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\"longform-24627-1448425100-3\"Rather than kill him\u00a0in the womb, or toss him out a window into courtyard after he was born, a Queens, New York, mother wrapped her newborn<\/a> in towels purchased from a 99-cent store and laid him in a Christmas Nativity manger on the lawn of Holy Child Jesus<\/a> Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

It was church custodian\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Moran who first heard the whimpering coming from the manger where he found the child who now bears the nickname \u201cBaby Jesus.”\u00a0 His umbilical cord was still attached.<\/p>\n

Moran told the\u00a0New York Daily News<\/a> that an hour after the nativity scene was erected, right after he returned from lunch, he was cleaning the church when he heard the infant cry.<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 told reporters:<\/p>\n

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I looked around and didn\u2019t see anyone. I followed the cries. I walked to the little nativity home we had installed inside the church\u2026 I couldn\u2019t believe my eyes. The baby was wrapped in towels. He still had his umbilical cord. He was next to the Virgin (Mary).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Since the infant was found, police surveillance video has uncovered footage of a woman entering the church with what appears to be a baby who walked\u00a0out with nothing in her arms. Officers also found tape in a local dollar\u00a0store showing a woman with an infant inside her jacket purchasing towels.<\/p>\n

While authorities attempt to locate the woman on the tape, the healthy baby boy is now in the care of Administration of Children\u2019s Services.<\/p>\n

In New York State, as long as the infant is handed over to an appropriate person, the law permits unwanted newborns to be anonymously abandoned at places called \u201csafe havens<\/a>.\u201d \u00a0Women can surrender babies up to 30 days old at local churches, police stations, firehouses and hospitals.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this mother could face criminal charges for leaving her baby in a manger without notifying anyone that he was there.<\/p>\n

Calling the baby in the manger a \u201cChristmas miracle,\u201d one of the priests at the church, Father Christopher Ryan Heanue, said that the baby\u2019s mother \u201cmust have been in a difficult place in her life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heanue added, \u201cGod works in mysterious ways. \u201d<\/p>\n

He certainly does! Perhaps we can\u00a0be thankful this Thanksgiving that a woman in New York City, where 40 percent\u00a0of pregnancies end in abortion, loved and cared enough for \u201cBaby Jes\u00fas\u201d to swaddle him in towels and selflessly place him in a cr\u00e8che\u00a0at a Richmond Hill church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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