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CV NEWS FEED // An investigation is ongoing after an unidentified suspect was caught on surveillance video vandalizing a statue belonging to a Catholic church in Queens over the weekend.
According to a local July 1 ABC 7 report, footage shows the man coming out of a taxi and approaching the statue at Holy Family Parish at approximately 5:30 a.m. June 30 and then attacking the statue representing St. Joseph, Mary, and the child Jesus with one of his shoes. The video shows the man striking the statue of Jesus repeatedly until the head breaks off the statue.
According to a Facebook post following the incident, the Holy Family statue has been outside the parish in Flushing, a neighborhood of Queens, for 42 years.
Local authorities are currently trying to locate the assailant, whose motives remain unknown. The report also states that a similar attack took place at the parish last year, when someone ripped a statue representing an angel from its pedestal.
According to CatholicVote’s violence tracker, there have been over 400 attacks on US Catholic churches since May 2020.
