Leiby Kletzky (HANDOUT)
The father of the Brooklyn boy who was slain and butchered after he got lost walking home from day camp is demanding a nine-figure damages award from the child’s alleged killer, according to a lawsuit made public today.
Calling the murder of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky “one of the most horrific crimes in the history of the County of Kings,” Nachman Kletzky is asking for $100 million in punitive damages along with unspecified compensatory damages from Levi Aron, who is charged with Leiby’s murder, the suit says.
“The defendant’s culpable acts … were utterly reckless, malicious, wanton, willful and exhibited a depraved indifference to the health, safety, freedom and rights … of Leiby Kletzky,” the suit says.
Kletzky has also filed a second $100 million suit against the monster’s father, Jack Aron, who owns the home where the grisly murder took place at East 2nd Street in Brooklyn.
The elder Aron, the suit says, “permitt[ed] tools of terror to be and remain at said premises, knowing of the vicious, assaultive and murderous propensities of his son, Levi Aron, who resided at said premises.”
Kletzky’s lawyer Mark Goldsmith said, “Ultimately a trier of the facts will determine damages.”
Goldsmith also said that the reason for the suits “is a sense of justice and to compensate the family as best we can.”
Goldsmith said the second suit, aimed at Aron’s father, was also warranted.
“We find it hard to believe that he [the father] was unaware the boy was in the house all that time,” he said.
Aron admitted to abducting Leiby on July 11 after the child became disoriented walking home alone from day camp for the first time.
Cops said he later confessed to smothering the child and then carving up the body, tossing some of Leiby’s body parts into a Dumpster, but leaving his feet in the freezer.
Aron’s defense lawyers in the criminal action have indicated they will pursue an insanity defense.
Defense lawyer Jennifer McCann said she was handling just the criminal case. Said she was unaware whether Aron has a civil lawyer.