A Nassau jury returned a split verdict on Tuesday in the trial of a Floral Park father accused of rushing onto the field of a youth league soccer match and striking an 11-year-old girl in the face after she collided with another player from his daughter’s team.

The jury took an hour and a half to acquit Michael Stallone, a landscaper, of the top charge of third-degree misdemeanor assault.

They convicted him of endangering the welfare of a child.

"I think they split the baby," defense attorney Marc Gann said. "It doesn't really shock me. I knew the harder of the charges to kind of disprove would be the endangering welfare of a child, because it's kind of an amorphous charge."

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