A Texas woman arrested after attempting to drown a 3-year-old girl and injuring her 6-year-old brother has now been formally charged with attacking the children because they are Muslim.
According to Fox 4, a Tarrant County grand jury on August 15 indicted Elizabeth Wolf, 42, on charges of attempted murder and injury to a child in connection with the May attacks on children.
The indictment also includes an aggravated hate crime charge, alleging that Wolf targeted children because they were “Muslim or Middle Eastern.”
If she is convicted, her sentence could be extended due to the aggravated hate crime charge.
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Elizabeth Wolf, 42, is charged with attempted murder and injury to a child. (Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office)
Investigators said Wolf was intoxicated and yelling racist slurs at an apartment pool in Euless, Texas, on May 19 when he approached a Palestinian woman wearing a hijab and her two children, Fox 4 reported.
The 32-year-old woman told police Wolf approached her and asked where she was from and if the two children playing in the pool were hers.
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When the woman responded “yes,” Wolfe then grabbed the woman’s 6-year-old son, pulled him away from the woman and began scratching him, police said.
Later, while the woman was helping her son, Wolf allegedly grabbed the woman’s 3-year-old daughter and pushed her underwater in the pool.
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Both children have physically recovered, police said.
Wolf remains in the Tarrant County Jail on $1 million bail.
