US man gets 53 years for fatally stabbing Palestinian-American child1 day ago Share Save Brandon Drenon BBC News, Washington DC Share SaveReuters Wadee Alfayoumi had just celebrated his sixth birthday before he was killedAn Illinois landlord who fatally stabbed a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy and severely wounded his mother has been sentenced to 53 years in prison. Czuba had pleaded not guilty, but jurors convicted him after deliberating for less than 90 minutes. Appearing in a red jail uniform, the thin and frail looking convict declined to speak on his own behalf. He stabbed the mother over a dozen times, prosecutors said, then turned towards the boy and stabbed him 26 times. Reuters Joseph Czuba was found guilty of a hate crime for the fatal stabbing of a six-year-old Muslim boy