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Man admits killing, dismembering 8-year-old N.Y. boy

NEW YORK (MCT) — Leiby Kletzky wanted to walk home alone from day camp, and one day last summer, his protective parents relented. They lived among close-knit Hasidic Jews in a safe Brooklyn area—a neighborhood where an 8-year-old boy should have been fine on his own.

But Leiby never made it those seven blocks to a prearranged meeting point with his mother.

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