{"id":4190,"date":"2026-11-11T11:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T06:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2026-11-11T11:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T06:03:50","slug":"baby-boy-found-alive-in-us-after-believed-buried-for-24-hours-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4190","title":{"rendered":"Baby boy found alive in US after believed buried for 24 hours, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>An 11-month-old boy was found alive in South Carolina on Tuesday after he \u200bwas believed to have been buried for \u200cabout 24 hours, the Lexington County Sheriff\u2019s Department said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The infant, Koah Sharpe, was found wrapped in a towel in \u200ba dog crate, shallowly buried in the woods, \u200baccording to the department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertainly God is good. Just \u2060a few moments ago, we found little \u200bKoah, 11 months old, buried alive, clinging to life, \u200bcrying \u2014 the most joyful sound you ever heard of a crying baby,\u201d Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon said during a \u200bnews conference.<\/p>\n<p>Koon said the infant\u2019s father, Michael \u200bComer, was arrested on Monday night on burglary and resisting arrest. \u200c<\/p>\n<p>The \u2060department is working with the solicitor\u2019s office to determine additional charges, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Koah went missing on Monday after being left in his father\u2019s care \u200bat his mother\u2019s \u200bhome while \u2060she ran an errand, Koon said.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was reported missing, and \u200bauthorities began a widespread search, according to \u200bthe \u2060sheriff.<\/p>\n<p>Koah was found after a search party discovered \u201cfreshly disturbed\u201d dirt in the woods about 50 yards from \u2060Comer\u2019s \u200bfather\u2019s house, Koon said.<\/p>\n<p>The infant \u200bis currently at the hospital and will \u201chopefully\u201d recover, the sheriff said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 11-month-old boy was found alive in South Carolina on Tuesday after he \u200bwas believed to have been buried for \u200cabout 24 hours, the Lexington County Sheriff\u2019s Department said. The infant, Koah Sharpe, was found wrapped in a towel in \u200ba dog crate, shallowly buried in the woods, \u200baccording to the department. \u201cCertainly God is good. Just \u2060a few moments ago, we found little \u200bKoah, 11 months old, buried alive, clinging to life, \u200bcrying \u2014 the most joyful sound you ever heard of a crying baby,\u201d Lexington County Sheriff Jay&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}