Woman allegedly tried to drown Palestinian-American girl, aged 3

The US’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization is calling for #hate #crime charges to be filed against a Texas woman accused of 🔸trying to drown a three-year-old Palestinian-American girl 🔸while saying that the child’s mother wasn’t really American.

For now, the suspect in the case has been booked on counts of attempted murder and injury to a child.

The case dates back to 19 May, when police in Euless, Texas,
were called to an apartment complex swimming pool where there had been reports of a disturbance between two women, according to the local NBC affiliate.

Witnesses told police “a woman who was very intoxicated had tried to drown a child and argued with the child’s mother”, said a police news release reviewed by CNN.

The child’s mother told police that the alleged attacker
– since identified as 42-year-old Elizabeth Wolf
– questioned where she was from and whether the two children playing in the pool were hers, police said.
Wolf also made statements about the mother not being an American, police added.
In a news release on Friday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) said the child’s mother wore a hijab and modest swimwear,
and she was watching her children play in the shallow end of the pool when Wolf approached her.

“The alleged attacker reportedly approached the mother with racist interrogations then
jumped into the swimming pool and
grabbed the children to the deep end of the pool to allegedly drown them,”
the statement said, adding that the mother’s six-year-old son was able to escape but her three-year-old daughter was unable to do the same.

“The alleged attacker snatched off the mother’s head scarf and used it to beat the mother as well as kicking her
to keep her away while forcing her daughter’s head underwater,”

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Texas woman allegedly tried to drown Palestinian-American girl, aged 3

Civil liberties group calls for hate crime charges against suspect in alleged racist attack at apartment complex pool

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