LEIBY KLETZKY WAS DRUGGED BEFORE MURDER

DRUGGED

"NOT GUILTY"

TRAGIC Leiby Kletzky was forced to take a cocktail of prescription drugs before he was smothered with a bath towel the medical examiner revealed yesterday. 
Levi Aron made the young Hasidic boy ingest hydrocodone, the schizophrenia drug quetiapine, Tylenol and the muscle relaxant cyclobenzaprine, according to the autopsy report. 
The cause of death was intoxication from a muscle relaxant, an anti-psychotic drug and two pain medications, followed by smothering.
Aron, 35, was slapped yesterday with two counts of first-degree murder, kidnapping and other charges by a Brooklyn grand jury, to which he has pleaded not guilty.

He faces a possible life sentence without parole if convicted. 
Cops say Kletsky was snatched as he made his way back to his New York home from a day camp and got lost. 
Video cameras captured their fateful encounter while Leiby's mother waited anxiously just a few blocks away. 
Detectives later found the boy's severed feet, wrapped in plastic, in Aron's freezer, as well as a cutting board and three bloody carving knives.
The gruesome killing  shocked the tight-knit Hasidic community in Borough Park, in part because it is one of the safest sections of the city and because the man under arrest is himself an Orthodox Jew.

 

10,000 TURN OUT FOR LEIBY KLETSKY FUNERAL

NO CHANCE

THOUSANDS

THOUSANDS of mourner lined the streets to pay their respects to tragic Leiby Kltezky who was killed and dismembered after innocently asking a stranger for help to find his way home. The eight-year-old Hasidic boy lost his way on his first walk home alone, from day camp when cops say he was abducted by 35-year-old Levi Aron who kidnapped, suffocated and dismembered with a kitchen knife. When detectives tracked him down, Aron, who works as a clerk in the city's Kensington neighborhood is said to have confessed to the brutal murder, saying he killed the child 'in a panic' after the search for the boy became high-profile. 
He was busted after leading them to other parts of Leiby's body, stuffed in a red suitcase and hidden in a Dumpster outside an auto repair shop about two miles away, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said at a news conference.

Cops are also investigating a separate incident where he may have tried to lure another young boy into his car.

Yesterday as up to 10,000 people lined Brooklyn's streets his heartbroken father Nachman Kletzky's tears flowed during his emotional funeral speech.  
He said: "Here lies my child. Purity of heart. Very quiet and very respectful. Satisfied and never demanding. My child is gone. I'm in very deep sorrow." 

Rabbi Benjamin Eisenberger stressed the community's resilience and unity and thanked them for their support. 

He said: "I see and appreciate the love from the community. Love emanates from the community and God. We must continue to show support for family."

Leiby is survived by his parents and three sisters, NY1 reported.