From The Lexington Herald-Leader:
A Western Kentucky man pleaded guilty this week to a federal charge of damaging religious property after admitting to using an ax to chop off the heads of a statue that depicted Jesus and Mary.
Marley R. Taylor, 27, of Hopkinsville, said he destroyed the Italian-sculpted statue, which depicted the Christian biblical figure Mary holding baby Jesus, because he thought people prayed to them as an “act of worship.”