Pro-life activist Mark Houck spoke out after a jury acquitted him in the Planned Parenthood incident on Hannity. (Fox News)
President Biden’s Justice Department has offered what critics are calling a sweetheart plea deal to a vandal who admitted desecrating a Catholic church with profane graffiti, destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary, assaulting a church worker, and resisting upon arrest.
A plea agreement reviewed by Fox News Digital shows that the DOJ recommended zero jail time for the perp, Maeve Nota, a 31-year-old transgender individual who was ravaged in St. Louise Catholic Church in Bellevue, Washington, following the reversal of Roe v. Wade last June.
Nota contrasts sharply with the Biden administration’s previous strategy of throwing the book at pro-life protesters outside abortion clinics.
“It is very clear that the Biden Justice Department has politicized and weaponized the FACE Act to address pro-life Christians who pray outside abortion clinics like Mark Houck while turning a blind eye to violent felons who threaten and denigrating Catholic churches like Maeve Nota,” Mike Davis, founder of the Article III Project, told Fox News Digital.
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Maeve Nota broke a glass door in St. Louise Catholic Church in Bellevue, Washington. (Twitter)
“The Biden Justice Department tried to put Houck in prison for 11 years for defending his son while recommending no jail time for Nota after this trans terrorist ravaged a Catholic church, fought the police, assaulted a church employee, and scared the hell out of a little old lady praying,” Davis said.
Nota smashed two glass doors with rocks and painted the walls outside the church with messages that read, “rotten in your fake hell,” “kid groomers,” and “woman haters,” along with other messages.
A church staff member had their face painted while trying to drive Nota away.
When officers found Nota, police said he used a backpack full of spray paint cans to break into the police car before he got inside.
Nota appeared intoxicated at the time of the arrest and was said to be angry at the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe. v. Wade a week before the incident, investigators previously told KOMO News.
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President Biden’s DOJ charged Nota with a misdemeanor and is not recommending jail time. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo)
Shortly after the event, Police Capt. Darryl McKinney at FOX13 Seattle that $10,000 in damages is subject to hate crime law.
According to filings from early March, Biden’s Justice Department struck down the Note of vandalizing religious property, a misdemeanor that can carry up to a year in prison and $100,000 in fines.
A week later, however, a previously unreported plea agreement between the Justice Department, Nota, and his attorney indicated that they would not recommend prison time and three years of probation at the time of his sentencing in June 2.
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Door that Maeve Nota broke in St. Louise Catholic Church in Bellevue, Washington. (Twitter via Bellevue Police)
The Justice Department did not respond to a Fox News Digital inquiry on the recommendation.
Nota’s situation is quite different pro-life activist Mark Houckwhose encounter with a Planned Parenthood escort led to a Federal Bureau of Investigation raid on his home and the Biden administration wants him to face 11 years in prison.
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A jury acquitted Houck after he allegedly shoved a Planned Parenthood escort during an encounter outside the abortion clinic.
The Biden administration accused Houck of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which criminalizes the use of force with the intent to injure, intimidate and disrupt clinic workers.
Peter Hasson, Stephen Sorace and Maria Lencki of Fox News Digital contributed reporting.
