Bigot burns a teenage girl’s eyes with liquid in an Ozone Park hate crime: cops

Detectives need the public’s help in finding a man who threw liquid at a 13-year-old girl’s face and burned her in Ozone Park on Tuesday afternoon in an assault now being investigated as a hate crime.

Law enforcement sources said the incident occurred at 3:25 p.m. on Oct. 24 after the victim departed a Q10 bus at the corner of Lefferts Boulevard and 101st Avenue.

Seconds later, she was approached by the perpetrator, whom police described as a bald black man in his 30s with a dark complexion and wearing a red shirt, a dark hooded sweatshirt, royal blue pants and tan-and-brown boots.

Authorities said the man threw an unidentified liquid at the victim’s face, then made an anti-white remark at the girl. The victim managed to take a cell phone picture of the suspect before he fled on foot northbound on Lefferts Boulevard toward 97th Avenue.

Officers from the 102nd Precinct and EMS units responded to the scene. Paramedics brought the girl to Jamaica Hospital, where she was treated for burns to her eyes and later released.

The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the assault. Police have released video footage of the suspect taken by a nearby security camera.

Anyone with information regarding the incident is urged to call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA), visit their website or send a text message to 274637 (CRIMES), then enter TIP577. All calls and messages are kept confidential.