New York woman arrested for spitting on 8-year-old Jewish boy

A woman in New York has been arrested for allegedly spitting on an eight-year-old Jewish boy.

A woman has been arrested by the New York City Police Department for allegedly spitting on an eight-year-old boy outside a Brooklyn synagogue last week.

The 21-year-old woman has been identified as Darling and has been charged with multiple counts including 'aggravated harassment as a hate crime, acting in a manner injurious to a child and menacing as a hate crime', the NYPD told CNN.

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The police said the incident happened last Friday when the woman approached three children outside the Kehal Tiferes Avrohom Ziditshov Orthodox synagogue. She allegedly shouted anti-Jewish statements before spitting on the child. The children were not injured, the police said.

Aryah Fried, the father of the children, told the media that the woman said, "Something along the lines of Hitler should have killed you all."

He said when his son responded saying that he would save his sister, the woman spat on his face and said, "We will kill you all, I know where you live, and we'll make sure to get you all next time."

A day after this incident, a man interrupted a Saturday's Shabbat service at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, and held four people hostage for several hours.