Police are searching for the vandal who beheaded a statue at a Catholic church in Queens over the weekend, but this is not the first time the church has been targeted.
Tuesday, July 2, 2024 3:23AMVideo shows a man get out of the taxi he was driving and walk toward the statue around 5:30 a.m. on Sunday."Then he goes to the front of the statue and starts hitting the face of St. Joseph, then attacks the Blessed Mother, then attacks the face of the Child Jesus," said pastor Father Sean Suckiel.This is the second time vandals have attacked statues at the church. Last year, someone ripped one, meant to represent an angel, from its pedestal.
The church will hire experts to find out if the statue can be repaired, or if it has to be replaced altogether. Either way it will cost thousands of dollars."We pray for the guy, and we want justice served, but we also have to forgive, and we know that he could not have been in the right state of mind to do this," Suckiel said.
The church's video is not terribly clear, but police are looking at much better video from their own cameras nearby and hope it can make out a license plate or medallion number on the taxi the man was driving.
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