MELANIE HAYNES - 2 yo - (2010) Rincon (Savannah/Effingham County) GA

Effingham County sheriff's deputies are investigating what they are
calling the suspicious death of a 2-year-old Rincon girl.Sheriff's
office spokesman David Ehsanipoor said deputies responded to an Aspen
Drive residence Tuesday shortly after 9:30 p.m. on a report of an
unresponsive child who was not breathing.Deputies arrived within
minutes and started life-saving measures, Ehsanipoor said. The child
was transported by emergency service personnel to Memorial Health
University Medical Center in Savannah. The girl died about 5 p.m.
Wednesday, Ehsanipoor said.Her name was not released.The
child's body was taken to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's crime
lab in Savannah for autopsy to determine the exact cause of death,
deputies reported.No other children were at the residence at the time of the incident,
Ehsanipoor said.The Effingham County sheriff's office criminal investigations division is handling the investigation.

SPRINGFIELD, Ga.


A Rincon man has been charged with murder in the death of a two-year old girl.Effingham County sheriff investigators arrested 27-year-old Kevin Johnson Friday night in the death of Melanie Haynes.Effingham
County sheriff's spokesman David Ehsanipoor said the child's death
Wednesday was caused by blunt force trauma to the head and multiple
other injuries.Local news outlets reported that deputies
received a report at about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday concerning an unresponsive
child who was not breathing.The child was taken to a Savannah hospital where she died Wednesday evening.

A Rincon man has been charged with the death of Melanie Haynes, a 2-year-old Rincon child.Effingham
County sheriff investigators arrested Kevin Johnson, 27, Friday night
on murder charges after autopsy results showed the toddler's death was
caused by blunt force trauma to the head and multiple other injuries,
Effingham County sheriff's spokesman David Ehsanipoor said.

Johnson
was babysitting the child Tuesday when deputies were called to the 30
Aspen Drive residence shortly after 9:30 p.m. on a report of an
unresponsive child who was not breathing. Deputies started CPR, and the
child was taken to Memorial University Medical Center, where she died
about 5 p.m. Wednesday.The injuries to the toddler were brutal, Ehsanipoor said."This crime is particularly heinous, especially since it was committed against an innocent child," he said.Johnson is not the child's father, but is the boyfriend of the child's mother, Ehsanipoor said.Johnson was alone with the child at the time of assault, deputies reported. No other children were in the home."The
child's father was serving overseas in the United States Army at the
time of the crime," Ehsanipoor said. He has since returned.Tuesday's assault on Melanie Haynes may not have been the first case of abuse, deputies reported."We are investigating possible episodes of previous abuse," Ehsanipoor said.The Effingham County sheriff's department criminal investigation division is continuing to investigate.Johnson is being held in the Effingham County Jail pending a bond hearing.

Man faces additional charge in toddler's death
An additional charge has been filed against a Rincon man
accused in the death of a 2-year-old child last week.Effingham
County sheriff's spokesman David Ehsanipoor said Kevin Johnson, 27, has
now been charged with cruelty to children in the first degree.The
charge was added over the weekend after he was arrested Friday and
charged with murder in the death of the toddler, Melanie Haynes.According
to sheriff's officials, Johnson was baby-sitting the child Tuesday when
deputies were called to the residence on Aspen Drive on a report of a
child not breathing and unresponsive.The child was transported to
Memorial University Medical Center, where she died about 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Johnson is being held in the Effingham County Jail, pending a bond hearing in Superior Court.
Ehsanipoor said additional charges against Johnson are expected.

A Rincon man has been charged with the death of Melanie Haynes, a 2-year-old Rincon child.

Effingham County sheriff investigators arrested Kevin Johnson, 27, Friday night on murder charges after autopsy results showed the toddler's death was caused by blunt force trauma to the head and multiple other injuries, Effingham County sheriff's spokesman David Ehsanipoor said.

Johnson was babysitting the child Tuesday when deputies were called to the 30 Aspen Drive residence shortly after 9:30 p.m. on a report of an unresponsive child who was not breathing. Deputies started CPR, and the child was taken to Memorial University Medical Center, where she died about 5 p.m. Wednesday.

The injuries to the toddler were brutal, Ehsanipoor said.
"This crime is particularly heinous, especially since it was committed against an innocent child," he said.
Johnson is not the child's father, but is the boyfriend of the child's mother, Ehsanipoor said.
Johnson was alone with the child at the time of assault, deputies reported. No other children were in the home.
"The child's father was serving overseas in the United States Army at the time of the crime," Ehsanipoor said. He has since returned.
Tuesday's assault on Melanie Haynes may not have been the first case of abuse, deputies reported.
"We are investigating possible episodes of previous abuse," Ehsanipoor said.
The Effingham County sheriff's department criminal investigation division is continuing to investigate.
Johnson is being held in the Effingham County Jail pending a bond hearing.

Man accused of murdering toddler denied bond
Updated:
Mar 29, 2010 9:13 AM CDT

SPRINGFIELD, GA (WTOC) - A man accused of murdering an Effingham County toddler is going to stay behind bars.

Kevin Johnson is charged with the murder of two year old Melanie Haynes.

When Johnson took his seat in an Effingham County courtroom Thursday morning, all eyes were on the father of the little girl he's accused of murdering.

Sergeant Kevin Haynes came to court in his Army dress uniform. He's a 3rd ID soldier, he was in Afghanistan when his daughter was killed.

He says he's making sure he gets justice for his little girl.

Effingham County Sheriff's Office investigator Michelle Buchmeyer told the Judge John Turner that Johnson was babysitting the little girl at their home on Aspen Drive, while her mother was a work. On February 9, Johnson called 911, Melanie wasn't breathing. The next day she died from severe head injuries.

Buchmeyer said she had two skull fractures, one of her eye bones was broken and she had been violently shaken.

Buchmeyer said Johnson told deputies a variety of stories about how Melanie got hurt, that she fell off the back of a couch, that she fell in the bathtub, then he told them he was spinning her around in her room and she hit her head on the dresser. Investigators say those stories don't match up to Melanie's injuries.

"It would not be consistent with falling off the couch because her nose was not broken," Buchmeyer told the judge.

She said after Johnson was locked up, he told more stories.

"Then he said we had ruined his social life," Buchmeyer testified.

Johnson's social life will be on hold for quite some time. Judge Turner denied bond and sent the case to a grand jury.

Melanie's father was whisked away from the courthouse, he had nothing to say.

Johnson's attorney pointed out that this was his first arrest. The 27-year old served four years in the army and was born in Panama. His mother now lives in Port Wentworth.

Melanie's mother was not in court. She has moved back to California to be with her family.

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I just don't believe these moms are innocent. They live with these men, they bed them, they know their temperament. They know they are cruel and will harm their children.

These moms need to be arrested also. If they don't know their children are being abused, they should know. They need to be arrested and charged.

JMO.