Father Christopher Heanue
A custodian for a New York church followed the cries of an infant coming from a nativity scene and found a baby laying in the manger with its umbilical cord still attached.
The newborn, nicknamed "Baby Jesus," was found next to the Virgin Mary in the manger of a Christmas nativity scene in Holy Child Jesus Church in Queens.
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Jose Moran, 60, a maintenance worker for the church, discovered the baby after returning from lunch around 1 p.m. Monday. Moran told the New York Daily News that he was cleaning when he first heard the child cry.
“I looked around and didn’t see anyone,” he said. “I followed the cries. I walked to the little nativity home we had installed inside the church... I couldn’t believe my eyes. The baby was wrapped in towels. He still had his umbilical cord. He was next to the Virgin (Mary).”
Moran said that the church had finished erecting the nativity scene only an hour before "Baby Jesus" was found.
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“God works in mysterious ways,” Father Christopher Ryan Heanue, one of the priests at the church, said to the Daily News. “(The child’s mother) must have been in a difficult place in her life.”
Heanue called the baby a "Christmas miracle" in an interview with Reuters and said a young couple in the church has offered to adopt the child.
The baby who is healthy is now under the care of the Administration of Children’s Services as police try to locate the mother.
Police have surveillance video of a woman walking into the church with what appears to be the baby and walking out without the child. Officers also said there was footage of the woman in a 99-cents store buying towels with the infant wrapped inside her coat.
New York state law allows for newborns to be anonymously surrendered at safe havens, which includes churches, police stations, firehouses and hospitals, as long as the infant is given to an appropriate person.
Police said the mother could face charges since she didn't notify anyone where the baby was being left.
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