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Monster gets 50 to life for strangling pregnant ex-girlfriend, leaving boy to die in fire

A Queens judge threw the book today at a cold-blooded killer convicted for strangling his pregnant ex-girlfriend to death and setting her apartment ablaze – leaving her 2-year-old son to die in the fire.

“No matter how angry you were with Linda, that little boy had nothing to do with your issues…you just left him…you left him to die a brutal death,” said Queens Supreme Court Justice Gregory Lasak before he sentenced Jimmy Humphrey, 25, to 50 years to life for the murder of Linda Anderson and Aiden Hayes.

Anderson, 25, was seven-months pregnant with Humphrey’s first child when they got into an argument inside her St. Albans apartment on July 13, 2010.

“The loss of my sister can never be fixed but at least we can live knowing that justice was served,” wrote Anderson’s brothers Rob and Lamont Langs in an impact statement read by prosecutor Brad Leventhal.

Firefighters responded to an anonymous call — from Humphrey — and discovered Anderson’s burned body with baby Aiden laying nearby, said District Attorney Richard A. Brown about the “vicious murder.”

Little Aiden died of smoke inhalation.

“Linda wasn’t perfect, but she didn’t deserve this brutality that sealed her fate,” read Leventhal, who recommended Humphrey receive the maximum 51 1/3 years to life for the “heinous crime.”

“Instead of solving your problems like a human being, you let your rage take over and you strangled the life out of her,” said Judge Lasak who continued the sentence by quoting the definition depraved indifference.

The jury convicted Humphrey of four-counts of second-degree murder, arson, reckless endangerment and tampering with physical evidence following a month-long trial, said Brown.

Humphrey faced Anderson’s family in the courtroom and offered his condolences as well as apologizing to his own family — who attended every court appearance since his arrest.

“I’m going to pray for you,” said Langs as he tearfully embraced Humphrey’s inconsolable mother outside of court.