11-Month-Old Found Buried Alive In Dog Crate

An 11-month-old South Carolina baby who was buried alive for roughly 24 hours in a dog crate was found “clinging to life” Tuesday following an extensive search and rescue effort.

Koah Sharpe was reported missing on Monday after his father, Michael Comer, allegedly took him from his grandmother’s care. Comer was later arrested on a burglary charge, but the infant remained missing.

“We found some video early this morning of Michael around in and around Batesburg-Leesville, with no baby,” Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon told reporters. “So certainly we got worried, hoping and praying that he dropped a baby with another person.” Comer had no vehicle and no Amber Alert was issued. 

Nearly 100 first responders joined the frantic search to locate Koah, according to Koon. The search party moved near Comer’s father’s home and spotted what appeared to be “freshly disturbed” dirt about 50 yards into the woods, drawing the FBI’s attention.

Rescuers eventually found the boy wrapped in a towel inside a dog crate that had been shallowly buried in the woods in the Batesburg-Leesville area.

The infant was crying when he was discovered, a sound Koon described as “the most joyful sound you ever heard of a crying baby” during a press briefing.

“As they probed it and laid it out and started digging, you could hear little Koah crying,” the sheriff said. “As you imagine, the race was on; everybody’s getting down there trying to get him out.”

“Certainly, God is good,” Koon said, suggesting the crate may have helped save the baby’s life. “By the grace of God, [the crate] probably provided enough air for him to survive, our estimation of the last 24 hours under that dirt,” he said.

The baby was rushed to a hospital. Authorities are hopeful he will make a full recovery. The sheriff’s office is working with prosecutors to determine additional charges against Comer.

Koon also suggested that cooler temperatures may have helped the infant survive.

“Well, strangely enough, the cold weather may have helped too with it,” he said. “So a lot of things were going in Koah’s favor, and the good Lord looked down on him the last 24 hours. And hopefully, at 11 months old, he will not remember much of this as he grows older.”

“Just to have a great inspiring story to tell,” he added.

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