Authorities in Euless near Dallas announced this week that a woman accused of attempting to drown a 3-year-old Muslim child has been rearrested after a judge increased her bail to $1 million, ABC13 reported.
Police originally took Elizabeth Wolf into custody on May 19 after authorities said she got into an argument with the child’s mother and tried to drown the child in an apartment pool.
However, she posted $40,000 bail and authorities released her from jail.
During a recent court appearance, a judge called the original bail of $40,000 insufficient and increased it 25-times. Deputies hauled Wolf back into jail and investigators are now looking at the incident as a hate crime.
The mother who has not been identified publicly accused Wolf of calling the Muslim and Palestinian American un-American. She also questioned where she was from.
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“We are seeing a new level of bigotry here where a person deeply believes they get to decide, based on religion, spoken language, and country of origin, whose kids deserve to stay alive and whose don’t,” Shaimaa Zayan of the Council on Islamic American Relations said to Global News.
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