More details have emerged about 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky’s final moments with a schizophrenic madman who snatched the boy off the streets of Brooklyn as he tried to find his way home.
On Wednesday night, 8,000 grieving mourners gathered to pay their last respects in a funeral service held just hours after Leiby’s dismembered body was found.
Police say the innocent Hasidic child fought for his life before being suffocated and chopped up in the tiny attic apartment of “loner” Levi Aron. Leiby’s dismembered body was found inside black garbage bags stuffed in a suitcase and left in a dumpster 2 miles from Aron’s Kensington apartment.
The autopsy report described defensive wounds on the child’s arms and wrists. His severed feet, which were found inside Ziplock bags stored in Aron’s freezer, bore ligature marks indicating his feet were tied as he struggled.
Leiby had begged his parents to allow him to walk the 7 blocks home alone for the first time from the Boyan Day Camp on 44th Street near 12th Avenue. “This is a no-crime area,” said state Assemblyman Dov Hikind, whose district is the safest in Brooklyn.
What were the odds that little Leiby would cross paths with the one Orthodox Jew in the neighborhood who had a penchant for little boys and a foot fetish?
After losing his way, Leiby innocently stopped Aron, a stranger, and asked him for directions home. Aron was on his way to a dentist’s office to pay a bill. The receipt for that bill would lead the FBI and police to his front door a day and a half later.
Surveillance video shows Leiby standing across the street from the dentist’s office for 7 minutes, patiently waiting, as he was told to do by the man who promised to show him the way home.
