Hashem Yerachem (May God have mercy)
Late Tuesday night, I got an email about a 9-year old Brooklyn boy who had gone missing late in the day on Monday. On Wednesday morning, unfortunately, the boy's dismembered body was apparently found in two different places in Brooklyn (Hat Tip: Jammie Wearing Fool).No word yet on who the murderer was. If necessary, I will update the tags on this post.
Hashem Natan v'Hashem Lakach, Yehi Shem Hashem M'vorach (God has given and God has taken away, may the name of God be blessed).
Labels: crime
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:36 PM
6 Comments:
Hi Carl.
One news paper claims the arrested suspect is Jewish.I pray God this aint true. It's a horrible crime,may God give swift justice.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/07/13/2011-07-13_body_of_missing_boy_leiby_kletzky_8_found_in_dumpster_in_park_slope.html?r=news
My prayers are with his parents. How times have changed.
When I was 9 I was allowed to walk to the stores. Now kids can't walk home.
Carl, Can you post this?
"Please email a condolence email to the Kletsky family at this address. leibykletsky.letters@gmail.com. We will get the notes to them as soon as we can. Ask 9 others to do the same, and if they all do it and pass it on as well, we will soon have 100,000 Jews who simply cared enough to take the time to write, reach out and express their horror and pain at the Kletsk's senseless loss."
Everyone should watch the two minute surveillance video which shows Leiby waiting on the street corner. He then dutifully follows Levi Aron.
All the clues are there.
There can only be one of two possible explanations.
From the body language it is clear that they knew each other and had formed some sort of relationship.
(1) If his family knew Levi Aron then did they know about these meetings ?
If they did what did they know about the nature of the meetings ?
(2) If his family didn't know about the meetings why didn't they ?
It looks like Leiby was a lost little boy. His demeanour was too "open". A child raised properly knows how to create defences around himself/herself even in the most basic of fashion, i.e. avoidance. In the video he clearly went to the corner to wait for Levi Aron.
What was the nature of the meetings ?
If it was something far more sinister than stamp collecting then from Leiby's demeanour such meetings had been going on for awhile. Both their actions are way too automatic.
How did Leiby become like this and what led him to be in this situation in the first place ?
Perpetrators can pick certain vulnerabilities and states of openness in potential victims and exploit them. I doubt that Aron Levi was just mentoring Leiby. Too much furtiveness in their movements.
All acts of violence can be deconstructed. I am not in any way shape or form ignoring the complete evil that occurred over the past three days.
I would like to sit in a room with his father and Levi Aron and ask them a few questions.
The problem with crimes like these is that it blows up the community and freaks people out. Some mothers and fathers then overcompensate and a siege mentality sets in. People are frightened to wander the streets when the true chance of assault or abduction hasn’t changed. There is a balance between allowing one’s children the freedom to develop some autonomy by walking to school, friends etc,. and wrapping them in cotton wool to live a cloistered, sheltered existence. It is going to be a stuffed up world if kids can’t kick a ball around the street sometimes. There is far more violence done in the secrecy of homes than in public spaces.
What should be happening with everyone is some introspection. Any parents out there who have left their children too “open” had better work out very fast how to redeem the situation. Unfortunately like the Katsav case it takes some evil to knock a group back into reality. For Leiby Kresky to be a sacrifice on the community altar so that they would improve their behaviour is disgusting. G-d is now watching very closely how people are going to deal with this. The groupthink better change for the better.
Didn’t anyone in the community notice these liaisons? Why was everyone so wilfully blind ? Is everyone just rushing around these days surviving and threats to purity, innocence and freedom are ignored ?
There’s a lot of sadness here, but I hope to G-d some people are getting angry about what has happened. Anger is a powerful energy if used well.
Prayers for Leiby.
Sky News has picked this up too:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Leiby-Kletzky-8-Killed-And-Dismembered-In-Brooklyn-New-York-City-Allegedly-By-Levi-Aron/Article/201107216030101?f=rss
This poor kid was hacked and kept in the fridge by some sicko who has been arrested now apparently, who in the world was the guy who did this? Was he some pshyco, or did he have some sort of vendetta against the kid's family?
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