‘Extreme signs of disintegration’: Mother, father and son allowed severely disabled 14-year-old girl to waste away in a crib where she was covered in urine and feces

In a left to right line-up, David Baynard, Bobbie Jo Baynard, and Edward Vincent Baynard appear inset against an image of the crib Heather Baynard was confined to.

Inset left to right: David Baynard, Bobbie Jo Baynard, and Edward Vincent Baynard (Cherokee County Detention Center). Background: The crib Heather Baynard was confined to (Spartanburg County Solicitor).

Three members of the same South Carolina family will spend the next several decades behind bars for the abuse, neglect, and murder of their severely disabled sister and daughter.

Heather Baynard, 14, died at Spartanburg Medical Center on April 11, 2022.

The next day, law enforcement executed a search warrant at the Baynard residence on Camp Ferry Road in Gaffney, a small town known as the “Peach Capital of South Carolina” and the Cherokee County seat. Another search would follow.

Neither time did deputies like what they found inside.

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