Rana Elasmar, a mother of 4, was 38 weeks pregnant when the assault occurred ultimate November, in keeping with CNN affiliate Nine News. She was sitting in a Sydney cafe, carrying a hijab, when Stipe Lozina approached her desk.
After briefly chatting together with her, Lozina punched Elasmar quite a few situations and stomped on her head when she fell to the underside. Elasmar’s friends and totally different patrons leapt from their seats to restrain him.
Lozina allegedly made a racist remark sooner than the unprovoked assault, according to Nine News. Elasmar knowledgeable 9 Data that she had been focused on defending her unborn baby.
She suffered minor accidents throughout the assault and her son was unharmed.
“For many who actually really feel the appropriate to bodily or verbally abuse any one that appears to be a bit completely totally different than you, then Australia’s not the appropriate nation for you,” she knowledgeable reporters open air courtroom docket ultimate month.
Months after the assault, Elasmar was nonetheless experiencing the bodily and psychological outcomes, her sister knowledgeable CNN affiliate Seven News in June.
Lozina pleaded accountable to assault, nevertheless he claimed it was not an Islamophobic or racist assault. “I don’t hate them, nevertheless I don’t get along with them. I’ve acquired no enterprise with them,” Lozina acknowledged in courtroom docket, according to Nine News.
On Thursday, he was sentenced to a most three years in jail, with a non-parole interval of two years.
