Teen 14 charged with desecration of a venerated object for posting Facebook pictures of a simulated sex act with a Jesus statue

 

                                                                      

 A Pennsylvania teen who posted pictures of himself with a Jesus statue was charged with desecration of a venerated object.

The 14-year-old was charged Tuesday under a rarely-enforced 1972 law making it a misdemeanor to defile a "venerated object" after pictures posted online depicted him apparently mimicking a sex act with a Jesus statue near his home in Everett.

The pictures were posted in July, but the misdemeanor charges were not filed until this week.