess this is a lesson that psychotics can turn up in any group of people.

[AtomicKitten]

5. Good lord he got lost walking back home from day camp.

:cry:

[MrDiaz]

6. If this guy

goes to trial and is let off by a jury of his peers, would you treat that verdict the same as Casey Anthony's verdict?

[AtomicKitten]

7. He was found with dismembered body parts in his possession

The prosecutors in the Casey Anthony case could not prove their case; there is no way this guy will walk.

[malaise]

10. Well for starters they have the little boy's body parts

knives and a confession.

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[CoffeeCat]

13. There was NO direct evidence...

...linking Casey Anthony to the death of her daughter. The prosecution could not even say for
certain, how Kaylee died. That, in itself, leaves room for reasonable doubt.

In my opinion, the prosecution should have never gone for Murder I. The bar is so high for
Murder I and she would have rec'd the death penalty, if I'm not mistaken.

I'm sure the jury instructions required the jury to determine if the state had met the legal
criteria for proving Murder I--and those criteria just weren't there. When you can't even
determine a cause of death, you've lost a lot.

Do I think Casey Anthony murdered her child? Probably. However, I also think the prosecution
didn't have more than circumstantial evidence--and there are plenty of people who have been
accused of crimes only on circumstantial evidence--and they've been innocent.

A clusterf*#@ and a sad situation all the way around.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Tell me where was the beyond a reasonable doubt proof in the trial?

Here they have the EVIDENCE they did not have, or did not present.

That said, welcome to distraction part deux. This is a LOCAL story, like the Casey Anthony story was,

[joeybee12]

9. This is really heart-breaking...that poor kid, his poor family...

May the little guy rest in peace.

[Catherine Vincent]

16. ...

:cry: