USA: a child abandoned in 2000 ends up in a police station with a policeman who rescues him 24 years later

The circle is complete. A young man who was found abandoned by a police officer in Indiana (USA) 24 years ago when he was a baby has just joined an agent’s police department as a police officer, CBS reported.

The story takes place on the night of December 22, 2000, three days before Christmas. That evening, the phone of Gene Eyster, a retired American police officer, rang: “It was one of the strangest calls I’ve ever received: ‘We found a baby in a box,’” he recalled to CBS.

“Baby Jesus”

Arriving at the scene, the police officer found a child wrapped in a blanket in a cardboard box and took him to the hospital.

Discovered three days before Christmas, police nicknamed the baby “Baby Jesus.” “We didn’t want to call him John Doe,” an Anglo-Saxon name for people whose identity is unknown, explained Gene Eyster.

The agent goes to the hospital to visit the child: “I came back with a teddy bear. It was just a symbol to let everyone who walked by know they were cared for,” he says.

“The timing couldn’t have been better”

The policeman then lost track of him for more than 20 years and retired. But a few weeks ago, he received a call from a former colleague: “He told me: Baby Jesus, he’s next to me, he’s new,” the cop continued.

After being rescued, the baby, real name Matthew Hegedus-Stewart, was put up for adoption. If the young man had known that he was found in the box, he would never have met his savior. “It’s over,” the young cop told CBS.

A meaningful reunion for a retired police officer who lost his only son, 36, a few months ago. “The timing couldn’t have been better, it filled the void I had to face,” he said.