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Saylor Hayes autopsy results released days after parents arrested, extradited
New York Post • • nation
Key Points:
- A 5-year-old non-verbal autistic girl, Saylor Hayes, was found dead in a South Carolina waterway, with an autopsy revealing pulmonary edema consistent with drowning and no visible trauma on her body.
- Saylor was discovered wearing a bathing suit and an ankle strap resembling a child’s wrist tether, but she was not wearing her Project Lifesaver transmitter, a device intended to prevent wandering, which had been removed before the family left Virginia.
- Her parents, John Herb Hayes III and Geordyn Nichole Hayes, were arrested in Tennessee on charges of unlawfully placing a child at risk and willfully abandoning a child, accused of failing to provide adequate supervision for their severely nonverbal autistic daughter.
- The couple has a history of child abuse-related charges, including felony child abuse and child cruelty, with previous cases resulting in probation and fines, and they waived extradition to South Carolina following their recent arrest.
- The final autopsy report is pending and expected in 8 to 10 weeks, while investigations continue into the circumstances surrounding Saylor’s death and the removal of her monitoring device.
