The Rockland County postal worker arrested for violently shoving a 4-year-old Jewish boy was slapped with fresh charges Saturday — as police finally revealed his name following public outrage.
Gabriel Stan, 39, was charged with felony second-degree attempted assault a day after he was hit with misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a child and third-degree attempted assault for the heartless, caught-on-video attack in a predominantly Jewish Ramapo neighborhood, police told CBS New York.
Home surveillance footage showed the young Orthodox Jewish boy approaching a community mailbox that the postal worker, who had his back turned, was filling.
When the boy got close to the mailbox, Stan turned around and launched at him, delivering a two-handed push that sent the boy falling to the ground on his back.
The force also knocked off his yarmulke, video first reported by The Monsey Scoop showed.
The boy then jumped up, collected his religious garment, and hurried back to a group of friends nearby.
The 4-year-old was not physically hurt and police have not yet deemed the incident a hate crime.
Stan, a Stony Point resident, was arrested Thursday, released on his own recognizance and processed in Ramapo Town Justice Court.
The Ramapo Police Department initially failed to reveal the postal worker’s identity, prompting outraged New Yorkers to express their fury on social media.
The department said it “very rarely” names suspects in news releases.
“Why are you hiding his name,” Facebook user JP Gale said in a Facebook comment Friday. “You’re going out of your way to protect the identity of a man who assaulted a child, and I think we can all guess why.”
“We need this man’s name. He is a danger,” Frienda Bill demanded in another comment on the platform.
“Where is this person’s name and the news conference? He assaulted a child,” Melissa Alpegiani Fogarty asked in a Facebook comment.
The United States Post Office declined comment Saturday when asked if the mail carrier was still on the job and would not comment on the video of the shove.
The Ramapo Town Justice Court did not respond to a request for comment.
Stan is due back in court at an unspecified date.
