A whole bunch of toys for youngsters in want stolen from Huntington Station warehouse
HUNTINGTON, Lengthy Island (WABC) — Police are looking for the thieves who stole lots of of toys meant to be vacation items for youngsters in want in Suffolk County.
The toys that weren’t stolen had been broken.
The group “Toys For Tots” is asking for assist so it may well proceed to hold out its vital mission.
Pallets of toys value $50,000, which had been being donated, had been ransacked over the weekend in Huntington.
Toys of Hope is a nonprofit group that collects donations for homeless and needy youngsters in New York and Lengthy Island.
The 600 toys had been ready to be picked up on Sunday after they realized what had occurred.
“It appeared like the whole lot was ransacked, vandalized, destroyed. I instantly might see that lots of of toys had been gone,” Founding father of Toys For Hope, Melissa Doktofsky stated.
The toys had been based mostly on personalised want lists created by every youngster with their case employee.
“We do not simply give random toys. We make it a really personalised expertise. And these things had been actually particular gadgets they thought they had been getting, that they had been getting from Santa and so they imagine within the magic of the vacation,” Doktofsky stated.
Whereas the thieves stole hope, they could not rob Lengthy Island of its Christmas spirit.
All through the day, a gentle stream of donors tried to assist change what was taken.
The nonprofit says they only need the toys returned earlier than Christmas and can forgive the suspect with no questions requested.
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