Kentucky child killer who stabbed sleeping boy to death released from prison as father slams judicial system
A Kentucky child killer who butchered a sleeping boy to death but was acquitted by reason of insanity was released from prison on Wednesday– as the boy’s father fumed at the judicial system.Ronald Exantus served out his entire prison sentence and was back on the streets after he was released from the Kentucky Department of Corrections for the deadly Dec.7, 2015, stabbing melee that killed 6-year-old Logan Tipton.“Pursuant to state laws passed by Kentucky’s General Assembly, Ronald Exantus has served the sentence issued by the Woodford Circuit Court and has been released.
He is no longer in the custody of the Department of Corrections.The Kentucky Parole Board did not release Exantus, and he was not released early,” the state’s Department of Corrections said, WKYT reported.Exantus doesn’t face any other probation regarding the killing.
Tipton’s father, Dean Tipton, said his family was punished more than his son’s killer, who was charged with assault.“The judge and jury gave this monster a slap on the wrist while handing down a life sentence to my family,” the heartbroken father wrote on Facebook Wednesday.“Trying really hard to not let this break me….I’ve carried so much over the years since Logan going to be with our Lord.
I have woke up everyday, put on my fake ass smile and have carried on with life and literally living through hell.Today though, I’m having a hard time trying to figure out how to go on with life.
Knowing that this monster gets to walk free and live his life, while I lay in this bed and my baby boy is in the grave.This may be my breaking point,” he added.The now-42-year-old had broken into a Versailles, Ky., home, where he butchered little Logan Tipton to death while the kindergartner slept.Exantus also stabbed Dean Tipton and his two sisters, telling the one sibling, Dakota, that he would kill the entire family.The madman was arrested and tried for the kindergartner’s killing but was found not guilty of murde...