This morning Staff at Holy innocents Catholic School in Long Beach, CA arrived to discover the school assembly hall, chapel, and classrooms had been broken into and desecrated. What appears to have been multiple perpetrators smashed statues and ruined images of our Lady, other statues as well, and threw the tabernacle down. A call was made at 7:00 AM local time to Law Enforcement who have yet to arrive at the time of this post. The FBI was also contacted. The Bishop is on site now with the staff assessing the situation as they wait for law enforcement. Bishop, Mark Trudeau said that it is the worst case of vandalism that he's ever seen in the region.
We are still waiting to hear if the perpetrators stole the blessed sacrament since interaction with the crime scene is forbidden until after Law Enforcement arrives.
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About Holy Innocents Catholic School (from their website):
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