Charles Jeffrey Short of South Carolina was arrested by Charleston Police after he beheaded a Jesus statue because he claims was in violation of the Ten Commandments.

"I think I used a sledge hammer to strike the statue about six or seven times, because the second or first commandment states to not make an image of a male or female to be on display to the public," said Short according to a WCSC report.

The 38-year-old criminal is referring to the second commandment that can be found in both in the Bible and the Torah (aka the Pentateuch), where the verse talks about the issue of worshipping graven images.

"You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below," according to Exodus 20:4 and also Deuteronomy 5:8 (New International Version).

Short was charged with malicious injury to real property after an officer from Charleston Police Department searched his backpack and discovered the sledgehammer; he used it to decapitate the statue from the Sacred Heart Catholic church at approximately 5:45 am on Sunday.

In the official police report, the 6 foot statue's head was utterly "demolished off the statue."

According to WCSC, the aforementioned Catholic Church proudly displayed their Jesus Christ sculpture for the past two decades.

The police department are also investigating if Short was also responsible for another recent act of vandalism discovered June 13. In this case, a statue of Jesus and of a small child were decapitated and without hands.