Gene Eyster found Matthew Hegedus-Stewart in a cardboard box when he was a baby. Now, more than two decades later, he was able to reunite with the boy he helped save.
Your account is not active. We have sent an email to the address you provided with an activation link. Check your inbox, and click on the link to activate your account.to inform them about a distressing sight they had witnessed in the hallway of their apartment complex in South Bend, Indiana.In 2000, the now-retiered police officer Gene Eyster was called to a scene where a baby was found in a box in Indiana.
When the 47-year veteran arrived at the apartment, he saw the abandoned baby boy covered with blankets inside a cardboard box.The newborn, identified as “Baby Boy Doe” at the time, was then taken to the hospital, where he received a visit from Eyster. Now, over 20 years later, the retired police lieutenant has reunited with the man he saved as a baby had called him to ask if he recalled the case of “Baby Boy Doe,” whom Eyster referred to as “Baby Jesus,” given the time he found him.“Well, you’re not going to believe this,” the officer responded. “He’s sitting next to me; he’s my rookie.”
“This is a kind of closure for Gene. For over twenty years, he has wondered what happened to Baby Jesus. But here we are. We made it.”
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