Deputy finds missing Montana baby still alive after buried in the mountains

Missing Montana baby found alive after buried in the mountains

Deputy Ross Jessup and fellow officers are heroes after finding a baby that had been buried in a Montana mountain side for at least 7 hours, reports CNN.

Jessup, a Missoula County sheriff’s deputy, was searching a wooded area for a 5-month-old missing baby boy on Sunday.  Francis Carlton Crowley, 32, a fugitive from Oregon, was stopped by the police after calls came in about his bazaar behavior.  The police assessed he was under the influence of drugs. They asked about a baby and he stated the baby was “buried in the mountains.  Police began searching Saturday night.

Around 2 a.m Sunday, Jessup was talking on his radio, tired, frustrated but still hopeful after 6 long hours of searching.

“All night long, I was preparing myself mentally to find a dead baby. … I was angry, kind of, at the time,” Jessop told HLN’s Mike Galanos on Tuesday afternoon. “I was losing my faith … that the baby was even alive.”

Then a miracle happened, Jessup heard a whimpering sound of a baby. He dug at the nearby dirt and found the child face down in his soiled onesie.