A retired Indiana police lieutenant got the shock of his life when one of the officers he served with previously alerted him of a new recruit’s identity.
“He said, ‘Well, you’re not going to believe this.’ I said, ‘What?’ He says, ‘He’s sitting next to me,'” Gene Eyster, retired lieutenant from the South Bend Police Department in the Hoosier State, told “Fox & Friends Weekend.”
“I said, ‘Who is?’ [He replied with] ‘Baby Jesus. He’s sitting next to me. He’s my rookie,'” he continued. “It was surreal.”
HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR IS FINALLY REUNITED WITH THE FAMILY THAT SAVED HIS LIFE
Matthew Hegdus-Stewart (left) and Gene Eyster (right) (South Bend Police Department/Fox & Friends Weekend)
Eyster went on to explain the “Baby Jesus” name given to the unnamed baby was a nod to rescuing him after three students found him in a box just days before Christmas.
“We didn’t want to degrade him by calling him John Doe. Baby Jesus came up.”
That baby…
