SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ — A South Brunswick family remains shaken this week after their 11-year-old son said he was told by an adult man at a local playground to "move your a** out of this country, you are a (expletive) Indian coming to our country to steal our jobs and money."

Update: South Brunswick police say they identified the man who allegedly made the comments to the boy, and he denied saying it. The mother of the child stands by her son, saying he is not a liar. Read the update to this story: South Brunswick: Man Denies Bias Remark To Boy; Mom Stands By Son The Zuriki family has lived in South Brunswick for the past ten years. They live in the Kendall Park section of town and the boy is a sixth grade student at Crossroads South Middle School.

Tuesday was the first time they've ever experienced this kind of racism, the boy's mother, Racha Zeini, 37, told Patch.

"I was really shocked when (my son) came home and told me," Zeini said in a phone interview Thursday. "This is South Brunswick, a very diverse community. My kids have gone to all the public schools here for years and never had any issue. This is the first time I've heard of something like this happening here."

"This incident is totally inconsistent with the fabric of our community," said South Brunswick Police Chief Raymond Hayducka in a statement. "We have increased directed patrols of the park and detectives are following up to see if we can identify the man."

The afternoon of Tuesday, Oct. 1 was fairly mundane, the boy's mother recalled. Her children were home as public schools were closed for a religious holiday. At about 3 p.m. her 11-year-old son told her he was going to meet his friends at the Cambridge Elementary School playground, which is near their home.

"He rode his bike there. I was surprised when he came back just 15 minutes later and was very quiet and not talkative. He just went into his room," she said.

The boy refused to tell his mother what was wrong. But he confided in his older sister, a teenager. He told her that his friends weren't there but he saw a family of four at the playground, a mother, father and two elementary-aged kids. He said the father came up to him and said, "Move your (expletive) a** out of this country, you are a (expletive) Indian coming to our country to steal our jobs and money."

Zeini said her daughter, a high school student, told her what happened. "I was shocked. Of course this is not acceptable," she said. "But I wanted to give this man the benefit of the doubt. I asked my son if he had any interaction with him beforehand or had said anything to provoke this. He said no. I know my son. He doesn't lie."