New ‘insanity’ proposal after man who fatally stabbed child moved next to Marion County elementary school

MARION COUNTY, Fla. – After a Kentucky man who fatally stabbed a 6-year-old was released from prison early and moved to Central Florida, the state’s attorney general is now pushing for changes to the state’s “insanity defense.”

The attorney general’s office revealed that the man — identified as Ronald Exantus, 42 — had stood trial in 2015 after fatally stabbing a young boy in Versailles, Kentucky.

“He had stabbed 6-year-old Logan Tipton over 20 times in the head while the little boy was sleeping,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said…

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