The ex-wife of a man accused this week of killing an 8-year-old boy in New York asked Memphis authorities in 2006 for protection from him, saying he'd punched her with a closed fist, threatened to ruin her name in the community and have her children taken away.
According to court records, Deborah Parnell Aron claimed her then-husband, Levi Aron, had been diagnosed with a behavioral disorder and that he took medication for the condition.
On Dec. 18, 2006, she said, her estranged husband showed up at her home and was let in by a family member. She told authorities he approached her as she was trying to sleep and asked her to have sex with him. She refused.
Earlier that day, Levi Aron had called her and told her that if she didn't sleep with him he would kill himself, court records show.
Deborah Aron told police she'd received roughly 100 phone calls and many text messages -- including some that called her derogatory names -- every day for three months. She also said he used profanity in front of her children.
The order of protection was dismissed in January 2007 at Deborah Aron's request. The couple divorced the same year.
Levi Aron, 35, who moved to Memphis and worked as a meat cutter at Kroger during his brief time in the Bluff City before moving back to Brooklyn, N.Y., is charged with second-degree murder.
He is accused of kidnapping, killing and dismembering an 8-year-old Hasidic Jewish boy who asked him for directions. Prosecutors say he lured Leiby Kletzky to his home Monday after the little boy got lost while walking home from a day camp.
Aron told police he killed Leiby when he got home after being spooked by a massive search for the boy in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, home to one of the world's largest communities of Orthodox Jews outside of Israel.
Detectives found the child's feet in Aron's freezer. "When I saw the fliers, I panicked and was afraid," Aron said, according to police.
Investigators are checking whether the suspect had improper contact with children in the past. They also have been examining three computers seized from his home.
Aron was ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation after his attorney told the judge his client might be mentally ill. He has pleaded not guilty.
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