Christopher Ryan Heanue
A newborn baby cries as he is attended to by church workers right after they found him at the Nativity scene of the Holy Child Jesus Catholic Church in Richmond Hill, Queens, New York, on November 23, 2015.
The mother who left her new-born baby in a New York church's Nativity crib has said that she knew that someone would find him and help him.
Speaking anonymously to the New York Post, she said: "I knew if I left him in God's hands, he would be OK."
Police have agreed not to prosecute her because the case falls under the "safe haven" law, which says that a newborn baby can be dropped off anonymously at a church, hospital, police or fire station without fearing prosecution.
