A grieving father says he feels like a “scar got ripped open” after he learned that a Georgia burial site could not find his deceased daughter’s remains.

Kamaron Hickman laid his daughter Jada to rest at Hillcrest Memorial Park in Augusta decades ago. The 6-month-old died in her sleep in 2001 while they were living in Germany – where Hickman was stationed at the time while in the Army.

Earlier this month, Hickman shared that he had a plan to exhume Jada’s remains with intentions to cremate her since he no longer lives in the area. But the experience became “an absolute nightmare,” he explained in a Jan. 3 Facebook post.

“The staff told us that they dug up all three plots that we purchased back then with zero success and concluded that after all this time, the remains’ may have’ returned to the earth,” Hickman wrote. “I don’t remember a lot from that day, but I do know she was buried in a white casket, little white shoes, a white dress, a headband, and her favorite rattle toy. We were asked if we wanted some dirt from the plot for our ceremony, which really rubbed me the wrong way.”

Source: ‘An Absolute Nightmare’: Father Devastated After Discovering His Deceased Child’s Remains Are Missing from Georgia Burial Site