Former St. Agnes Church vandalized

St. Agnes parishioners said they were devastated by the current conditions of their former Catholic church in the Southern Dayton View neighborhood calling the vandalized building a disgrace.

St. Agnes parishioners said they were devastated by the current conditions of their former Catholic church in the Southern Dayton View neighborhood calling the vandalized building a disgrace.

St. Agnes parishioners said they were devastated by the current conditions of their former Catholic church in the Southern Dayton View neighborhood calling the vandalized building a disgrace.

News Center 7’s Mike Campbell reported exterior windows were missing, doors were boarded up and walls showed their age. Inside the former church, fixtures were taken, doors were missing and obscenities were on the walls.

A YouTube video tour of the inside of the church shows the facility now in ruins — a hollow shell of its once inspirational purpose.

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“I saw the video, I saw the devastation,” said Pam Jeffers, a former St. Agnes parishioner and volunteer. “… To say the least, it made me sick … I just find it sad that no one seems to care about the place anymore.”

The archdiocese of Cincinnati closed St. Agnes, because of consolidations, and sold the property in 2000. There’s been a couple owners since then. Montgomery county property records show the archdiocese sold the church to St Mary’s development corporation, before passing it on to an education corporation and then in 2007, to the Institute of Charter School Management and Resources – the parent company of Richard Allen Charter School.

“It seems desecrated although it’s not a church anymore,” Jeffers said.

Current Montgomery county property records indicate that the owners of this property are now more than $200,000 behind in past-due taxes and it’s unclear what the future of this property will be.

The Institute of Charter School Management and Resources did not respond to News Center 7 questions about the condition and future of the property.

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