A woman has been charged with attempted murder after being accused of trying to drown a three-year-old girl in an alleged racist attack.
A witness described Elizabeth Wolf as “very drunk” when she allegedly tried to drown the boy in a pool after a fight with her. Palestinian mother, police said.
The 42-year-old man was first arrested in May at an apartment complex with a pool in Euless, in the US state of Texas due to public intoxication.
Following a police investigation, she has now been charged with attempted murder and injury to a child.
The Texas chapter of the civil rights group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Texas) claimed that Wolf “interrogated” the boy’s mother.
CAIR-Texas said the mother was wearing a hijab and speaking to her children in a foreign language when Wolf approached her.
Police said that after questioning the woman, Wolf allegedly tried to grab her six-year-old son and was able to escape, but suffered a cut finger.
While the woman was helping her son, Wolf allegedly grabbed the woman’s three-year-old daughter and forced her under.
CAIR-Texas said that with the help of a nearby witness, the mother was able to get her daughter to safety before emergency services arrived.
He has called on authorities to investigate the incident as a hate crime.
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The group quoted the girl’s mother as saying: “We are American citizens, originally from Palestine, and I don’t know where to go to feel safe with my children.
“My country is facing a war and we are facing that hatred here.
“My daughter is traumatized; every time I open the apartment door, she runs out and hides, telling me that she is afraid that the lady will come and submerge her head in the water again.”
Texas State Representative Salman Bhojani said: “I am shocked and dismayed by this alleged racist and Islamophobic event that took place in my city.
“Hate has no place in Euless, District 92, or anywhere else in our great state.”
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