Murder charges filed

According to the Ledger Independent, the parents of infant Kaylee Buchanan are facing murder charges related to the death of the child, according to documents filed in Fleming County Circuit Court Friday.
Nearly six months after Kaylee Buchanan died at a Lexington hospital, a Fleming County grand jury indicted Terry Joe Buchanan, 31, and Jessica Marie Allen, 22, on one count of murder and one count of first-degree criminal abuse each. Both individuals could face a maximum of life in prison if convicted.
On July 20, 2008, 4-month-old Kaylee Buchanan was transported by ambulance from a Ewing residence on Connector Road (Kentucky 165) to University of Kentucky Hospital, where she died approximately three days later, according to investigators familiar with the case. The case officially became a homicide investigation late last month after the Fayette County Coroner's Office determined that the death was caused by "blunt force head trauma."
The criminal abuse count of the indictments alleges both defendants "intentionally abused Kaylee Buchanan, who was less than 12 years of age, or aided and assisted another, by causing serious physical injury to said child, when her right femur and fibula were broken, which required medical treatment."
The abuse allegedly occurred "on or about the period of July 9-13, 2008," according to the indictment.
The murder count alleges "on or about July 20, 2008" the defendants "struck, or aided and assisted another, to strike Kaylee Buchanan's head one or more times, which resulted in her death."