Zdad, please stop your LH and MSR. I remember the case, and I know exactly what the issues were. It was not even clear who killed the kid. Suffice it to say the mother was not physically strong enough to have done what she was accused of, and the father would not have been fit to stand trial.
The story about any Rebbe and any brochos was not even publicized in the worst trash paper, and at the time I read Ponim Chalashois as well as the Village Voice (the first for a good laugh and the latter for professional reasons, in my office beis kisse) so I knew what was in the worst trash paper.
I guess you subscribed to Der Stuermer back then, because that is the only paper that would carry such lies.