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What Child Is This?

Jacqueline Ross thought a baby was being neglected, so she took him to a hospital, authorities say. “Child has broken right foot which is been [sic] neglected,” said the note left with the boy. “Parents Joseph and Mary Christ got a warning.” Yes, the infant was Jesus — a $2,700 porcelain figurine, swiped from a Bethlehem, Pa., nativity scene. The 49-year-old claimed she was only playing a joke, but she’s been arrested on theft and vandalism charges. (AC/AP) ...She’d better hope there’s a porcelain adult Jesus there to free the prisoners.
Original Publication Date: 25 December 2016
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.

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