aries2756: The police have stated that it seems he got lost and asked for directions, they have also stated that it seemed the rotzach did not do anything to the child beforehand.
Personally I heard from an older and wise Rov regarding tragedies that he cannot know for certain what to learn from them as nevuah is botul.
As such I feel that while we personally may not be able to identify what to learn from this horrible tragedy one thing is obvious.
I beleive that there is no case in the last 60 years at least of an ostensibly orthodox man having done such a heinous crime.
Yes, I am aware that people will say that this is different, this man was crazy.
However crazy people did not just come about, they were always here and yet this did not happen. Period.
When a person is found dead the ziknei haeir must bring an egla arufah, when a tragedy occured near an Amora chazal tell us that Eliyahu Hanavi did not appear to him for three days since he was held partly responsible that such a tragedy could occur in his vicinty.
We as a whole must look inside of ourselves and ask how is it that such a tragedy could occur in the heart of our community? How could such a thing happen.
YES it does mean that we as a whole have sunk one level and we must use it as a wake up call to examine ourselves.
Lastly I would remark that recently three Gedolei Yisroel were niftar, people said they were old, now that an eight year old little boy has been brutally murdered under circumstances unparelled in history what will we say?