Claims extracted
22
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
14%
3 of 22 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
95/100
Toronto Sun's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
14
Health
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
An 11-month-old boy was rescued after being buried alive in the woods — and his father has been arrested, South Carolina officials said.
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officials → rescue → woods
Baby Koah Sharpe was found wrapped in a towel, Lexington County Sheriff Bryan Koon said in a news conference.
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Koon → find → conference
The infant was “clinging to life, crying,” the sheriff said, calling it “the most joyful sound you ever heard.”
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you → cling → it
Koon estimated that Koah had spent about 24 hours “under that dirt” and “by the grace of God, probably provided enough air for him to survive.”
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him → estimate → air
Missing since Monday
Koah, described as a “bright” 20-pound boy with reddish-blond hair and blue eyes and with his pacifier, was taken by his father, Michael Comer, on Monday, the sheriff’s office said in an alert.
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office → miss → alert
Comer was arrested on a burglary charge late Monday, but the baby was not with him.
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baby → arrest → him
Koon said Comer’s mother, Patricia Comer, was taking care of the baby Monday morning.
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mother → say → baby
Michael returned and his mother left because another caregiver was on the way, according to the sheriff.
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caregiver → return → sheriff
“By the time the caregiver got there, Michael was gone and Koah was gone with him,” he said.
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he → get → him
Investigators obtained video showing Comer at multiple locations without the baby as authorities searched for the pair.
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authorities → obtain → pair
“Certainly we got worried, hoping and praying that he dropped the baby with another person,” the sheriff said.
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sheriff → get → person
“As the day went on and nobody came forward, it was certainly more and more concerning.”
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it → go → ?
Following her son’s arrest, Patricia said in a phone interview with NBC News that Michael is “where he needs to be.”
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he → follow → News
She added: “Honestly, I’m his mother, and I never expected this from him.”
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I → add → him
Koah’s mother has full custody of the child, Patricia told the outlet, but explained that she would let Patricia supervise him on weekends.
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Patricia → have → weekends
She said that there was no custody agreement preventing Michael from watching the child unsupervised, something he had previously done with no issues.
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he → say → issues
Patricia added that there were no warning signs and that what her son is accused of doing is “pure evil,” according to the outlet.
Michael has lived with his mother following a recent jail stint, noting that “all he does is go to work and come home.”
She added: “I did not know he would do anything like this.
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he → add → this
Who would think their own child would do something like this?”
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child → think → this
Where was Koah found?
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Koah → find → ?
The wire crate, about two feet by two feet, Koon said, was discovered in a shallow hole around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in a wooded area near the home of Comer’s father.
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Koon → say → father
The baby was rushed to a hospital after the rescue.
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baby → rush → rescue
Koah’s towel wrapping likely created an air pocket, the sheriff said, adding that the cool weather also may have helped the baby survive.
“A lot of things were going in Koah’s favour, and the good Lord looked down on him the last 24 hours.”
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Lord → create → him
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