Articles labeled: corona

A man and woman walked into a church in Queens, New York and gave the priest there a dead, decomposed baby and asked him to perform a religious burial for it. It’s being speculated that the couple’s teenage daughter had given birth to the baby then hid the baby before she ran away. All righty, then! That’s quite the saga!

The couple arrived at Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church, at 104-11 37th Avenue in Corona, with the body in a bag after an evening Mass, Mr. Browne said. They told the priest that they had found the body in a closet at their home. After the three of them prayed over the body, the couple left, and the priest called the police, Mr. Browne said.

The priest told the police that he did not know the couple, but believed that they might be parishioners.

The Rev. Thomas Healy, the priest at the church, was not available for comment on Thursday, his secretary said.

Well, we have to admit this way of abandoning a baby is certainly “creative”. A man in Queens, New York, flagged down a black “car for hire” (we’re assuming that means a limo or Town Car), got in with his 6-month-old baby, and after riding a few minutes he asked the driver to stop at which point he took off running leaving the infant girl behind.

The driver immediately took the infant to a firehouse in Corona, the police arrived and the baby was taken to St. John’s Queens Hospital, where she was in good condition.

Officials said the child had not been harmed. They had not identified her or her parents and had not determined whether the man who left her was a relative.

The police said the city’s Administration for Children’s Services would eventually take custody of the infant.