An Illinois man was sentenced on Friday to 53 years behind bars for the racially motivated killing of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy.

Thin and frail, 73-year-old Joseph Czuba heard what amounted to a likely life sentence for murder and attempted murder from Will County Judge Amy Bertani-Tomczak.

A jury in February found the landlord, Czuba, guilty of first-degree murder, attempted murder, aggravated battery, and hate crimes for the Oct. 14, 2023, killing of Wadee Alfayoumi, whose family was tenants of the murderer.

Czuba was sentenced to 30 years for killing Wadee, who was stabbed 26 times.

Czuba also wounded the boy’s mother, Hanan Shaheen, whom he stabbed more than a dozen times in the Chicago suburb of Plainfield Township.

In addition to the 30 years for Wadee’s killing, Zauba was hit with a 20-year sentence for attacking the boy’s mother and an additional 3-year term for a hate crime.

All of the sentences are set to run consecutively.

The boy’s great uncle, Mahmoud Yousef, said he was a grandfather figure to the victim.

“No matter what the sentence is going to be, it’s not going to justify” the boy’s death, the prosecution’s only witness told the court on Friday. “The day he was killed, his father had memories, had plans for his son.”