PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. – Households mentioned they really feel violated after a Putnam County woman was arrested for stealing items from gravesites.
Katherine Taylor, 61, was charged with two counts of felony mischief for damaging property and eradicating gadgets from graves.
Nadine Cribbs, who didn’t need her face proven, identified gadgets the Putnam County Sheriff’s Workplace returned to her this week.
They have been taken from her mother, whom she’s named after and her stepdad’s gravesites within the Etoniah Cemetery.
“Again in December of 23, I put my mother out right here, after which inside 4 months of getting her right here, stuff began going lacking,” Cribbs mentioned. “Dropping my momma was the toughest factor on me, and coming right here offers me peace.”
She mentioned that peace stored getting stripped away each time one thing went lacking from the resting place for the individuals she liked.
“It was a distinct sort of ache that I don’t know I can’t describe, what it was however yeah, it simply devastates you that somebody would come and do this,” Cribbs mentioned.
That’s why she put in a digicam and caught a lady who the Putnam County Sheriff’s Workplace recognized as Taylor stealing gadgets from a gravesite.
Again in 2020, she was arrested for the same incident at Oak Hill Cemetery when she was caught stealing from the gravesite of 13-year-old Tanner Wall. She pleaded responsible to petty theft and served six months of probation.
News4JAX spoke with Wall’s mother and father in 2020 after he died from a brain-eating amoeba.
Alicia Whitehill, his mom, mentioned understanding Taylor stole from one other household shouldn’t be proper.
“It’s heartbreaking,” Whitehill mentioned. “I do know what it appears like. Once I talked to her the final time she did it, I caught her popping out of the cemetery, and he or she promised that she would by no means do that once more.”
Whitehill and Cribbs mentioned they don’t need one other household to undergo what they went via.
“None of us deserves to should have all that executed to us. It’s not proper and he or she must be punished,” Cribbs mentioned.
It’s why Cribbs mentioned if anybody is lacking something from the Etoniah Cemetery, contact the sheriff’s workplace with pictures of the lacking gadgets.
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