Guilty of the man who stabbed a 6 -year -old boy
Guilty of hate crime was judged by a jury body in Illinois USA A 73 -year -old who stabbed a 6 -year -old boy of Palestinian origin in October 2023 and seriously injured his mother.
According to prosecutors, Joseph Chuba killed the little boy motivated by an antimicome hate, as a few days earlier, Hamas' attack on Israel had occurred on October 7, 2023.
Guilty of the man who stabbed a 6 -year -old boy
According to the NBC, the 73 -year -old was convicted of first -degree homicide, attempted homicide, severe bodily harm and hate crimes for the murder of Wady Al Fayyum on October 14, 2023, in a Sikagos suburb.
6 -year -old Wady Al Fayyum, who fell dead by Joseph Chuba's hands in October 2023
He had managed to the unfortunate boy 26 knives and more than 12 to his mother, Hannah Sahin, who managed to keep alive. Chuba's sentence, which is to be announced in May, is likely to reach life.
Sahin testified that Chuba began to speak with hatred for the Muslims after the October 7th attack. « Your people kill Jews and babies in Israel, Muslims are not welcome in my home, you have to move, » she told her, with her answering « pray for peace ».
Were their landlord
Her mother and unjust son rented two rooms from Chuba and his then wife in a Chicago suburb, about 40 miles southwest of the center. The attack on them took place with a military -type knife with a 15cm tooth blade, authorities said. 33 -year -old Sahin suffered a lot of injuries, but managed to keep her alive.
In court, Sahin testified that Chuba told her that « you Muslims have to die. » In the recorded message from Sahin's call in 911 he heard « the landlord kills me and my baby. »
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He said that he and his then wife knew that he was a Muslim and Palestinian descent before they agreed to rent the rooms and that she had no problem in the two years she was rented by them.
She and her ex -husband of Chuba, who filed in favor of the accused, said that in the week preceding the stabs, her husband was outraged by the war between Israel and Hamas.
USA: Rise of Islamophobia
« This decision partly justifies the family of Wady al -Fayyum and sends the clear message that the violence fueled by hatred has no place here, » the Arabian -American against discrimination (ADC) said in a statement.
« We will never accept or never forget that a six -year -old child lost his life because of the dangerous anti -rhetoric, » he added.
Human rights organizations are observing Islamophobia and anti -Semitism in the US after Hamas' attack in October 2023 and the Israeli military operation in Gaza that followed.
