11-month-old baby survives 24 hours after being buried alive by her father in America

U11-month-old baby is hospitalized after being buried alive on a property in South Carolina, United States.

Koah Sharpe had been reported missing after being with her father. The boy was found wrapped in a towel, inside a grave on Tuesday.

Dad, Michael Eater, 25, is the prime suspect.

“ By the grace of God, the grave had enough room to provide the air needed for the baby to survive for 24 hours,” Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon announced at a press conference held on the afternoon of Tuesday, November 10.

Koah's mother would be taking care of him when she had to leave him in the care of her father just before the nanny arrived. When the last one came home, there was no sign of the baby or the father. That same day the family issued an alert for his disappearance.

The police believe the man managed to get away from the scene by hitchhiking a lot of strangers. He was found at the end of the day in a shed in Batesburg.

The next day, authorities searched the house of the child's father when they found a zone with the newly moved land.

As soon as the cops started digging, they heard Koah crying and started an operation to quickly find the boy still alive.

The sheriff said it's believed that the towel that was put in the hole would have created some kind of air box that allowed the baby to survive.

The police also believe that Koah will make a complete recovery of the incident and “as little will grow he will remember what happened,” although he now has a survival story to tell for the rest of his life.

The father is under arrest and it was not possible to ascertain his motivations, but the NY Post reports that there was already a history of domestic violence between Michael and the child's mother.