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Someone stole Baby Jesus again

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Published: Dec. 21, 2007 at 2:47 PM

NYACK, N.Y., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Reports of a missing child circulated among holiday shoppers in New York marking the third time in four years the Baby Jesus from a nativity scene went missing.

The Baby Jesus statue vanished from a nativity scene on Main Street in the quiet New York village of Nyack for the third time in four years, the White Plains (N.Y.) Journal News reported Friday.

"Either somebody is trying to be funny or it's someone overly zealous who decides this is real," said Frank Gemeinhardt of the Knights of Columbus Piermont Council that displays the manger at Veterans Park each year.

Gemeinhardt said he thought an "overly zealous" person may take things too literally, as last year someone put a blanket over the Baby Jesus statue.

Gemeinhardt said he hoped the statue would show up for Christmas, it being Jesus' birthday and all.

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