{"id":162452,"date":"2026-02-03T20:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/162452\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T20:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:53:09","slug":"virgin-mary-statue-decapitated-at-long-beach-catholic-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/162452\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Mary statue decapitated at Long Beach Catholic school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml71dvd6001c01pc3ausvpha@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Community members are pitching in to restore Holy Innocents School, a Catholic school in Long Beach that was vandalized over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml71kzns0012357vrc77knvq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">As of Tuesday morning, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/restoring-holy-innocents-after-vandalism\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe campaign<\/a> for the school raised over $87,500.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml71qrly0020357vr0diwgfn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Want to get caught up on what&#8217;s happening in SoCal every weekday afternoon? <a href=\"https:\/\/link.chtbl.com\/fHPneL-D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click to follow The L.A. Local<\/a> wherever you get podcasts.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml71kzr20013357vm1o7pm30@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Police responded to the school on Monday morning. Officers say it appears a group of people entered the school hall. A life-size statue of the Virgin Mary was decapitated, and parts of a campus sound system were found piled by the door.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml71kzui0014357vsqc16yv6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">\u201cWe feel violated,&#8221; Cyril Cruz, the school\u2019s principal, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/holy-innocents-catholic-school-long-beach-burglars-vandalized\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS L.A.<\/a> &#8220;I feel just really bad for our families, for our scholars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml71kzxx0015357veyiqihkb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Police have collected fingerprints, shoe prints, and blood samples as part of their investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml71l01l0016357vm2j73m6h@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Follow KNX News 97.1 FM<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KNXnews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/knxnews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Facebook<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/knxnews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@knxnews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> TikTok<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n          Featured Image Photo Credit: Getty Images\n        <\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Community members are pitching in to restore Holy Innocents School, a Catholic school in Long Beach that was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-162452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}