Joliet, sick. – Illinois owner found guilty of mean hate crime which left a 6-year-old Muslim boy dead and wounded his mother days after the beginning War in Gaza 2023. He was due in court on Friday because of the sentence.
The jury has condemned 73-year Joseph Czube in February of the murder and hate crime in fatal sting Continue AlfayoumiWho was Palestinian American, and the wounding of his mother, Faucet Shahaen. The family has rented rooms in Czubi’s home in Plainfield, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) from Chicago, 2023. year when the attack took place.
The central in case of prosecutors was Trembling testify From the boy’s mother, who said the Czuba attacked her before he crossed her son, insisting that they had to leave because they were Muslims. The prosecutors also played 911 calls and showed police shots. Czubana’s wife, Mary, who has been divorced since then, witnessed for the prosecution, saying he became upset because of Israel-Hamas Warwho broke out the days earlier.
Police said the Czuba withdrew a knife from the holder to the belt and broke the boy 26 times, leaving the knife in the children’s body. Some of the damn photos from crime scene were so explicit that the judge agreed to turn the television screens displayed from the audience, which included Wadee’s relatives.
“He couldn’t escape,” Michael Fitzgerald said, a lawyer for assistant state separate will the jurors, they told jurors. “If it wasn’t enough for this accused killing that little boy, he left the knife in the body of a little boy.”
The jury considers 90 minutes before the return of the verdict. The Czuba is eligible for the minimum prison sentence of 20 to 60 years or life, state the County State’s law office.
The prosecutors refused to comment on the previous Friday and did not say what punishment they would look for. Illinois has no death penalty.
The attack renewed fears of antimuslim discrimination and struck especially hard in the ordinary field and the surrounding suburb, which have a large and established Palestinian community. Wadee’s funeral drew large crowds and plainfield officials dedicated the playground in the park in his honor.
Czuba didn’t speak during the trial. His defenders claimed that in case there were holes. His public defense counsel, George Lenard, did not address reporters and refused a comment in front of the sentence.
Shaheen had more than a a dozen stab wounds And it took her week to recovery.
She said that there were no prior questions from Czubas in two years, even shared the kitchen and living room.
Then after the beginning of the war, the Czuba told her that they had to move out because Muslims were welcome. He later faced Shaheena and attacked her, holding her, stabbed her stabbed and tried to break his teeth.
“He told me,”, as a Muslim, must die, “Shaheen said, who testified in English and Arabic, although the translator.
Police testified that officials found Czuba outside the house, sitting on earth with blood on the body and hands.
They are separately submitted to civilian lawsuits due to the boy’s death, including his father, Odai Alfayoumi, who divorces from Shaheena and did not live with them. The American Ministry of Justice also launched the Federal Investigation of Hate Crimes.
2025-05-02 04:30:00
