Borough Park, NY -An attorney for accused child killer Levi Aron continued to push for an insanity defense Wednesday, describing his client as a diagnosed schizophrenic who suffered a head injury in his youth.
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Lawyer Howard Greenberg went as far as to claim that inbreeding in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn — where the alleged murderer and his 8-year-old victim were from — could have contributed to a mental deficiency.
“It’s a very simple case: Levi Aron is either evil or he’s crazy,” Greenberg told reporters in Brooklyn Supreme Court after a brief hearing.
“He suffered a severe head injury as a young man. There’s a history of schizophrenia,” the lawyer said. “There’s inbreeding in that community.”
He asserted that relatives sometimes marry and procreate in tight-knit Jewish groups, risking genetic defects.
“That’s an aspect of his familial history,” Greenberg said of Aron, without elaborating.
The head trauma occurred when his client fell off a bike about the age of 10, he added.
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NY Assemblyman Dov Hikind released the following statement:
“It seems as if Mr. Greenberg will stop at nothing in an effort to excuse the heinous crime his client perpetrated against innocent, eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky. It is outrageous that he has the audacity to insinuate that Levi Aron’s crime is a result of “inbreeding” in the Jewish community. What an absolutely vile, disgusting, and wholly untrue remark.
His comments are nothing more than an attempt to distract and confuse the public into thinking there is some merit to his ridiculous assertion. It’s clear that Mr. Greenberg is scrambling to present any type of defense in the face of overwhelming and shocking evidence. Mr. Greenberg is a sick, self-hating Jew who is out of his mind. He is a disgrace to his profession and should be held in contempt not only by Judge Firetog, but by all of us.”
So Mr. lawyer what is the solution ? should we let him walk and chas veshulem kidnap more children ?
Ahh…Good morning Mr. G!! What a low, low, low attempt to divert attention from the facts. What in the world does this have to do with THE FACT that he murdered him??
You are even lower than the defendant for concocting such stupidity…
who cares?!?!?!?!
at a certain point one has to take responsibility for their own actions and the fact is he is a dangerous man. At least she didnt say he didnt do it!
Is the lawyer referring to himself?
“you can’t do this unless you’re crazy”……. or evil……
What does he mean by inbreeding? That we as Jews are all inbred and potentially are murderers or that Levi is the result of inbreeding and his parents are related? How is that a defense anyway? Has he seen a study that proves that inbreeding leads to murdering? What a sleazy lawyer.
“Got anything else, Counselor?”
Ok …. so take this misbreed out of this world. What ever happened to justice? Our tax money now goes to feed this human butcher? Is he the victim now? We should feel bad for him? This makes me sick to my stomach. He needs to be hanged.
Killing a kid or becoming a lawyer that defends them?
He is crazy but him being able to hold down a full time job in the days leading the story will insure that the insanity defense doesn’t work these lawyers are just doing this for the free TV coverage they love it
He has done a complete genetic testing of the entire Aron family?
Looks like the lawyer is setting up an insanity defense for himself.
Everyone that actually murders another human in cold blood is crazy does that mean there should be no justice?
In breeding DOES enhance the chances of both parents carrying similar defective genes and, G-d forbid, both transferring that mutation to their offspring: then r’l an affected child. What is this idiot lawyer suggesting? Can he identify a syndome or mutation that levi carries? Maybe this lawyer has difficulty with good vs bad as much as with science and medecine.
I’m somewhat familiar with the family from years ago and never had any idea that they were “inbred”. What exactly is this lawyer referring to? My grandparents were cousins and may of the chasidish rebbes’ grandchildren marry cousins. Butchering children is not caused by marrying cousins.
“you can’t do this unless you’re crazy”…. With that logic, every murderer should be released due to insanity
so, by his theory, every Chassid should be a murdered. Great.
This is why lawyers have a bad reputation.
According to his premise, Hitler, Stalin Kim Jong ill or all innocent coz they were crazy . And their crimes justified coz they were crazy. Who is the crazy one Greenberg?
so…he is crazy, what now? lock him up for the rest of his life behind bars, crazy or not, he did it? he is CRAZY dangerous man!
Would the Honorable Dov Hikind esq. let our constitution stay? Or will he strike our G-D given right to Trial by Jury and find the defendant guilty by his own judgment? Or maybe even execute the defendant as well? Hey! why not?
..”inbreeding…” is that the Lawyer’s excuse for his remarks too? I guess it’s true what THEY say about lawyers!!!
