Pedophile bus aide stabbed ‘vegetable’ dementia-sufferer wife to death
Harvy Kneifl, 72, stabbed his dementia-stricken 'vegetable' wife 14 times because he believed he was going to go to jail for molesting girls on a school bus and did not know who would take care of her.
A bus aide who molested young girls on his school bus admitted to stabbing his dementia-stricken ‘vegetable’ wife to death.
Harvey Kneifl, 72, said he killed his wife, Julie, in January because ‘She was in constant pain, constant suffering.’
Kneifl was sentenced to 30 years in jail on Tuesday in a courtroom in Stillwater, Minnesota where he said: ‘She was living the life of, basically, a vegetable…I decided to help her move on to the next life where she would no longer have any pain or suffering.’
Kneifl, who supervised young children on a bus route, spoke candidly in court about how he stabbed his wife 14 times at the St Therese of Woodbury senior living home, the Twin Cities Pioneer Press reported.
He said : ‘I slit her carotid artery so her death would be fast and painless. I wanted to kill her and have it be quick and painless.’
Kneifl explained that, after he killed his wife, he removed her blood-covered shirt and covered her with a blanket, then used towels to clean up. Afterwards, he tried to kill himself, but police found him and arrested him first.
Julie Kneifl had Parkinson’s disease, which caused her to have dementia, Harvey said in court. His lawyer, Nathan Sosinski, said he killed her because he was going to jail for molesting girls on the school bus and did not know who would take care of her.
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Sosinski said: ‘He thought he was going to prison. He was concerned about who was going to take care of her, and he was worried about being a burden. That was what was in his head.’
Kneifl was convicted of three counts of criminal sexual conduct after he was accused of groping at least six girls, aged four to seven, on the bus, ABC reported.
Surveillance videos from the bus captured the abuse and were shown in a courtroom in May.
In one of the videos, Kneifl can be seen rubbing a four-year-old girl’s genital area as he can be heard asking: ‘Does that feel good? Do you like it? Does that feel good.’
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Another video shows Kneifl touching another four-year-old girls inner thigh and genital area for 27 seconds, according to the Twin Cities Pioneer Press.
Kneifl is set to be sentenced in June for sex abuse. In court on Tuesday, one of the victim’s parents shouted: ‘you touched the wrong 4-year-old girl!’