Court hands down three life sentences for child murder

Budapest, January 10 (MTI) – A court in Pecs left in place an earlier ruling of real life sentences to three perpetrators who brutally murdered a child in October 2012 in western Hungary.

Erika Polcz was found guilty of hiring two homeless men, Jozsef Bogdan and Jozsef Kertesz, to kill 11-year-old Bence Szita because she thought the boy was responsible for the breakdown of her relationship with his stepfather. The two men lured the boy to a forest near the city of Kaposvar, where they clubbed him with a spade and stabbed him several times. They then buried the boy alive.

The event drew a storm of indignation in 2012 and Jobbik even held a torch-lit demonstration to demand the institution of capital punishment.

Photo: MTI – Tamás Sóki

Source: http://hungarymatters.hu/