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Alleged Vandal Faces Hate Crime Charge After Major Damage to Denver's Catholic Cathedral
Catholic News Agency ^ | 1/13/22 | Kevin J. Jones

Posted on 01/16/2022 6:38:24 PM PST by marshmallow

A 26-year-old woman has turned herself in on two charges related to some $10,000 in vandalism damage to Denver’s Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception.

Madeline Ann Cramer faces one charge of criminal mischief and another of a bias-motivated crime in connection with an Oct. 10 incident, the Denver District Attorney’s Office said Jan. 13. Both the cathedral building itself and nearby statues were “spray painted with numerous specific messages consistent with anti-Christian bias,” said District Attorney Beth McCann.

Cramer had fled to Oregon but turned herself in to law enforcement Jan. 12. According to social media video posts, she says she was baptized a Catholic but now identifies as a satanist and opposes Catholic stands against abortion.

News photos of the vandalism showed slogans such as “Satan Lives Here,” “White Supremacists,” and “Child Rapists, LOL”, as well as swastikas, written in bright red spray paint on the outside of the cathedral building, sidewalks, and on the base of a statue of St. John Paul II. The pope had visited the cathedral during 1993 World Youth Day.

The graffiti was cleaned off with the help of parishioners and other volunteers.

Father Sam Morehead, rector of the cathedral, said Oct. 11 that the assailant seemed to have some “deep personal wounds and grievances” against God and the Church.

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1 posted on 01/16/2022 6:38:24 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Why can’t she just hang out at some local
Wicken sanctuary?


2 posted on 01/16/2022 6:41:11 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: marshmallow
photos of the vandalism showed slogans such as “Satan Lives Here,” “White Supremacists,” and “Child Rapists, LOL”, as well as swastikas

Which host of "The View" was involved in this?

3 posted on 01/16/2022 6:42:22 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: marshmallow
The admitted perpetrator.


4 posted on 01/16/2022 6:55:43 PM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia! )
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Based on the photo she was probably just hangry


5 posted on 01/16/2022 7:05:11 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: fidelis

My guesses here: This young gal is fat, lonely and bitter about being lonely. She takes a delight in trying to ruin or damage the serene expressions of the faithful when they talk about God. She is angry at God for ‘making’ her life an unhappy one.


6 posted on 01/16/2022 7:05:39 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

I thought hate crimes were when you defaced a mosque.


7 posted on 01/16/2022 7:07:18 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: lee martell

I would agree with that. The fact that she reportedly identifies as a satanist would provide additional hateful motivation and demonic prompting.


8 posted on 01/16/2022 7:14:47 PM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia! )
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To: fidelis

She has handed herself into the police. She wants full credit
notoriety and perverse “glory” for her crimes. she is ready for her Close Ups. She is expecting to receive a truck load of attention.

This puts the local police in a bit of a pickle. They were likely hoping to find no one, at least not right away. Now, they will be forced to react to this person who has damaged property of the Catholic Church.

Most Christian churches and parishes are not used to standing up for themselves and pushing back against religious intolerance. Forgive, but do not forget.
This is not something one should ever turn the other cheek about. Not in this day and age where similar abuse happens frequently, not just on the night before Halloween as it used to be.


9 posted on 01/16/2022 7:27:39 PM PST by lee martell
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To: marshmallow

Send it back to its father. Kill it.


10 posted on 01/16/2022 7:29:34 PM PST by sitetest (Professional patient. No longer mostly dead. Again. It's getting to be a habit.)
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To: lee martell

Agreed. You can have love and forgiveness in your heart against those who sin against you, as Christ demands, but at the same time prosecute crimes to the full extent of the law. The two are not mutually exclusive.


11 posted on 01/16/2022 7:51:03 PM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia! )
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

If she’s a Satanist and Satan lives there why would she attack her temple?


12 posted on 01/16/2022 8:08:15 PM PST by jarwulf
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To: marshmallow
Only the most *retarded* vandals try and fail several times to spray paint swastikas. Whenever you see such graffiti you should automatically think "mouth breather."


13 posted on 01/16/2022 8:39:07 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (META - Make Everything Trump Again)
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