A MAN accused in the horrific abduction and dismemberment of an eight-year-old boy from a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish community has pleaded guilty.
The plea, to charges of second-degree murder and kidnapping, guarantees a sentence of 40 years to life for Levi Aron, a 36-year-old hardware store worker. He originally had faced a first-degree murder charge.
The victim got lost on his walk home from a religious day camp and asked Aron, whom he met on the street, for help, prosecutors said.
"When I saw the fliers, I was panicky and afraid," police said Aron wrote. Once home, he said: "I went for a towel to smother him. He fought back a little until he eventually stopped breathing."
The medical examiner's office said that before the boy's death he was given a cocktail of prescription drugs.
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Aug 10, 2012 @ 12:10:52
