Police seek leads in hate crime at Maywood Catholic Church
Vandals ransacked a Catholic Church in Maywood on Monday in an incident that police are classifying as a hate crime.
The vandals broke into the Santa Rosa de Lima Church, where they defecated in an auditorium, scrawled "666" in the kitchen and stuck a knife in a painting of the Virgin Mary, the Maywood-Cudahy Police Department said.
"The vandalism was of a heinous nature, and in fact, consistent with a hate crime," the department said in a news release.
The church is in the 4400 block of West 60th Street. No other details were available.
Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at (323) 562-5005.
-- Robert J. Lopez
Photo: Vandalized painting of the Virgin Mary. Credit: Maywood-Cudahy Police Department
EDITOR'S PICKS:
"The vandalism was of a heinous nature". Are you kidding? What's heinous is the Catholic Church protecting it's own at the expense of the children abused by priests.
I'm not condoning the vandalism, but let's keep things in perspective!
Posted by: HiVeloCT | May 25, 2010 at 08:33 AM
let us keep this in perspective then...this is not about the Catholic Church as an institution, it is about a small community parish that was vandalized
you cannot redirect attention from this disrespectful act to a broader issue that this parish has not been involved with...that, my friend, is a fallacy
I would agree that heinous might be the wrong word, maybe disrespectful, ignorant, or adolescent
Posted by: Maywood citizen | May 25, 2010 at 01:12 PM
The cult of child rapists think some petty vandalism is a hate crime? The nerve of these pukes.
Posted by: ZombieSlapper | June 02, 2010 at 05:44 AM
The commenters here would say that it's okay to vandalize a hispanic catholic church -- hating people that they hate is not a "hate crime" It is ironic that homosexuals hate the church because of its stand against gay marriage. they always bring out scandals and paedophilia while never mentioning issues in Public schools or other religious organization -- or even the California school system. Yet who commits "institutional" paedophilia? Statistics show homosexuals do.
Posted by: mc | June 23, 2010 at 08:39 AM