The families are still facing heartbreak instead of healing.

It's a playground. There should be some place in the area where a closed circuit camera can be installed.

By Deborah Straszheim
Publication: The Day

Published May 08. 2014 4:00AM

Mystic — The 50-pound vinyl peace sign (click here) that marked the entrance of the new playground built in memory of Grace McDonnell, one of the 20 first-graders who died in the December 2012 shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, was stolen Tuesday.

Then someone claiming to have taken the sign called McDonnell's mother and told her the sign was gone, said William Lavin, founder of the "Where Angels Play Foundation," which is building playgrounds to commemorate each of the 20 children and six adults killed at the school.


"There's still a lot of ignorance and evil out there that someone could do something like that," Lavin said Wednesday.


He said the caller was a man who claimed the shooting at Sandy Hook was a hoax....