3 arrested in church vandalism, another arrest anticipated

Quad City Times ^ | September 4, 2008 | Ann McGlynn

[Aliska]

UPDATED: Three people are accused in connection with a vandalism spree at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church and School in Davenport that left dozens of broken windows, a damaged statue of the Virgin Mary and spray-painted vulgarities

[Aliska]

I haven't read the entire article or comments yet but outraged.

[iowamark]

[Aliska]

The church will probably pray for them and forgive them. Thanks for adding the pics, didn't feel like it, that Julien Hayes lives a block or so from the church.

I'm glad they were caught. I did skim over the comments. Most of the community is outraged, but there were the few usual snarky ones that are totally irrelevant to what happened here.

This looks like the very dark side at work here; there may be more to it than is now known and being reported.

[PGR88]

Stephanie E. Wiegel
Julien Hayes
Ryan J. Gertz

You owe God something now.

[NRA1995]

Flog them all till they’re nothing but bloody tissue and them give ‘em a salt water washdown (they probably need baths anyway).

[Salvation]

Pray for the people of this parish as well as those who did the dameage.

[vladimir998]

I know they’re “iinocent until proven guilty” but those pictures...

well, they just seem to be...fitting.

[Aliska]

Owe God something now

What do you mean?

Pray for the people of this parish as well as those who did the dameage.

By all means.

[Aliska]

Oh, I got it. Sorry. I thought you meant me. I owe Him a lot, too.

[iowamark]

This looks like the very dark side at work here

Undoubdtedly. First Methodist Church in Burlington Iowa was burned by a devil worshipper last year:

These poor folks look as though they may have similar issues:
Davenport arrestees:

[Aliska]

I don't know if they were devil worshippers but something led them to do what they did; if any more comes out about it will post an update. On 10:00 news, 57? windows in the school broken, church doors broken, it's all boarded up, looked eerie on tv, crime scene tape. A fourth suspect to be arrested.

I didn't know about the Methodist Church in Burlington, awful.

I thought I read or heard that a Catholic church in St. Paul had been vandalized by convention protestors but can't find anything on that.

Here's the steeple at St. Paul's in 2003. I was struck at the time by the dark cloud overshadowing it, cloned out the time stamp but don't know where that copy is. That was before all the sex scandals broke in the dioceses and nationwide.

[redgolum]

Forgot you were from around here also.

Heard this on the news. Just can’t understand the why.

There is a very dark undercurrent here in Davenport.

[Aliska]

Just talked to my gdaughter and she knows Ryan. She was at work and said he'd come into the store plus he was involved in kind of a rock Christian group she and her boyfriend are involved in, tried to get the name out of her but couldn't hear very well. Said he must have gone "anti-Christian". She did say one of them is Wiccan. She had to go because she's at work, but she called me first. She attended that church with me a couple times, then went atheist. She's a beautiful girl, just graduated from college and landed an excellent job. Her job on weekends is part time where she worked to help put herself through college.

I may FReepmail you when I have time.