PLANTATION, Fla. – A Tamarac man is facing charges after police accused him of attacking a 4-year-old girl at a Broward County Transit bus terminal Tuesday.
According to Plantation police, at around 8 p.m., 65-year-old Barry Steven Nockowitz approached the little girl as she and her mother were sitting on a bench at the Broward County West Regional Bus Terminal, located at 110 N. Pine Island Road.
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Police said Nockowitz grabbed the girl by the head, lifted her up off the ground, threw her at a concrete column, and then walked away.
The girl wasn’t seriously hurt and did not require hospitalization, a police report states.
According to the report, a Plantation police officer caught up with Nockowitz as he walked along Pine Island Road.
Nockowitz, whom the girl’s mother identified as the suspect, told the officer that he would “not stand for antisemitism in this country” and that he “grabbed the little girl and threw her,” the report states.
According to police, after the officer asked him where he was going, Nockowitz said “to find another kid.”
He faced charges of battery and child abuse without great bodily harm.
Jail records showed he was being held in the Broward Main Jail on an $11,000 bond as of early Wednesday afternoon.