One day after Saylor Hayes was found dead, her parents were arrested in connection to the nonverbal and autistic 5-year-old’s death.

John Herb Hayes III and Geordyn Nichole Hayes were taken into custody on Tuesday, September 1, in Tennessee and each charged with unlawfully placing a child at risk/wilfully abandoning a child, the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office announced in a statement that same day.

As Us previously reported, Saylor was last seen on Sunday, August 30, and eventually found dead in a waterway close to the family’s Pawleys Island, South Carolina, rental home around 9:45 a.m. the following day. Authorities said she was found…

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