Anglican Communion News Service - Digest News

Months after he oversaw a cleanup effort after a thief or thieves ransacked the offices of St. Agnes Anglican Church on Blue Hill Road, Archdeacon I. Ranfurly Brown on Friday became the victim of crime in a much more personal way, when his Blue Hill Heights home was broken into and emptied of valuable items while his teenage son slept.

“They took everything,” Father Brown told The Nassau Guardian yesterday. He said the break-in happened between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. Brown said the intruders entered through a window and took items like jewelry and electronics.

But he was grateful his son was unharmed, even though the thieves took his computer out his room as he slept.

“We have to get these politicians to be more honest about the reality of the intensity of this criminal attitude and element in this country,” said Father Brown when asked how he felt about the general crime problem, “not to talk about the high profile crimes only, but the crimes that are affecting the poor man, the middle man, the man who is struggling to provide for his family and somebody could just come in and take everything.”

But Brown indicated that he was determined to put this latest robbery in perspective.

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