Judge on sending teen church vandal to prison: 'You asked for it, you got it'

BAY CITY, MI — A Bay City teen had a confident swagger as he walked into a courtroom to learn his penalty for smashing out a Catholic church’s windows. He shuffled out visibly dejected, learning he was heading not to jail for a few more months, but to prison.

Bay County Circuit Judge Harry P. Gill on Monday, May 20, sentenced 17-year-old Mathiew I. Mosher to 13 months to five years in prison, deviating from the sentencing guidelines of zero to 11 months.

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Police Search For Hastings Church Vandals

HASTINGS, Minn. (WCCO) -- Hastings Police are asking for help catching a vandal who spray painted graffiti of a possibly satanic nature on the side of a church.

Five-pointed stars inside circles and an upside down cross have now been washed off of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church’s brick walls and windows, but remnants of the graffiti remain.

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One week later, vandalized church unbowed

The Rev. Myrtle Daniels stepped up to the altar and switched on a reading light. Lucile Stewart-Mitchell took her seat at the piano, pressing open a hymn book. Karyn Fisher turned down music playing on an iPad.

"We've had a busy week," Daniels announced, facing a dozen congregants gathered Sunday morning at Mount Zion A.M.E. in Woolwich Township.

A week earlier, someone had rearranged the letters on the sign outside the tiny church, defacing it with a racist - and misspelled - message: No Nigers Welcome.

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