Girl, 6, Victim of Racially Motivated Assault Outside Livonia Theater

LIVONIA, Mich. (WJBK) - "I (said), 'Mommy, why did they do that?'" said six-year-old Saniya.  "And then mommy said we got to pray for them."

Saniya had been having a great day. She just saw "The Smurfs" at the AMC 20 in Livonia at Seven Mile and Haggerty. She was with her parents and walking to their car around 2:15 p.m. Tuesday afternoon when some guys in a faded red pickup truck drove by.

"I was looking at them and then they (threw) it in my face," Saniya said.

"She (yelled), 'Mommy,' and I look at her and her face is like covered with drink or some kind of liquid, soft drink or something like that," said Nesia, Saniya's mother.

Nesia said it must have been pop. It was sticky and stung little Saniya's eyes.

Her parents didn't know what had happened at first and then they spotted the pickup truck and the two or three men inside.

"While they were driving off they yelled out, 'You monkeys, you baboons,'" Nesia told FOX 2's Amy Lange. "Started making like monkey noises and sounds and just kind of drove off."

"I could not believe that something had happened like that," said Larry, Saniya's father.

Larry and Nesia were too shocked to get a license plate or a good description of the guys, but the vehicle was a faded red F-150 pickup truck with a black cover on the bed. These guys need to be caught.

"I've never experienced anything like this before," said Nesia. "She's six. I mean, it's 2011. Why does she even have to know that any of this is still something that goes on."

"People in previous years ... they didn't sit down and let things like this happen, so why should we?" said Larry.

"It's not right, and I don't want it to happen to anybody else again," Nesia said.

They contacted Livonia Police, who are asking anyone who may have seen that truck in the parking lot to contact them.