Carterville (WSIL) Much more bearable high temperatures today as everyone across the area is in the low to mid 80s. We re still about 5 degrees above our normal average.
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Teenager Mikaela Haynes. She committed suicide rather than return to the care of her father, a convicted rapist.
Mikaela Haynes was fourteen years old when she took her own life after being repeatedly forced to spend time with a convicted child rapist, her father Charles Haynes. Haynes is currently in prison in Missouri serving a sentence for raping Mikaela’s half-sister, Melissa, when she was a young teen.
The nightmare for this family began when Melissa gave her mother a note disclosing that her stepfather, Cynthia Randolph’s husband Charles Haynes, had been abusing her for years. Randolph left with her three children, reported the abuse to the police, and filed for divorce. Haynes was arrested, charged, and pleaded guilty to sodomizing Melissa.