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19 March 2024

Mum buys towels before leaving her baby outside church [video]

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CCTV has emerged showing a woman buying towels at a supermarket in the moments before she ditched a newborn baby at a nativity scene outside a church in New York.

The newborn - with his umbilical cord still attached - was found lying in a manger at Church in Queens, police said.

Police found surveillance video revealing the woman walking into the church with the baby and leaving a few minutes later empty handed. (Facebook/Bishop Octavio Cisneros)

The custodian found the crying infant wrapped in towels. (Facebook/Bishop Octavio Cisneros)