Badly beaten toddler removed from life support
Published 10:08 am Monday, August 31, 2015
SANDSTONE — The parents of a three-year-old boy beaten to death in Pine County say they’ve donated the child’s organs so he can “be a hero in another child’s life.”
The family of Dante Sears says the toddler was taken off life support Saturday and a funeral service will be held Friday in Sandstone.
Authorities say Dante’s mother, Jessica Carr, went to work Monday and left the boy and a sibling in the care of her boyfriend. She told police she received a disturbing text at work and when she returned home she found her son’s badly beaten body.
The family says the child was taken off life support Saturday — two days after his third birthday. The funeral service Friday is at Sandstone Evangelical Free Church.