This church ain’t forgiving everyone who trespassed against them!
A sneaky squatter won’t stop breaking into Mormon church buildings around New York and setting up illicit campsites — where he has been captured in shocking photos hiding in the nooks and crevices of the facilities like a church mouse, a lawsuit claims.
Edwin A. Pabon “has a history of trespassing on Church property, and entering the Church’s locked, unoccupied buildings, storing his personal belongings in classrooms, using the kitchen and bathroom facilities and sleeping in the Church’s buildings,” according to the bizzare Manhattan Supreme Court filing,
The suit details how the 28-year-old has somehow snuck into several locked Mormon properties in Queens and Manhattan — showering, cooking and sleeping as he pleases, along with alleged photos of him caught in various parts of the chapel, including an attic crawl space.
Pabon, who was baptized into the church in 2007, was unable to be reached for comment.
How he gets inside is a mystery miracle, the church claims, only calling his entry into the locked buildings “unclear,” and that he keeps coming in, despite repeated efforts to deny his sanctuary.
Just five days after officials delivered Pabon a formal letter in January banning him from entering church properties — outside of Sunday services — he was allegedly discovered inside a Rego Park chapel “without authorization using the bathroom and showering,” court papers allege.
A week later, church officials claim they discovered him snoozing away inside a roof annex of the Rego Park chapel.
In February, he was found in the same chapel “sleeping on a desk in a Church office with personal items around him,” the suit says, also alleging he damaged heating units inside the church.
And last month, he was found — on two consecutive days, the lawsuit claims — sleeping on the chapel’s stage.
The suit also describes similar behavior at the Latter-Day Saints’ Yorkville church on “multiple occasions,” including in May where he was found in the clergy’s office.
Now the church is asking a judge to issue a permanent restraining order banning him from all properties owned by the Church of Latter-Day Saints.
“Despite repeated instructions to leave, he continues to return,” the lawsuit claims.
A lawyer for the church did not immediately respond for comment.
