Leiby Kletzy killer Levi Aron gets 40 years to life in prison
A Hasidic man walks near the residence of Leiby Kletzky, a murdered eight-year-old boy who went missing from the Hasidic neighborhood of Borough Park, Brooklyn, July 13, 2011 in New York City. After a two day search Kletzky’s dismembered body was found partially in a suitcase inside a dumpster and partially in a refrigerator in a nearby apartment. Police detectives have taken Levi Aron, 35, into custody in connection to the killing.
Hardware store clerk Levi Aron was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison Wednesday for the kidnapping, murder and dismemberment of a lost 8-year-old boy in Brooklyn last year.
Aron, 36, pleaded guilty to the crimes earlier this month as part of a plea deal with prosecutors to avoid trial, The Associated Press reported.
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When asked if he wanted to speak at his sentencing hearing, Aron whispered "No."
He will be eligible for parole in 40 years, according to the New York Post.
At his plea hearing, Aron described how he kidnapped Leiby Kletzy while the boy was walking home from religious day camp in July 2011, killed him, chopped up his body and “took it to a dumpster.”
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“I put it in the suitcase,” the Wall Street Journal quoted him as saying about the boy's body.
That day was the first time Leiby had been allowed to walk alone in the tight-knit Hasidic community in a section of Brooklyn.
The loss of their son has almost been too much to bear for Leiby's parents, a state assemblyman told New York TV station WABC in early August.
They did not attend Wedne
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