A mother whose infant son was found buried alive in a dog crate claims her ex sent her a disturbing message about a ‘dumpster baby’ around the time he allegedly snatched their son.
Dezarae Sharp’s 11-month-old son, Koah, was found ‘clinging to life’ on Tuesday afternoon after spending approximately 24 hours shallowly buried under dirt in the South Carolina woods, police said.
Sharp, 25, has now claimed that her former partner, Michael Comer, texted her before Koah vanished and seemed to allude to what was coming.
‘Michael did text me 2 days ago, I skimmed the message and the bottom said something about a dumpster baby,’ she wrote on Facebook Tuesday morning.
‘I assumed he was talking about the baby I’m pregnant with but here we are.’
Sharp urged anyone in the greater Lexington area to check ‘any type of ‘dumpster” for the then-missing infant, adding: ‘I’ve already went outside to check my trash can.’
Comer, 25, was arrested late Monday in Lexington County on a burglary charge after police found him hiding in an outbuilding. No charges have yet been filed in connection to Koah’s disturbing disappearance.
The suspect’s mother, Trish Comer, who had been taking care of Koah on Monday morning before leaving the baby in his care, has disowned her ‘pure evil’ son.
Dezarae Sharp, pictured with her son, Koah, says the infant’s father sent her a disturbing message about a ‘dumpster baby’ before he allegedly buried their son alive
Michael Comer, pictured with Koah, was arrested late Monday in Lexington County on a burglary charge. No charges have yet been filed in connection to Koah’s disappearance
The suspect’s mother, Trish Comer, pictured with her grandchildren, has now disowned her ‘pure evil’ son. She said: ‘There is no excuse for what my son did and I hope that he pays’
Trish had been very vocal online since Koah went missing around 11am on Monday.
Police found the little boy around 1.30pm Tuesday after he spent what is believed to be 24 hours under the ground just 50 yards from his paternal grandfather’s home.
‘How the baby was found is pure evil,’ Trish posted about six hours after police located Koah.
‘There is no excuse for what my son did and I hope that he pays for what he did.’
She then hit out at the social media users who had been criticizing her family, saying: ‘Now can we please just be thankful that he is alive and praise God for it because that’s the only person who can be thankful for what that poor baby went through.’
Trish added that she does ‘feel guilty’ because she had trusted her son with his child.
Comer had left Koah in Trish’s care on Monday morning, Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon said, noting that the grandmother would often babysit the child.
When Trish needed to run an errand, Koah was left in Comer’s care before another babysitter was set to arrive. But ‘by the time the caregiver got there, Michael was gone and Koah was gone with him,’ Koon added.
Sharp’s 11-month-old son was found ‘clinging to life’ on Tuesday afternoon after spending approximately 24 hours shallowly buried under dirt in the South Carolina woods, police said
The search ended on Tuesday as Koah Sharp, seen with his father Michael Comer, was found crying inside of the buried wire crate near Batesburg-Leesville, Sheriff Jay Koon said
Sharp has full custody of Koah, but said she allowed Comer to have visitation on the weekends because ‘he’s been going to therapy and stopped drinking’
Police were called around midday, Koah was reported missing and law enforcement began a search.
Investigators went to Comer’s father’s home, which was just up the street, and found both doors open. There were baby belongings in the house but no sign of Comer or the infant, Koon said.
Comer was found in an outbuilding at a house in Batesburg later that evening and arrested, but Koah was nowhere to be found.
A search party of nearly 100 first responders was deployed and investigators began searching the woods near Koah’s paternal grandfather’s home.
Search crews noticed ‘freshly disturbed’ dirt and pine straw on Tuesday afternoon, prompting law enforcement to begin digging before they finally heard the infant crying.
‘As they probed it, laid it out and started digging, you could hear little Koah crying,’ Koon said. ‘So, as you imagine, the race was on, everybody’s getting down there trying to get him out.’
The child was then pulled from inside the crate which had been covered in a towel, which Koon said may have created an air pocket helping him survive.
‘By the Grace of God, probably provided enough air for him to survive, our estimation is about 24 hours, under that dirt, Koon said.
Koah was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment and ‘hopefully will make a full recovery,’ the local sheriff said
Trish says that she knew her Comer, pictured after his arrest, was a ‘problem,’ but ‘did not know that he was this bad’
Koah was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment and ‘hopefully will make a full recovery,’ the sheriff added.
Sharp has full custody of Koah, but said she allowed Comer to have visitation on the weekends because ‘he’s been going to therapy and stopped drinking.’
Sharp posted on Facebook that Comer ‘is a harm to himself as far as I’ve heard, so possibly to others.’
Trish went on to say that she knew her ‘son’s a problem,’ but ‘did not know that he was this bad.’
‘He loved that baby, he’d do anything for that baby. He took good care of that baby, if you could see him with that baby he was wonderful,’ she wrote.
‘I did not know that he would do something like this and I’m sorry that I did not see this beforehand.’
The Daily Mail has approached Sharp and Trish for comment. Comer remains in jail and has not yet retained any attorney.
