A New Orleans girl going through a manslaughter cost is accused of abusing her boyfriend’s mentally disabled brother, ravenous and beating him for months, earlier than permitting him to die from an untreated stab wound to his leg, in response to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s workplace.
Kyana Traylor, 37, usually saved 32-year-old George Singleton confined to a grimy half-bathroom in her Terrytown townhouse, the door to which was generally blocked with a washer, in response to Sheriff’s Detective Ryan Vaught.
Singleton died Feb. 18, 2023, of blood loss after he by chance stabbed himself whereas attempting to open a can of meals, and nobody sought medical consideration or police assist for 12 hours, in response to authorities.
Kyana Traylor was booked with manslaughter within the 2023 demise of George Singleton.
“The coroner mentioned this man may have lived had you referred to as 911. He may have lived had you set a tourniquet on his leg. He may have lived,” Jefferson Parish Assistant District Lawyer Linsday Truhe mentioned throughout a listening to Wednesday in Traylor’s case.
Traylor was arrested July 26 by the Sheriff’s Workplace, 4 months after New Orleans police booked her with second-degree homicide within the taking pictures demise of Singleton’s brother, her boyfriend, Robert Singleton, 32.
These costs had been refused by a grand jury, in response to the Orleans Parish District Lawyer’s Workplace.
However a Jefferson Parish choose on Wednesday dominated there was sufficient possible trigger to proceed holding Traylor for manslaughter and cruelty to the infirm in reference to George Singleton’s demise.
When reached by cellphone Wednesday night time, the Singleton brothers’ 61-year-old mom mentioned she misses her sons. The lady, who is just not being recognized by The Instances-Picayune, mentioned she disagrees with the legal costs in opposition to Traylor, who offered take care of her.
Investigators, nonetheless, mentioned they believe Traylor focused not solely the Singleton brothers however their mom, as nicely, to money in on insurance coverage insurance policies that she obtained on all three.
“Everybody in that home is severely disabled,” Truhe mentioned. “[Traylor] invited them into her residence, and he or she systematically abused these individuals.”
A 911 name
Jefferson Parish deputies had been dispatched to Traylor’s residence in 200 block of Wright Avenue in Terrytown in February 2023 after the division acquired a 911 name at 10 p.m. reporting a demise on the residence, mentioned Vaught, who testified in Wednesday’s listening to.
They discovered George Singleton lifeless, mendacity curled up on the ground, simply contained in the doorway. Traylor lived within the townhouse with George Singleton, Robert Singleton, her kids and the Singleton brothers’ mom, who’s partially paralyzed from a stroke.
Traylor informed deputies that George Singleton had by chance stabbed himself in leg whereas attempting to make use of a knife to open a can of meals. Singleton was mentally and bodily disabled, autistic and had a seizure dysfunction, in response to Vaught.
Traylor additionally informed investigators he had an “consuming dysfunction,” and was recognized to devour uncooked meat or attempt to open canned meals along with his mouth, authorities mentioned.
Traylor informed deputies that George Singleton had stabbed himself about an hour or two earlier than the 911 name at 10 p.m., Vaught mentioned. Traylor claimed to have dressed the wound, cleaned up the toilet the place the stabbing occurred, after which taken the remainder of the household, aside from Singleton and his mom, out for meals.
“Once they returned, that is once they discovered the decedent mendacity on the ground,” Vaught mentioned.
Denied meals
An post-mortem decided that George Singleton died of a 5-inch stab wound that hit the femoral artery in his thigh, Vaught mentioned.
The forensic pathologist seen different cuts and gashes on his thighs that had been in varied levels of therapeutic. George Singleton additionally had bruises on his shoulder and accidents to his head that Vaught mentioned backed up claims made by the Singletons’ mom on the night time of his demise.
“[She] informed me Ms. Traylor wouldn’t present meals on a constant foundation, that she and George would usually go hungry,” testified Vaught, who mentioned that the Singletons’ mom couldn’t stroll or transfer about with out help.
George Singleton’s post-mortem revealed that he suffered from acute hunger and persistent malnutrition, Vaught mentioned. He’d misplaced 44 kilos within the 4 months that he lived with Traylor, in response to the detective.
If George Singleton was caught within the kitchen or upstairs, rummaging for meals, he was overwhelmed with a brush or a mop deal with and compelled into the downstairs toilet, in response to Vaught.
“He had contemporary bedsores, indicative of him being positioned on a rest room or onerous seating space for lengthy durations of time,” Vaught mentioned.
A deadly taking pictures
Traylor wasn’t arrested on the night time of George Singleton’s demise. However the case in Jefferson Parish picked up steam after New Orleans police accused her of fatally taking pictures Robert Singleton on Feb. 11, 2024, at his Jourdan Avenue residence in New Orleans.
Investigators seized Traylor’s cellphone, in response to Vaught, who obtained a warrant to go looking the machine. On the cellphone, he mentioned he discovered pictures and movies of George Singleton from the day of his demise and the months main as much as it.
Whereas Traylor informed deputies he’d stabbed himself solely an hour or two earlier than the ten p.m. 911 name, a picture in her cellphone reveals he was truly injured at 9:34 a.m., in response to Vaught.
“Within the cellphone, there was a stay image of Singleton bare, seated on a rest room within the downstairs toilet, affected by a stab wound to his leg. The wound is bleeding and there’s a puddle of blood forming across the base of the bathroom,” he mentioned.
George Singleton bled out for 12 hours earlier than dying. He would have survived with medical intervention, authorities mentioned.
There have been different pictures that confirmed the filthy dwelling situations within the toilet, the piles of trash round him and the development of his hunger, Vaught mentioned.
“You may see via the images the state of decline,” Vaught mentioned. “He was heavier and had extra colour to his pores and skin. As the images go on, his face is swollen, blackened eyes like he’d been overwhelmed. He begins getting thinner in addition to the colour begins to vary in his pores and skin.”
Along with manslaughter and cruelty, Traylor was booked with failure to hunt help for an individual struggling severe bodily damage.
Traylor’s lawyer, Michael Idoyaga, argued the proof pointed to an unintentional demise.
Legal Commissioner Paul Schneider dominated there was possible trigger to proceed holding her and denied motions to scale back her $650,000 bail.
*This story consists of an replace with info from the Orleans Parish District Lawyer’s Workplace.
