BREAKING NEWS — SHERIFF SPEAKS OUT ON SAYLOR HAYES’ PARENTS AFTER 5-YEAR-OLD GIRL’S TRAG-IC DE-ATH IN SOUTH CAROLINA – A DETAIL THAT HAS SPARKED FRESH QUESTIONS…

The parents of 5-year-old  have been arrested for allegedly abandoning their child, leading to her untimely death in a South Carolina river, according to police.

Georgetown County Sheriff Carter Weaver announced Tuesday that  and  were apprehended in Carter County, Tennessee, and are currently awaiting extradition back to Georgetown.

Weaver said the two were charged with unlawfully placing a child at risk/willfully abandoning a child in connection with Saylor disappearing from a rental home in Hagley Estates on Pawleys Island, SC, and then ending up ᴅᴇᴀᴅ.

Police said Hayes’ body  Monday morning in the Waccamaw River during an intense search for the child involving multiple agencies.

A rep for the Georgetown Sheriff’s Office told TMZ … Saylor went missing from the rental home Sunday — and her parents called police around 11:30 AM to report that she had disappeared.

Hundreds of people participated in the search, with agents from the Department of Natural Resources spotting Saylor’s corpse floating on the water’s surface while they were in a boat.

The medical examiner is conducting an autopsy to determine Saylor’s cause and manner of death.