Man Gets 40 to Life for Dismembering Brooklyn Boy

Snatched 8-year-old off the street

Reason Staff | 8.29.2012 7:40 PM

Brooklyn Butcher Levi Aron was given 40 years to life in prison Wednesday for killing and dismembering 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky - and will likely spend the rest of eternity in hell.

Wearing a black yarmulke and an orange jumpsuit, the admitted killer meekly said "no," when asked if he had something to say in Brooklyn Supreme Court,

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Man Gets 40 to Life for Dismembering Brooklyn Boy

Snatched 8-year-old off the street

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