From NYPost.com
Accused Brooklyn child killer deemed fit to stand trial, pleads not guilty to murder charge
By PERRY CHIARAMONTE and JAMIE SCHRAM
Last Updated: 1:49 PM, August 4, 2011
AP
The remorseless sicko who allegedly kidnapped and later killed 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky told cops who busted him, "I'm famous," according to new court records.
The disturbing revelation came today as Levi Aron was deemed fit to stand trial after pleading not guilty during his arraignment on first-degree murder and kidnapping charges.
Shackled and wearing an orange jumpsuit, Aron said nothing during his court appearance in Brooklyn, where he was charged with murdering Leiby after the lost little boy asked for directions, then got into his car.
Aron also told cops he was hearing voices and that they were telling him to kill himself for what he did to the child.
And he claimed that he was "trying to get back into the Jewish religion," the court records show.
Once in the lockup, Aron sickeningly begged for a meal from McDonalds but had to settle for Chinese food instead.
After his disappearance, parts of Leiby’s body were later found stuffed in a suitcase and dumped a trash bin.
The boy’s feet were found in Aron’s freezer – and Aron told cops he forgot about them when he was stuffing the rest of the boy’s remains into the suitcase, the records show.
After the hearing, Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes vowed there would be no plea bargain in the case and that Aron would stand trial for Leiby’s murder.
"Now that Mr. Aron has been found fit to proceed we will move forward expeditiously to bring his case to trial. I want to reaffirm that this case will go to trial and that there are absolutely no circumstances which would lead me to accept a plea bargain," Hynes said.
Note that "absolutely" shows increase in sensitivity. This may indicate that the subject has been previously accused of accepting pleas when he should have gone to trial.
Records also show that cops grilled the sicko about Patrick Alford, another missing boy, but Aron claimed he had nothing to do with his disappearance.
Aron’s lawyer Pierre Bazille said after the hearing that he may still pursue an insanity defense.
"We believe him to have some psychiatric disorder," he said.
Bazille said Aron is getting "treatment" but would not elaborate.
The Brooklyn DA’s office has said that the boy was given a sickening concoction of drugs, then smothered and dismembered on July 12.
Aron will continue to spend time at Bellevue Hospital as he awaits trial. He is slated to undergo more psychological tests.
Cops said a set of bloody carving knives were recovered from his kitchen.
Before Aron’s arraignment, Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) told the reporters that the "idea of an insanity defense is just not acceptable" to the community.
"He planned and plotted this entire horror that he committed," he said.
It is a shame that the same mentality was not taken into consideration when Noyes was found 'incompetent' to stand trial, as he may be seeking the same refuge by first having himself brought by ambulance to the hospital, and then by checking himself into a mental hospital.
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