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“Brooklyn Butcher” Levi Aron, who lured a lost boy into his sick lair last year before murdering the child and chopping up his body, pleaded guilty today in a deal that spared the victim’s family the heartache of an emotional trial.

Leiby’s Butcher Pleads Guilty

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“Brooklyn Butcher” Levi Aron, who lured a lost boy into his sick lair last year before murdering the child and chopping up his body, pleaded guilty today in a deal that spared the victim’s family the heartache of an emotional trial.

Aron told a Brooklyn judge that he killed 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky after abducting him and panicking amid an all-out search for the boy who missed a turn on his walk home from day camp.

Judge Neil Firetog asked Aron a series of questions, drawing out the gruesome details of the shocking heartless murder.

With clipped, whispered answers, the bearded Aron, wearing an orange jumpsuit and a yarmulke, with his hands cuffed behind his back, admitted that he kidnapped the boy, tied him up, and smothered him until he died.

The judge and Aron spoke to each other during the proceeding. Aron said Leiby tried to fight back as he killed him. Then the judge asked Aron what he did next:

“I got rid of the body,” Aron said.

“How did you get rid of the body,” the judge asked.

“I put it in a suitcase. “

“In order to put the body in a suitcase, did you have to cut up the body?”

“Yes.”

“Did you get a knife?”

“Yes.”

“From where?”

“The kitchen.”

“What did you do with the suitcase?

“I took it to a dumpster.”

Under the deal, Aron will get 25 years in jail on the murder charge and an additional 15 years for kidnapping.

Even though Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes vowed after Aron’s arrest that there would be no plea bargain, his office relented at the request of Leiby’s parents, who wanted to avoid a lengthy and painful trial where they would have had to revisit the gruesome details.

Nachman and Esther Kletzky stayed away from today’s hearing, but did issue a statement.

”There is no way one can comprehend or understand the pain of losing a child,“ Nachman Kletzky said. Esther and I faced this unspeakable tragedy last year when out little boy Leiby was ruthlessly taken from us.”

“Today my family has finally received some partial closure on one aspect of this nightmare. Closure does not mean we don’t continue to feel the pain. A day does not pass without our thinking of Leiby — but today we close the door on this one aspect of our tragedy and seek to remember only the gifts that God has bestowed, including the nine years Leiby was with us.”

Family representative Dov Hikind also spoke following the guilty plea.

“Nachman and Esther are remarkable individuals whose strength and faith remain undiminished, despite their profound loss,” the state Assemblyman said.

“While what happened to Leiby was certainly the worst tragedy that’s ever happened to us, the unity we saw here—and from people everywhere on behalf of this child—was almost beyond belief. Leiby was everyone’s child; everyone felt this pain and wanted to help. Today, we all remain a little more united.”

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27 Comments

  • One Day!

    Oh to Gd that every child would be everyone’s child — protected, loved and cared for with the deepest of love, nurturing and concern! Never harmed nor destroyed.

    May the world one day be a safe place for each and every child….for each and every person!

  • TO MR. DIRT BUTCHER

    PLEASE MR. DOV HIKIND IS NOT ENOUGH 40 YEARS IN JAIL, NOT ENOUGH, THE BUTCHER/MONSTER LIFE SENTENCE OR EVEN BETTER THE ELECTRIC CHAIR… LETS KILL HIM, HOW IN NEW YORK HE CAN GO JUST WITH 40 YEARS, CRAZY SYSTEM!!

  • BASTARD

    LOOK THIS SICK FACE AND EYE OF THIS IMACHSHEMO, SICKO HE NEEDS THE LETHAL INJECTION AND TOO EASY DEATH FOR HIM, HE SHOULD SUFFER ALL HIS LIFE AND NOT GETTING FAT LIKE A PIG WITH OUR TAXES.!!!! PARENTS AND FAMILY ARE THE ONE TO SUFFER EVERYDAY MOMENT OF THEIR LIFE

  • ploinee ben ploinee

    no one should ever have to live tru , what those parents have to deal with ….may hashem give them KOI`ACH

  • Unfair!!!

    He kidnapped and cut up a young boy and only gets 25 years (plus the 15 years for kidnapping) while Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin got 27 and he didn’t kill anyone!!!
    What kind of justice is this??

    To the Kletzky family, I wish you only the best and may you be blessed with only goodness!!!

  • Mitnagid

    I hope some ‘homie’ in jail will eventually succed in harming this sick paedho!

  • Blinded By Sin!

    hashem help us….why don’t you spare us and take your yalmulka off your head…..you child of Gd who has chosen to hate.

    You realize that now, Gd has no choice but to hate you when you sin for it says, in the way you judge others, you will be judged. It matters not your sin, Gd will have to hate you or He is not faithful to His Word.

  • Granny

    The only justice I think is fair is he gets the same as he did to Leiby. An eye for an eye and so on and so forth. Just give him a minute with Bubba in jail. I was also disgusted to see his yarmulka. I suppose he thinks he’s a frum yid? Ech!

  • disappointed

    The best simplest outcome for a real tragedy Now the family can finally have a little peace without the publicity agony etc. of a trial R”l.The one salvation is that the responsible individual took responsibility for his actions & maybe one day he will have a kaporah & Mechilah

  • Nifty

    The pain for the Kletzky’s were bashert and they accepted it with grace. Levi Aron has the shaliach for bad, he will rot in jail till he is 76 years old, if he survives that far, then he will rot in hell.

  • To #11

    Yossi: What a disgusting comment you make!! The Rebbe would be shocked that you could spew such unwarranted sinas chinam!! Obviously this murderer is not the only one who hates Jewish children!

  • somewhere

    Wow awful news I heard. He should going to be death. He is not belong this America!

  • jonah

    to 13, how can you rot in hell if you have no body? in fact even people in heaven still rot and I hell was a pagan/christian concept

  • a friend of rubashkin..

    the injustice of it all. thats absolutely disgusting. not only did sholom mordechai not do anything wrong, but he has been a giver all his life and always will be! he is a tzaddik!

  • Impressive

    It is quite impressive that not withstanding what he’s done and what everyone thinks of him he still wears a Yarmulka. We can learn from everyone…
    He did a terrible act in panic and let’s hope he’s done Tshuva etc. We have to remember as believers that whatever happened was meant to happen…Hashem could have stopped it and as it says in Tanya ul hanizek kvar nigzar…The way ul per Toiroh to deal with it is not to spew hatred or you’re not much better than him.. Hatred leads to murder. The way is to focus more on the positive and increase in Ahavas Yisroel…

  • Jewish dude

    So twenty five years later this monster is back? Is there no rabbinical court who can interfere this is a bad sign for all frumme yidden world wide.

  • asking

    why take off the yarmulke? well he makes me feel embarrased, really. Is that not OK?

  • wow

    WOW…i almost cried reading this article…such a strong family!
    only simchas, moshiach now!!

  • Mitnagid

    #20,according to Torah laws this animal would be killed in no time and nobody would share a tear for him.Period.

  • to 20

    lets just say the normal law system around the world he KIDNAPPED a child he made him drunk choked him to death then cut him up
    yes yes poor man he made a mistake come on if this man is sick so then at least put him in a jail for mental people FOR LIFE SO IT DOES NOT HAPPEN TO ANOTHER CHILD ever again