BELL COUNTY, Ky. (WVLT) – Another person has been indicted in the death of Elena Hembree, a 17-month-old out of Kentucky who was the victim in “one of the most severe cases of abuse” former Commonwealth Attorney Lisa Fugate had ever seen.
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The young girl was taken to the Middlesboro ARH hospital in the summer of 2023 before being flown to East Tennessee Children’s Hospital in Knoxville, where she died. Investigators believe she was abused and had previously charged her mother — Erica Lawson — in her death…