News: Boy’s Killer Loses Attorney
(Long Island, N.Y.) The thirty-five-year-old killer of an eight-year-old boy from Borough Park, Brooklyn may need a new attorney. Reports stated that one of his two attorneys quit last night and confessed that representing the killer affected his conscience. The attorney is allegedly the father of three boys, and could no longer continue with the case.
Reports also stated that the killer may be eligible to receive the death penalty. His former attorney claimed that his eldest son was close in age with the murdered boy. Sources claimed that the boy’s young life consisted of a structured regimen of prayer, and that members of the tight-knit community felt responsible for the crime.
Statistics estimated that the average Orthodox family living in Borough Park, Brooklyn has five children. Figures from 2002 claimed that there are over 76,000 Jews living in the area. It’s likely that the population has grown considerably in the last decade.
Other boys in Borough Park, like the eight-year-old victim, begin school at the age of three and study in a sex-segregated environment. Students are also taught secular subjects in addition to their religious pursuits. Reports estimated that the education can cost up to four-hundred dollars per month for each child.
Borough Park children are typically isolated from secular kids and have a limited or nonexistent understanding of pop culture. Reports stated that the defense attorney who allegedly stepped down from representing the eight-year-old’s killer claimed that the horrific way he was murdered led him to the decision to drop the case. Sources stated that Tylenol was among the drugs the killer administered on the boy before killing him and dismembering him.
The thirty-five-year-old killer has been admitted into Bellevue Hospital to undergo a psychiatric exam. Reports stated that he had claimed to be hearing voices. The killer allegedly wrote a handwritten confession on a legal pad during questioning by police and authorities on the case.
The killer claimed that the boy asked him for a ride to a nearby bookstore, but changed his mind on the way. He then stated that the boy agreed to accompany him to a wedding upstate. According to reports, the killer returned from the party around midnight that evening.
He stated that the boy fell asleep watching television, and that when he woke up he agreed to take him home before seeing flyers for the missing boy. In a state of panic, the killer claimed to have killed the boy because he was afraid to take him home and face the consequences of the abduction.
