Missing baby survives being buried alive near Batesburg-Leesville

BATESBURG-LEESVILLE, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - Lexington County searchers found a missing 11-month-old buried alive, crying and clinging to life Tuesday afternoon.It happened about 12 hours following the arrest of his father, Michael Cromer, 25, after the boy was reported missing.And it was more than 24 hours after the boy had last been seen.The boy, Koah Sharpe, was found Tuesday afternoon in a shallow grave inside a 2-foot by 2-foot dog crate, wrapped in a towel and crying “at the top of his lungs,” Sheriff Jay Koon said Tuesday afternoon. Authorities said enough air was trapped inside to let him survive the past 24 hours. Koon said the towel wrapped around the crate “probably provided enough air for him to survive our estimation of the last 24 hours under that dirt,” and he called the sound of Koah crying “the most joyful sound you ever heard of a crying baby.”Koah was brought out and taken to a hospital. Koon believed Koah was in the shallow grave for about 24 hours.Koon said the cold wea