STARK COUNTY, Ohio — Mourning Ohio parents are looking for answers after a memorial site in Quail Hollow Park dedicated to their late daughter was discovered to be vandalized.
Dan and Polly Moss lost their 24-year-old daughter Mallory to a car accident in Columbus, Ohio, in May 2022.
To honor their daughter’s memory the Canton Repository says the couple purchased a memorial bench from the Stark Parks and had a Dogwood tree planted next to it on the first anniversary of Mallory’s death.
The family also added potted plants with placed brightly colored stones with positive messages from family and friends.
It was a message on one of the stones that Polly Moss tells Canton Repository she believes triggered the vandalism, including the theft of the potted plants.
Moss says that one of Mallory’s friends requested the parents to place a stone with ‘BLM’ (Black Lives Matter) on their behalf.
It was soon after that the Canton Repository reported the tree was defaced with MAGA graffiti, and the BLM rock was tossed into the nearby woods.