NEW JERSEY
Observer-Tribune
By PHIL GARBER Managing Editor
MENDHAM – The twice-vandalized memorial to child victims of clergy sex abuse erected 11 years ago in the garden of St. Joseph Church has been partly destroyed again.
This time, the church pastor said the memorial has disintegrated because the materials could not withstand last winter’s cold temperatures.
But the sculptor who made the memorial said the materials normally withstand varying extremes of weather and temperatures.
The memorial initially built in 2004 included a 400 pound black basalt millstone. It was vandalized in 2011, later rebuilt and two figures of a boy and girl were added.
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