Some sad news for Catholics on Staten Island: A statue outside the Sacred Heart Church has been desecrated. The statue of the Son of God was found on All Saints’ Day with its hands cut off.
Shortly after, a parishioner found a statue of St. Francis nearby had been decapitated.
The St. Francis statue has been repaired but the church is still trying to fix the more than 100-year-old Christ statue outside the Sacred Heart Church.
The NYPD is investigating the incidents; however, surveillance cameras were not positioned near the statues.
Police are still looking for the suspect who desecrated a statue of Mary in a similar way last week in Queens.
The more-than-a-century-old statue at St. Andrew Avellino Church in Flushing was found missing a right hand and a damaged left one.
Deacon James Cowan, of Sacred Heart Church, spoke to Currents News about his, and the church’s, reaction to the crime.