Bench Goes Missing In North Chelmsford

CHELMSFORD, MA — Recently Patricia Moore purchased a bench to put near the little lending library near her home in North Chelmsford. She thought it would be a great place for the neighborhood children to sit and read.

But on Sunday afternoon, someone driving a pickup truck drove up to her home on Dunshire Drive, and put the bench in the truck and drove off, she said.

"I am devastated," Moore said in a post on the Chelmsford Patch.

Not only was the bench a spot for the neighborhood children who might come to check out the books in her little free library, but it was where her two sons, both diagnosed with autism loved sitting as they waited for their special education vans in the morning to take them to school.

"I am a single mother and special education teacher that cannot afford to by another," she said. "Why are some people so mean?"

Moore said she has video footage of the bench being removed, and has reached out to the police for help, but also asked the neighborhood to keep an eye out.