Levi Aron has 'personality disorder'

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a person charged with killing and dismembering an eight-year-old ny townboy is confused and apathetic, a "practically blank" personality, in line with a psychiatric assessmentobtained by The Associated Press.The court-ordered assessmentof Levi Aron found him fit to face trial on murder charges within the death of Leiby Kletzky.informationwithin the report from a psychiatrist and psychologist at Kings County Hospital displaythe three5-year-old suspect is deeply troubled, and has given authorities conflicting accounts of his life and his mental and physical history.Aron, 35, has pleaded not guilty to murder and kidnapping within the death of Kletzky, who got lost walking home from a Brooklyn religious day camp on July 11. The boy's severed feet were present in Aron's refrigerator, the remainder of the body was discovered in pieces in a suitcase elsewhere in Brooklyn.A psychologist diagnosed him with an adjustment disorder and an individualality disorder with schizoid features.Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterised by disintegration of thought processes and diminished emotional responsiveness. an personis far more more likely to have it if an in intensitymember of the family, this type ofs his sister who died, hbecause it."His mood is neutral, practically blank," the psychologist wrote. "the one time he seems to turn any emotional response is when he's asked trickyquestions concerning the cause of his incarceration."The assessmentgiveslittle informationon a potential motive and doesn't delve much into the crime. Aron admitted knowing the fees against him are serious, and acknowledged that people are angry with him."He states he didn't needthe boy damagebut that he 'panicked'," the psychologist wrote.through the evaluation, Aron, wearing regulation pyjamas and "well-groomed", gave conflicting accounts of maximuminformationof his life."Mr Aron is unable (unwilling?) to state categorically even ifhe was in prior psychiatric treatment," the psychologist wrote.Aron also was untransparentconcerning the voices he says he heard during and after the boy's death. He said he doesn't remember anything stressful happening when he started to listen to the voice."He admitted to us that he started to listen to a voice speaking tohim approximately 365 days ago, but cannot make out what it says," in line with the psychiatrist, who had recommended Aron remain at Bellevue Hospital. A judge disagreed and Aron isn't anyw being held without bail at a medical wing at Riker's Island that in solitary confinement."He says he was too embarrassed to say it to anyone," the report said.Ardirectly told the psychologist the voice doesn't command him to do anything, but he told doctors after his arrest thon the voice commanded him to damagehimself and others, in line with the records.The psychiatric assessmentwas ordered in particularto figure out whether Aron can be fit for trial. The Brooklyn District Attorney's office had no comment.Aron's lawyer, Pierre Bazile, said the records obtained by the AP were accurate."The evaluators agreed with us that Mr Aron suffers from a fewpsychiatric disorders and at this time we're investigating even ifhis disorders are sufficient to satisfy the not guilty because of guystal disease or mental defect threshold," he said.Aron was employed as a troublesomeware clerk, and earlier as an idealmarket worker and a caterer. Aron spent much of his time online, and made a large number of audio and video recordings of himself doing karaoke.He lived alone in a house owned by his father and step-mother, his brother lived in a separate apartment. His mother died about seven years ago.A pre-trial hearing is about for October 14.

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Is this a bad OCR of a document - or a translation and retranslation back to english? This is an important area of criminal law and of the justice system - but the above does not really do it justice.

 

there is a wikipage here describing the circumstances of the death of Leiby Kletzky and many news reports on the ongoing trial are accessible by searching news on google