Portales police incident reports state the boy charged with some of the criminal damage and criminal trespass told authorities he did not know the building was a worship center and
The people who love the center, now heartbroken and timid, travel to Clovis for worship, Benssouda said, adding they have suffered lasting emotional trauma.
Rights advocates are urging for a hate crime probe following repeated acts of vandalism at a mosque in New Mexico. So far, authorities are treating it as a regular investigation.