There is a problem with inbreeding in the frei Ashkenazi Jewish world as well. One look at this Howard Greenberg and you can see what I mean.
Dov Hikind, you’re the best! Keep it up!
so now the lawyer is also a doctor? there is no proof or evidence of that. just for arguments sake, are his parents related? i turned out just fine even though my parents are first cousins..oh, i dont remember falling on my head as a child.
Head injury or inbreeding?
my apology to some of the commenters . … no one or anywhere does it say nor insinuate that Mr Levy is going FREE. the difference is life in prison or life in a mental institution. either way taxpayers are footing the bill.
As far as inbreeding, it is true, there is a large amount of inbreeding in the jewish community which if you would study genetics you would understand results in greater amount of illness and disease ( probobility/statistics). Unless the lawyer has a very specific genome tree it will be very difficult that this was the cause of his insanity.
Mr Levy has the right to a fair, unbiased trial just like everyone else in this country.. So let justice do the work… I sure hope the juror know how to remain unbiased, one way or another…… insane or eveil??
Sometimes it just isn’t worth it to respond to such inane remarks.
If he goes to jail the inmates will try to torcher and/or kill him every day. He has a better chance to live if put in an insane asylum on a suicide watch.
Greenberg is trying his best. He is obviously no politician and thank you Dov Hickend for calling him on it. But, lets not forget Abraham (Abraham) Avinu was the first Jewish defence lawyer who pleaded with g-d to save Sidom (the most wicked corrupt city ie torchered and killed any guest no mater what age).
This lawyer is doing his job. He’s trying to serve the interests of his client, not those of the Jewish community.
greenberg, he’s nuts
That is what I call….adding insult to injury. Disgusting.
Let’s call a spade a spade. Levy Aron is a child molestor, yes Yidden a child molestor, murderer.
it’s not even worth to say anything,
so low,
Is marring one’s first cousin ,considered inbreeding ? I know a few Chasidic people who have married that way.
In psychology there is a type of person called a” pschycopath” people use the word a lot but don’t know the real meaning. It is someone who has no concience, meaning the most horrible things to them is just like taking a walk. For example “son of Sam” is a good example. So yes he could have a job, drive, and be a psychopath and do horendous acts and not flinch.
Lock him up for life!!!
If he would have made that comment defending a shvartza, sharpton & jackson ym’sh would have already been a human enema.
The jury will obviously have to pick one, “crazy” or “evil”, because that’s the way the justice system works. But in real life, this guy is obviously a bit of both.
in a charedi world that thrives on chumras, maybe it is time for the rabbis to prohibit first cousins from marrying. it is not forbiddebn by the torah however most doctors would frown on the practice
this would be a chumra that makes sense to me…
Imbreeding…….. Good excuse for intermarriage….
It’s not the lawyer’s job to make Jews look good.
It’s not his job to defend the honor and reputation of the Chassidic community.
It’s not his job to even make sense.
His job is to get his client acquitted. With massive physical evidence and the sort of obsessively correct confession procedure that comes with massive public scrutiny he’s reduced to grasping at straws. Insanity defenses very rarely work. “My client is so inbred he eats apples held between his sixth and seventh toes” are even more unlikely.
But that’s what all he’s got, so that’s what he has to go with.
Such empty hot air! Have you geniuses NOT heard of Tay-Sachs Disease, Canavan, Niemann-Pick, Gaucher, Familial Dysautonomia, Bloom Syndrome, Fanconi anemia, Cystic Fibrosis and Mucolipidosis IV??? Do you NOT know that RESPONIBLE Modern Orthodox Yidden get tested for some of the above genes BEFORE making a shidduch? Do you SERIOUSLY mean to contend that a population enclosed within itself, and allows you to marry your niece, or your cousin, will NOT result in greater genetic diseases? Please, the ignorance is stifling.
hes either “Evil or Crazy”????
Try Impure, Impure and Impure. Then try evil gets in and insanity does too.
Once again, the responsible party should be excused due in part to circumstances caused by HIS PAST, HIS UNFORTUNATE BACKGROUND, SOCIETY & RELIGION. How about the truth…he’s not fit to live with humans!
i have a friend with Crone’s and he suffers tremendously. he told me that his grandparents were cousins. geneticist told him that this was probably the root cause. it is vile and disgusting. this wretched little man deserves death, like all murderers.