Wednesday, March 05, 2008
INCIDENTS OF SATANIC GRAFFITI VANDALISM GROWING
Today in the news are the following incidents:
TAMPA - Members of the Tampa Scottish Rite Masonic Center on Memorial Highway found quite a mess when they arrived Tuesday morning.
Red spray-painted pentagrams and satanic messages were scrawled across their building, monuments and even one of their vans. Vandals left graffiti everywhere...
The group's leader...says vandals also struck last year...
Down the road, Linda Sullivan and her co-workers at the Golden Corral found similar messages scrawled all over their restaurant.
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LIVE OAK Vandals hopped a school fence and wrote Satanic messages in the quad of a private religious school in Live Oak during the weekend, the Sheriff's Office reported.
The hateful graffiti at Virgil Hauselt Memorial Christian School on the 400 block of Capitola Road were discovered just before 8 a.m. Saturday...
All together, there were 12 incidents of hate-related graffiti in an eight-month span, but no arrests were made.
The Seventh-day Adventist school, serves about 120 preschool through eighth-grade students. Lawrence said the school had been targeted by vandals in the past, but that it's been several years...
He and a school maintenance employee cleaned up chalk Saturday so a church group that uses the facility for a Sunday morning service would not encounter it...
In February 2006, vandals using specially crafted stencils targeted Holy Cross, Messiah Lutheran, High Street Community, First Congregational and Calvary Episcopalian. Also struck was the Agnus Dei Christian bookstore on Cedar Street and the Santa Cruz Mission Adobe park, which is near Holy Cross.
Vandals hit Holy Cross again that June when they spray-painted Satanic messages on the church facade and stairs...
