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I felt sick reading this...

That poor poor baby

How are there such sick people walking all around us


ETA: I just saw a new story on this that said the guy said he panicked when he saw the missing story about the boy....

I have no words for this SOB except I hope he rots in he11

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Posted by memi7206

Posted by MrsA714

Posted by BabyLove08

I just caught the end of the press conference and I THINK I heard a reporter ask something about any relevance to 9/11 or the time 9:11, did anyone catch that?

This is the most horrific crime ever. I am sick, sad and crying for this poor family. I swear, I am NEVER letting my DD out alone, I just can't anymore.

I didn't hear the press conference but someone just told me that the police said that the boy apparently got lost and this guy told him he would help and take him where he needed to go

good lord, he was probably scared then to begin with......UGH, and to think he thought he was being helped when he was lost and just wanted to get home. Its all just to heartbreaking.

Seriously, what is the chance that the first time he walks home alone, he gets lost and the person who "helps" him is a murderer?!?!?! This is just awful on so many levels!!!! There are probably a million people on the streets of Brooklyn and this all happens at the same time this one EVIL EVIL b@stard is out and about! I cant even fathom.

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The problem is, as I posted on other thread, is not that he walked alone. I think since it was such a tight knit community, who would think someone they knew was like this? The boy probably trusted him. Guess we have to be stricter with our "don't talk to strangers" guidelines.

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This story is so disturbing. I pray for his family and friends. What a tragedy.

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I would be in jail right now with blood on my hands.. I would have tore that motherf!cker to pieces for doing that to my baby

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so very very tragic. His poor poor parents.. Someone on the news was saying that children are sometimes taught to find someone who looks like their family to help, obviously this can never be the case again. What is this world coming to. I feel like I can never let my baby out of sight until she is 21!

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Its horrible.

They are so insulated I wonder if the little guy got lost and asked someone who was religious and looked "safe".
This guy is a sicko f*cko and should rot.

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So, so horrible. I honestly cannot understand how someone could be so heartless and cruel to do that..........to a child no less. I can't even begin to imagine how his parents must be feeling. To hear that your poor child was not only murdered but cut up and thrown in the trash as if he's nothing. It's just so disgusting.

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I was watching on CNN (online) and they said the family did know this man.

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they said he told the boy to wait while he went into the dentists office....he did.....he stood there for SEVEN minutes waiting for the man he thought would help him. It literally just makes me sob. To think of that poor innocent boy, just being there, waiting for him, for what he thought was help to get him back to his mommy and daddy. I cannot.

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Horrible. I just can't understand why anyone would do something like that. So sad

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What a horrible story... Thoughts to his family.

What kind of monster does this to a child... or to anyone for that matter!?!

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First and foremost I am shocked by this tragedy and my prayers go out to the family.

Here's my take on this:

In order to truly appreciate this story, I think you have to understand the neighborhood of Boro Park and the community in general.

An earlier poster said something like "why is this kid allowed to walk home from camp, I have to sign them out", or talking to your kids about strangers since they are old enough to understand. These types of things that are common practices here are NOT common practices in this community. All of the schools and other activities are not concerned with paperwork for lawsuits and all of that stuff that camps/schools/whatever are here because they are all run by the community and include only members of this community, no outsiders allowed.

Anyone who knows Boro Park well knows that its very common to see many small children out on the sidewalks alone at any time of the day. Its probably at least 3-4 times a day I see what I'm assuming the oldest sibling who is probably no older that 11 or 12 walking somewhere with 4 or 5 other siblings, and sometimes even pushing a baby carriage. This is common and in general a safe neighborhood. The families all know each other, and there is a sense of security there.

It is not uncommon to be walking down the sidewalk and notice a car pull up full of Hasidic people and just pick up random people who are also Hasidic in order to give them a ride. Its obvious in these cases that its people wanting to help their neighbors out and the intentions are good, but it is an example of how the children of the community are led to believe that all people of the same faith and group as they are, are good people. It is also known that these children are not taught about strangers in the schools or by parents. To them, there are no strangers in their neighborhood since it's so tight knit.

When I first heard about this story, I knew right away that the abductor was someone from the same community. Many of the children shy away from people who are not from the same community, not because of bias (they are too young to understand that), but because they look for what is familiar to them and modern people appear different from what they are used to. Its possible, although I don't know this to be fact, that this child did not speak english but only yiddish. I think by the time a child is 8 they do speak english but I have seen countless children under 4 or 5 who don't. I'm sure this boy approached this man in particular because he looks like the people he knows or maybe because he thought he spoke yiddish. He had no fear of this man, much to his detriment.

I hope if any good can come out of this horrible tragedy that the parents of Boro Park are going to work together by teaching children about strangers and step up neighborhood patrols.

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They've made an arrest

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I can't stop thinking about this boy. Between this, Caylee Anthony, and the Anniversary of the Taconic accident I am a blubbering mess. This world that we live in scares the hell out of me.

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Posted by Diana1215

I can't stop thinking about this boy. Between this, Caylee Anthony, and the Anniversary of the Taconic accident I am a blubbering mess. This world that we live in scares the hell out of me.

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Posted by CrankyPants

Posted by Diana1215

I can't stop thinking about this boy. Between this, Caylee Anthony, and the Anniversary of the Taconic accident I am a blubbering mess. This world that we live in scares the hell out of me.

Add in the Jaycee Duggard special and I am right there with you. I just can't handle these stories.

Message edited 7/14/2011 8:24:08 AM.

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Posted by Diana1215

Posted by CrankyPants

Posted by Diana1215

I can't stop thinking about this boy. Between this, Caylee Anthony, and the Anniversary of the Taconic accident I am a blubbering mess. This world that we live in scares the hell out of me.

Add in the Jaycee Duggard special and I am right there with you. I just can't handle these stories.

Yes! Actually, how could I forget that. I was watching it last night and just couldn't watch anymore. I had to put on the Road Rules Challenge. It's no wonder I watch trash TV all the time

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It's just so sad. All of it. The FIRST time he walked home alone. The poor kid the poor parents. And it is a really insular community, most people know each other. The guy probably even told him he knows his dad and knows where he lives and offered to bring him home. It's a community where people generally would look after each other like that in my understanding...He probably felt safe with that man.

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this story made me sick to my stomach - i almost couldn't go to bed last night. i just kept dwelling on it and the news reports are just haunting.

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