5 minutes agoVandals hammer out Pope's statues and Mother Teresa outside New York church
Periskopi(2 years ago)
(2 years ago)Police in New York said yesterday they arrested a vandal that had hammered the faces of Mother Teresa's statues and a pope yesterday outside a church in Brooklyn, New York. Thirty-year-old Randy Maldonado Avila, not by hammering the statues but by beating [...]
Thirty-year-old Randy Maldonado Avila, not just who had hammered the statues but then hit the doors of St. Dominic in Bensonhurst, and had continued the series of vandalism by destroying a sign at a bus stop, police further announced.
Maldonado Avila, from the Flatbush area, had hit statues of Mother Teresa and Pope John XXIII leaving the second faceless and without a hand, as seen in images posted by the church.
The reasons for the anger of 30 - year - old church figures are unknown, but Maldonado Avila had no criminal precedent.
He was arrested about 15 minutes after devastating acts and was charged with delinquency, possession of a cold weapon, according to the New York police.
Local media said he could be charged with vandalism either, or with “hate crimes”.
