Kentucky child killer walks free on 'good behavior,' gets arrested again within days

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A antheral who was released from situation aboriginal aft racking up bully behaviour credits pursuing his condemnation for fatally stabbing a 6-year-old Kentucky lad during a 2015 location penetration was re-arrested weeks aboriginal for violating his parole. 

Ronald Exantus, 42, of Indianapolis, was serving a 20-year condemnation for the sidesplitting of Logan Tipton, who was brutally slain successful his Versailles, Kentucky home, erstwhile helium was released backmost onto the streets successful October.

Despite confessing, Exantus was recovered not blameworthy of execution by crushed of insanity astatine trial. Instead, a assemblage recovered him blameworthy of the different assaults connected Logan's household that took spot during the location invasion. 

CONVICTED KILLER OF 6-YEAR-OLD BOY WALKS FREE AFTER SERVING LESS THAN HALF HIS 20-YEAR SENTENCE

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Ronald Exantus, 42, served 8 years of a 20-year condemnation aft being recovered blameworthy for assault. (Fox News Channel)

The merchandise came aft helium racked up credits that allowed him to shave 9 years disconnected his sentence. 

"Something needs to beryllium changed due to the fact that it cannot beryllium that easy. You’ve committed a precise heinous transgression and it’s conscionable fixed to you," Logan’s sister, Kora Tipton, said of Exantus’ aboriginal release.

On Oct. 1, Exantus was released earlier moving to Marion County, Florida. However, helium was arrested 8 days aboriginal for failing to registry arsenic a convicted felon with the section sheriff’s bureau wrong 48 hours of arriving, which was required by the conditions of his parole, the New York Post reported.  

He has since been extradited backmost to Kentucky. However, helium could beryllium released adjacent twelvemonth with nary parole restrictions. 

"There’s nary crushed for immoderate of america to ever person to locomotion down the thoroughfare and perchance spot our son’s murderer," Dean Tipton, Logan’s father, told WKYT-TV earlier this week. 

FAMILY OF 6-YEAR-OLD STABBED TO DEATH ‘SICKENED’ BY SUSPECT'S EARLY PRISON RELEASE

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Logan Tipton, 6, was stabbed to decease portion sleeping successful his Kentucky home. His killer, Ronald Exantus, 42, was released aboriginal successful October, lone to beryllium re-arrested days later.  (The Tipton Family/Fox News Channel)

The substance has enactment Kentucky's transgression justness strategy successful the spotlight. 

"He committed crimes against Kentuckians — Kentuckians person a close to cognize what benignant of credits he's getting," said Ronnie Bowling, apical authoritative successful Whitley and McCreary counties and president of the Kentucky Commonwealth's Attorneys' Association, told the quality Lex 18 news. "I've seen radical get bully clip recognition for learning to play guitar — it was considered an acquisition recognition which reduced the clip of their sentence."

Exantus, was capable to shave 5 years disconnected of his clip for bully behavior, successful summation to different 2 years for exceptional meritorious work and 10 months for completing acquisition programs, according to the quality outlet.

Ronald Exantus mug shot

Ronald Exantus mug (Kentucy Online Offender Lookup)

At the clip of his release, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said the Trump medication was looking into the matter. 

"I tin corroborate the White House is looking into this. It’s wholly unacceptable for a kid slayer to locomotion escaped aft conscionable respective years successful prison," she wrote connected X astatine the time. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the White House. 

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6-year-old Logan Tipton was murdered portion sleeping successful his Kentucky home. His household is sickened by the aboriginal merchandise of his killer. (Fox News/The Tipton Family)

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In effect to Exantus' release, authorities Rep. TJ Roberts is pushing for Logan's Law, a measure which would abolish mandatory reentry supervision.

"We’re going to marque it to wherever if an idiosyncratic is charged with aggregate crimes for the aforesaid incidental similar we had here, you can’t person a divided verdict connected sanity versus insanity," Roberts said.

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