Caught on camera: Vandal breaks into historic church, destroys property 3 times; takes nothing

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Caught on camera: Vandal breaks into historic church, destroys property 3 times; takes nothing
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The search is on for the vandal targeting a historic church, not just once, but several times and the vandal was caught on surveillance video.

Thou shalt not steal. It’s a message members of one East Mount Airy Church say has been missed on a serial vandal. Philadelphia police say the man was caught on video breaking into the Germantown Church of the Brethren on the 6600 block of Germantown Avenue three separate times in less than a month."They broke in right here. Three times they came in the same place," says Joseph Craddock showing FOX 29 the broken vestibule window.

"My whole attitude changed. I mean I now have to ask God to regroup me because I am angry and upset. Human emotion took over," says Craddock.Members, who just celebrated the Church’s 300th Anniversary, are saddened that whoever did this for whatever reason keeps targeting their church, seemingly without reason."They don’t care.

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