Bikes stolen from Mama Moses’ Christmas toy giveaway. ‘I forgive him,’ she says.

It knocked the breath out of Melanie Stewart, better known as “Mama Moses,” when she discovered a thief had taken four kids’ bikes off the front porch of her Harnett County charity, stealing presents away from her massive, annual Christmas toy giveaway.

But it cracked her heart even deeper when she learned the man Lillington police charged with the crime had been a regular at Underground Railroad, her community outreach for the poor, and had accepted food, clothing and “everything he had on.”

But Stewart held tight to the Underground Railroad motto, which is “Keep Plowing.”…

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