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    • Levi Aron Tried To Kidnap Other Neighborhood Children


    by on Jul 18th, 2011

    photo credit: G.N. Miller for New York Post

    The New York Post and WPIX are reporting that a Kensington woman claims Levi Aron, the confessed killer of 8-year-old boy Leiby Kletzky, also tried to kidnap her own son.

    Ziza Berkowitz told the Post that Aron, a one-time butcher at a kosher deli counter in a Tennessee Kroger supermarket, tried to kidnap her son sometime in the last 2 years. The mom, who lives just a few doors down from the Aron family on East 2nd Street, says she scared Levi off with her screams.

    From The Post:

    The alleged kidnap attempt occurred within the past two years, sources said, and is further evidence of Aron’s longtime freakish fascination with young boys.

    A former neighbor who grew up across the street said the “oddball . . . used to give kids rides in cars.”

    Aron later moved to Tennessee, where his creepy stare freaked out customers at the kosher deli where he worked as a butcher. He was married briefly before bolting back to Brooklyn.

    According to the Post, Aron tried to abduct another neighborhood boy about a week before he murdered Leiby Kletzky.

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    • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Erica-Sherman-Photographer/156144554406226?ref=mf ES

      Reason #1 why I hate the NYP: “The alleged kidnap attempt occurred within the past two years, sources said, and is further evidence of Aron’s longtime freakish fascination with young boys.”

      How can something that is “alleged” be “further evidence” if it has yet to be proven?

      • Joe Teutonico

        It’s certainly hearsay, probably circumstantial at best, but it does give the reader some potentially valuable background about an accused killer. There’s a major difference between proving something beyond a reasonable doubt in court and reporting emerging details in an ongoing news story to the best of your ability but hey, I didn’t go to journalism school, so maybe I’m wrong.

        • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Erica-Sherman-Photographer/156144554406226?ref=mf ES

          There is damning enough evidence against him, proving that he is a horrible monster (hand-written confession, feet in freezer, etc). To presuppose in journalism is fine, if you are writing an editorial, which this is not, although, with The Post, it is oftentimes difficult for me to tell the difference.

          • Joe Teutonico

            “…with The Post, it is oftentimes difficult for me to tell the difference.”

            It’s funny because it’s true…