US infant Jesus statue to get GPS

   [image: Nativity scene] The statue was stolen from a nativity scene like
the one above
*A statue of the infant Jesus on display near Miami in Florida is being
fitted with a Global Positioning System device after the original figurine
was stolen.* The near-life-size figure forms part of a nativity scene in Bal
Harbour city. The original vanished three weeks ago, despite being bolted to
the ground. Dina Cellini, who oversees the display, says the statues of Mary
and Joseph will also be fitted with a satellite tracking device to deter
thieves. She said: "I don't anticipate this will ever happen again, but we
may need to rely on technology to save our saviour." A Jewish lawyer,
Jeffrey Harris, from Cincinnati, who read about the theft on the internet,
has donated the new Jesus figurine in the Founders Circle area of the city. Mr
Harris, who celebrates Hanukkah, not Christmas, told the Miami Herald: ''I
felt bad. How could someone steal a baby Jesus? Even though I am Jewish, I
like the Christmas spirit.''

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