The following attacks on crèches have come to our attention:
Figures from nativity scenes were stolen or vandalized in
Tucson, Arizona
Millbrae, California
Mission Viejo, California
Moorpark, California
San Francisco, California
Naugatuck, Connecticut
Waterbury, Connecticut (Jesus was taken, but one of the arms was left behind)
Fort Walton Beach, Florida
Des Moines, Iowa
Sioux City, Iowa
Ammon, Idaho
Chicago, Illinois (32 figures of baby Jesus were nabbed — they were later dumped on the lawn of a Catholic church)
Jackson County, Illinois (two incidents)
Tinley Park, Illinois
Floyd County, Indiana
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Montgomery County, Indiana
Wichita, Kansas
Hardin, Kentucky
Lafayette, Louisiana (two incidents)
Youngsville, Louisiana
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Southborough, Massachusetts
Winthrop, Maine
Portage Township, Michigan
Fayettville, North Carolina
New Bern, North Carolina
Columbus, Nebraska (12 baby Jesus figures were stolen in one day); Plaistow, NH; Dover, OH; Utica, Ohio (three incidents)
Artemis, Pennsylvania
Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Greenfield, Pennsylvania
Hilton Head, South Carolina
Halom City, Texas
Santa Fe, Texas
Salt Lake City, Utah
Winfield, West Virginia
West Allis, Wisconsin
Some of these attacks were clearly motivated by malice. The baby Jesus figure stolen in Plaistow, New Hampshire was later returned, having been defiled by a pair of devil horns. The hooligan who stole the manger from Southborough, Massachusetts left the surrounding secular decorations standing. In Sioux Falls, South Dakota, someone crushed the face of the statue of Jesus. What's worse, the creep in Des Moines, Iowa burned Jesus' face, doused the statue with red nail polish, and twisted the electrical cord around its neck. The incident in Kansas occurred outside the clinic of late-term abortionist George Tiller. After a member of a pro-life group placed the crèche on a public strip of land, one of Tiller's employees deemed it "offensive" and moved it behind a fence on the clinic's property where it would no longer be visible.
