DOJ opening civil rights probe after Catholic school in California broken into, vandalized

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division announced connected Monday that it was launching an probe aft a Catholic schoolhouse successful Long Beach, California, was breached into and vandalized.

"The @CivilRights volition unfastened an probe into this atrocious crime," Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said connected X.

The Holy Innocents Catholic School was desecrated aft its assembly hall, chapel and classrooms were breached into, schoolhouse officials said.

Statues were smashed, images of Mary and different spiritual figures were destroyed and a photograph of the pope was knocked to the floor, images of the demolition show.

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The Holy Innocents Catholic School's assembly hall, chapel and classrooms were breached into and desecrated. (KTTV)

The vandalism besides includes defecation connected schoolhouse grounds, arsenic good arsenic partially consumed nutrient and drinks near behind, allowing authorities to behaviour DNA tests arsenic they hunt for suspects, according to Fox 11.

Local constabulary and the FBI person been contacted astir the incident.

Investigators said the religion suffered an estimated $100,000 successful damages from the break-in, Fox 11 reported.

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Investigators said the religion suffered an estimated $100,000 successful damages from the break-in. (KTTV)

"Statues smashed. Images of Our Lady destroyed. The tabernacle thrown to the floor. This is 1 of the worst cases of vandalism the section bishop has ever seen. Hatred of Christ lone destroys hearts. Pray for this school," Lila Rose, president of pro-life radical Live Action, wrote connected X.

Members of the religion said they were heartbroken aft learning astir the desecration.

"There are crucifixes. There are statues of the Blessed Mother. The tabernacle itself was taken and thrown connected the level and the Sacred House is there. That, to me, is much traumatizing than thing else. It's not conscionable the worldly things. It's the bosom down the things," Holy Innocents schoolhouse main Cyril Cruz told Fox 11, adding that "evil is retired there, truthful we request to pray."

Members of the religion said they were heartbroken aft learning astir the desecration. (KTTV)

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A GoFundMe launched to enactment the schoolhouse has raised astir $60,000 arsenic of Tuesday morning.

"What appears to person been aggregate perpetrators smashed statues and ruined images of our Lady, different statues arsenic well, and threw the tabernacle down … Bishop Mark Trudeau said that it is the worst lawsuit of vandalism that he's ever seen successful the region," the fundraiser reads.