A Texas woman arrested for trying to drown a three-year-old girl and injuring the girl’s six-year-old brother has been formally charged after she was accused of attacking the children because they were Muslim.
A Tarrant County jury on Aug. 15 indicted Elizabeth Wolf, 42, on charges of attempted murder and aggravated battery to a child in connection with her attacks on the children in May, according to Fox 4.
The indictment also included a enhancement of hate crimesand said Wolf targeted the children because they were “Muslim or people of Middle Eastern descent.”
The hate crime enhancement could lead to a longer sentence if she is convicted.
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Elizabeth Wolf, 42, was charged with attempted murder and causing bodily harm to a child. (Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office)
Investigators said Wolf was drunk at an apartment pool in the Euless, Texason May 19 when she made racist remarks and approached a Palestinian woman wearing a hijab and her two children, Fox 4 reported.
The 32-year-old woman told police that Wolf approached her and asked where she was from and if the two children playing by the pool were hers.
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When she agreed, Wolf grabbed the woman’s six-year-old son, pulled him away from her and scratched him, police said.
Then, when the woman helped her son, Wolf allegedly grabbed the woman’s three-year-old daughter and forced her underwater in the pool.
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Both children recovered physically, according to police.
Wolf is left in Tarrant County Prison on a $1 million bond.