A woman wielding a crowbar smashed a display case (last) Wednesday at the Loveland, Colorado Museum, ripped out a piece of artwork that has been the center of growing controversy and shredded it into small pieces, witnesses said.

Kathleen Folden, 56, of Kalispell, Mont., was arrested shortly after the 4 p.m. incident and charged with felony criminal mischief.

A Longmont man who was among six people in the gallery pulled Folden away from the display, but not before she had smashed through a Plexiglas cover protecting the artwork and torn out a foot-long section, he said.

She then retreated to a corner of the gallery, where she ripped the work by San Francisco artist Enrique Chagoya to tiny shreds…

“She was saying, ‘How can you desecrate my Lord?’” said Mark Michels, the man who grabbed Folden. “She wanted to wreck the print, and that was it. After that, she was totally passive.”

The artwork, titled “The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals,” was contained in an 82-piece art collection compiled by Lyons printer Bud Shark, and some viewers say it depicts Jesus Christ engaged in oral sex…

(A visitor reported) “She was lifting the crowbar over her head, and smashing it down, yelling ‘Filth! Filth! Filth!’”

Folden was wearing a T-shirt printed with the Christian slogan, “My Savior Is Tougher Than Nails…”

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