The Justice Department is pursuing no jail time for a transgender person who admitted to assaulting a church worker, vandalizing a Catholic church with profane graffiti, smashing its glass, and damaging a statute of the Virgin Mary in Washington state last June.
In the plea agreement for Maeve Nota, 31, the DOJ recommended zero jail time for the perpetrator, according to a Fox News Digital report.
As CBN News reported in June 2022, Nota was arrested after destroying one entrance to a building, shattering a door in the parish hall, and spray-painting more than a dozen places on walls throughout the church’s campus, messages too profane to print here.
In addition, Nota attacked a church employee and hit a police car with a backpack crammed full of paint cans.
Nota was captured on video repeatedly throwing a rock at a glass door inside a pastoral office, before kicking and punching in the glass, KCPQ-TV reported at the time.
The outlet also reported a woman who was praying inside the building tried to talk to the trans man, before locking herself inside as the attacker continued to spray-paint the rock wall outside the building.
The suspect later surrendered to police, but not before assaulting a church worker and swinging his backpack full of paint cans, and hitting a police car with it.
Bellevue Police Captain Darryl McKinney told KCPQ at the time that the damage would fall under a hate crime statute.
The way the DOJ treated Nota is much different than the aggressive tactics and charges it used against pro-life activist Mark Houck. He had been in a minor altercation with a Planned Parenthood volunteer who was harassing Houck’s little boy near a Philadelphia abortion clinic last year.
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