12-year-old accused of hate crime after 2 Muslim students attacked at Connecticut school
A 12-year-old Connecticut student who police say assaulted two of her Muslim classmates has been accused of a hate crime in the attack.
A 12-year-old Connecticut student who police say assaulted two of her Muslim classmates has been accused of a hate crime in the attack.
Four seventh-grade students were involved in an altercation at Wallace Middle School in Waterbury, Connecticut, earlier this month, and two 13-year-old Muslim girls were injured, police said.
The injured teens regularly wear hijabs, the Connecticut chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CT) has said. Their relatives called for an investigation into the attack, arguing that the teens may have been targeted because of their religion, police said.
An exterior of the Wallace Middle School in Waterbury, Conn.NBC ConnecticutWaterbury Police on Friday said in a statement that authorities determined "the altercation was motivated by religion and/or ethnicity."
The 12-year-old was charged in juvenile court with intimidation based on bigotry and bias in the first and second degree, authorities said. A second student has been referred to a youth diversionary program rather than being arrested, police said.
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