{"id":8948,"date":"2014-08-26T04:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=8948"},"modified":"2014-11-20T15:18:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T21:18:35","slug":"tbi-reports-benton-county-man-arrested-for-abuse-death-of-infant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2014\/08\/26\/tbi-reports-benton-county-man-arrested-for-abuse-death-of-infant\/","title":{"rendered":"TBI reports Benton County Man Arrested for Abuse, Death of Infant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-121927\" title=\"Tennessee Bureau of Investigation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tbi-logo.gif\" alt=\"Tennessee Bureau of Investigation\" width=\"158\" height=\"150\" \/><strong>Jackson, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation yielded warrants that led to the arrest today of a 25-year old Benton County man, charged with first degree murder and aggravated child abuse of a seven-month-old child.<\/p>\n<p>On August 22nd, 2014, at the request of 24th District Attorney Hansel McAdams, TBI Special Agents, with the assistance of deputies from the Benton County Sheriff\u2019s Department and the Department of Children\u2019s Services, investigated the death of Joseph Hilliard.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_269290\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Westlee-Waylon-Yates.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-269290\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-269290\" title=\"Westlee Waylon Yates from Benton County was arrested Monday, August 25th for murder and abuse of a seven month old child.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Westlee-Waylon-Yates-480x306.jpg\" alt=\"Westlee Waylon Yates from Benton County was arrested Monday, August 25th for murder and abuse of a seven month old child.\" width=\"480\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-269290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Westlee Waylon Yates from Benton County was arrested Monday, August 25th for murder and abuse of a seven month old child.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->On Friday, the infant\u2019s mother called 911, saying her son was unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p>The child was transported from his home on Liberty Church Road in Holladay to Camden General Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, August 25th, arrest warrants were issued for Westlee Waylon Yates, the mother\u2019s boyfriend, for the murder and abuse of the seven-month-old. With the assistance of Benton County Sheriff\u2019s deputies, TBI Agents arrested Yates without incident at a residence at West Little Richland Road in Humphreys County.<\/p>\n<p>Yates was booked in the Benton County jail, where he is being held without bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson, TN &#8211; The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation yielded warrants that led to the arrest today of a 25-year old Benton County man, charged with first degree murder and aggravated child abuse of a seven-month-old child. On August 22nd, 2014, at the request of 24th District Attorney Hansel McAdams, TBI Special Agents, with the assistance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[9521,9526,9520,196,9528,9524,8675,9227,9522,199,5109,722,9525,1842,9523,1841,9056,9519,9527],"class_list":["post-8948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-24th-district-attorney","tag-911-call","tag-aggravated-child-abuse","tag-benton-county","tag-benton-county-jail","tag-benton-county-sheriffs-office","tag-bond","tag-dcs","tag-hansel-mcadams","tag-humphreys-county","tag-infant-death","tag-jackson-tn","tag-joseph-hilliard","tag-tbi","tag-tbi-special-agents","tag-tennessee-bureau-of-investigation","tag-tennessee-department-of-childrens-services","tag-warrants","tag-westlee-waylon-yates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8949,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948\/revisions\/8949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}