The landlord of Plainfield gets the 6-year-old Palestinian American boy for 53 years in prison in hate crimes

A landlord of Plainfield was convicted of 53 years in prison on Friday because he had attacked his Palestinian American tenant and killed her son, the 6-year-old Wade Al Fayoumi,-26 times in one of the most violent hate crimes to follow October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks in Israel.

But the verdict was not enough to comfort the boy's grandfather, who asked the convicted Joseph Czuba in court, to explain why he did it.

“We want to know what has made him,” Mahmoud Yousef told the judge shortly before the conviction. “What kind of news he heard, either on TV or on the radio or whatever, that made him do it [of] Crime.”

The public prosecutor said that Czuba was radicalized by conservative news comments about the war in Gaza.

Yousef then turned and stared at Czuba and said: “Say for our peace of mind, Mr. Joseph.”

But the answers didn't come.

Czuba refused to speak to County Richter Amy Bertani-Tomczak, who condemned the prison sentence: 30 years for the murder of Wadeee; 20 for trying to kill his mother Hanan Shaheen; and two 3-year sentences that are also to be admitted to the counts of hate criminal. The judge also did not comment on describing it as a brutal crime.

It was not the maximum judgment of life that the judge could have imposed. But Czuba will probably not survive his sentence. His lawyer said the 73-year-old had cancer in stage 4.

After the court, Wadee's father said that he was still confused about how Czuba, of which he said he once admired his boy and regarded him as a “angel”, changed so suddenly and described him as a “devil Muslim”, as the prosecutors claimed in court.

Yousef said reporters that no judgment could bring justice.

“It doesn't matter what numbers are. He took life to us,” he said.

James Glasgow wants County County, who is described in a statement as “cruelty” of Czuba's actions as “really unfathomable”.

Czuba was convicted of all charges at the end of February after a four -day trial. Prosecutors said that he had carried out the murder after increasing Paranoid about the war in Gaza after listening to comments on the conservative talk radio. A jury thought about an hour before condemning it of all charges.

On Friday, the lawyer of Czuba tried to convince the judge to dismiss the judgment and apply for a new procedure, and argued that the prosecutors had used emotional language during the final arguments. But the judge submitted the application.

The conviction concludes a case in which international attention to Islamophobia in America after the attacks of Hamas in Israel attracted on October 7, 2023. Thousands of visited Wade's funeral. At the beginning of this year, Wadees Mother Shaheen discussed with Islamophobia with the then President Joe Biden in the White House.

During the experiment, Shaheen said that Czuba treated them differently after the attacks on October 7th. She said he said to her: “Your people kill Jew [people] And babies in Israel. Muslims are not welcome here, not in my house. “

On the morning of October 14, 2023, Czuba hit her door when Shaheen was in her bathroom and prepared to take her son showering, she said. Czuba pushed into the unit and stabbed it when screaming: “You Muslim have to die,” she said.

Shaheen joined in a bathroom and called 911, she said. But while she was inside, she heard her son screaming. The police arrived and found 62 pound wades on a bed and bleed. He had been stabbed 26 times. The officials found Czuba on the Blood with blood with a holster for a knife attached to his side.

Czuba was recorded in the back of a patrol car and told an officer that he was afraid of his life.

“I was afraid that they would make me Jihad,” he said in a video that was shown during the process.

The now ex-wife of Czuba, who was not at home at the time of the attack, said that she had resorted to Czuba's claims that Shaheen would bring friends to harm him. She said that Czuba had no reservations about Shaheen's Muslim faith or Palestinian background when he rented her on the Czuba Lincoln Highway in 2021.

The judgment praised the Chicago chapter of the Council for American Islamic relations.

“No judgment can restore what has been recorded, but today's result provides a necessary level of justice,” said Ahmed Rehab, Executive Director of Cair-Chicago, in a statement. “Wade was an innocent child. He was targeted because he was – Muslim, Palestinian and loved. Our work is now to ensure that no other child suffers from the fatal consequences of hatred.