Parents Charged After 5-Year-Old Found Dead in South Carolina
Authorities say the parents removed her tracking device before vacation and directed searchers away from the water, then faced child endangerment charges.
- On Tuesday, authorities in Carter County, Tennessee, arrested John Herb Hayes III and Geordyn Nichole Hayes following the death of their 5-year-old daughter, Saylor Hayes, in South Carolina.
- Saylor, who was autistic and nonverbal, participated in the Washington County Sheriff's Office Project Lifesaver program, but the tracking device she usually wore was left behind at the family's Virginia home.
- Arrest warrants allege the couple failed to provide appropriate supervision for a child with a known affinity for water and encouraged searchers to use tracking technology despite knowing she was not wearing the device.
- The couple faces charges of unlawfully placing a child at risk or willfully abandoning a child under South Carolina law; they await extradition to Georgetown County for judicial proceedings.
- Georgetown County Sheriff Carter Weaver called the death 'a heartbreaking tragedy' and stated that 'parents and caregivers have a fundamental responsibility to protect children who cannot protect themselves.
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Police arrest parents of 5-year-old girl found dead in Georgetown County
Source: Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) — One day after the body of five-year-old Saylor Hayes was found in water near her family’s Pawleys Island vacation rental home, police in Carter County, Tennessee arrested her parents. According to the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office (GCSO), John Herb Hayes, III and Geordyn Nichole Hayes are each charged with unlawfully...
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