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The 5-year-old non-verbal autistic girl found dead on her South Carolina vacation died of injuries consistent with drowning, according to an autopsy released Friday.

The examination found Saylor Hayes died of pulmonary edema, a condition where fluid builds up in the lungs making it hard to breathe, WMBF reported, citing the Georgetown County Coroner's Office.

There were no signs of visible trauma to the little girl's body, which was found Aug. 31 in a waterway not far from her family's vacation home on Pawleys Island, according to the autopsy conducted by Medical University of South Carolina.

3 Saylor Hayes, a nonverbal 5-year-old girl, disappeared and was later found dead after wandering from a rental home wearing only a bathing suit in South Carolina on Aug. 30. Georgetown County Sheriff's Office/Facebook

No official cause of death has been determined yet - and the final autopsy report will be released in around eight to 10 weeks.

Saylor, who is from Virginia, was found wearing a bathing suit and a strap attached to her ankle which resembled a child's wrist tether, GCCO said.

The initial autopsy results come just days after the 5-year-old's parents, John Herb Hayes III, 70, and his wife Geordyn Nichole Hayes, 31, were arrested in Tennessee on Tuesday.

3 Geordyn Nichole Hayes is seen in an undated mugshot. Hayes, the mother of 5-year-old Saylor Hayes, was arrested on child abuse and neglect charges involving another child earlier this year. Carter County Sheriff's Office

Both parents face charges of unlawfully placing a child at risk and willfully abandoning a child in connection with the death of their daughter.

They have been accused of putting Saylor  at an unreasonable risk of harm affecting her life and safety by failing to provide supervision and safeguards appropriate for a severely nonverbal, autistic, five-year-old child with a known affinity to water and a history of elopement,  the arrest affidavit states.

The couple, who have been married for five years, waived extradition in a Tennessee court Thursday and were relea

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