After vocal public pressure, police in Euless, Texas are officially investigating the incident as a hate crime.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.Elizabeth Wolf was rearrested on June 27 and charged with attempted capital murder of a person under 10 years old and injury to a child. Her bail was set to US$1 million.woman accused of attempting to drown a three-year-old Muslim child in a swimming pool was rearrested last week and her bond increased to US$1 million.
The mother, who along with her children has not been named publicly, told police Wolf pulled the boy and girl into the deep end of the pool after a racist confrontation. As Wolf allegedly attempted to drown the children, the mother said she jumped into the pool as well.The six-year-old boy was reportedly able to escape, but Wolf allegedly continued to hold the three-year-old girl under the water.
“We are American citizens, originally from Palestine, and I don’t know where to go to feel safe with my kids,” she said. “My country is facing a war, and we are facing that hate here. My daughter is traumatized; whenever I open the apartment door, she runs away and hides, telling me she is afraid the lady will come and immerse her head in the water again.
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