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Handicapped Toddler Buried Alive, Naked

Raisin City, CA- A Christmas get-together took a tragic turn Thursday for a small child in Raisin City.

Within minutes, the holiday party of over a hundred people turned into a search party for a missing 4-year-old  disabled girl. "Everything was okay until that happened," said Lauro Beiterbo.

Beiterbo and others had gathered for a prayer around midnight, when they were interrupted by word that the 4-year-old disabled girl was missing.

"All the women were crying, they were all nervous and scared and they grabbed on to their children," Urial Beiterbo said.

Partygoers spent around 40 minutes searching for the small child before one man made a horrifying discovery. "First he saw a blanket, then a little shoe, socks," said Beiterbo. The man was in the middle of a vineyard when, Beiterbo says, "He saw the little girl's foot was buried; just her little foot was sticking out. The rest of her body was inside the ground ." 

The find turned the once festive event into something straight out of a nightmare."I was scared," Beiterbo said, "I was like that's just crazy."

Fresno County Sheriff's Deputies were immediately called to the scene. Witnesses say the child was naked, and may have been sexually assaulted.

Unresponsive and bleeding, the girl was rushed into the house, and taken to a local hospital. Her condition has not been made available.

The Fresno County Sheriff's Department is investigating the crime. Right now they only say they have a suspect in custody, who they believe was at the party.