Camp Kasho Vandelized

Recordonline: Swan Lake - Police say teenagers scrawled a hateful name in red and green spray paint inside the main building of an Orthodox Jewish bungalow on Mount Hope Road.On walls in the front room at Camp Kasho, overlooking boxes of matzo meal crushed on the floor and a sticker advising people to keep their children off the Internet, was the name "Hitler" in letters a foot high.The vandals also spray-painted their names, nicknames and initials and splashed cans of paint around a room.Police lodged hate crime charges against three teenagers from neighboring Abbott House, a home for neglected, abused, developmentally disabled or otherwise homeless kids. Charged with third-degree burglary, second-degree criminal mischief as hate crimes and first-degree aggravated harassment, felonies, were Nathaniel Jones, 16, and Harry Singleton Jr., 16, both of the Bronx, and a 15-year-old boy from Newburgh."It's an ongoing thing (vandalism), the past four years," Solomon Lebowitz, the assistant director at Camp Kasho, said. A golf cart was stolen once. Broken windows are a constant. And once before, someone spray-painted a swastika.Sullivan County Sheriff Michael Schiff said a camp employee came to the site to handle the delivery of trusses for a new building. The man saw the teenagers flee into the woods, discovered the break-in and vandalism and called 911.Sheriff's Cpl. Paul Slavik arrived within minutes. When he heard the employee's story, he called for a police dog to do a track through the woods. Slavik spoke to a supervisor at Abbott House and learned that the three boys had just returned. Slavik said that after initial denials, Singleton admitted to his and the other boys' involvement.The boys were being held last night pending arraignment.