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ST. GEORGE — Further details were revealed during a preliminary hearing held Monday about what caused a 2-year-old to die last summer.
The defendant, Randy Holt Lessing, 29, appeared in 5th District Court for a preliminary hearing, held to determine if the evidence gathered was sufficient to proceed with charges filed against him: reckless child abuse homicide, a first-degree felony and obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony.
As previously reported by St. George News, on July 19, 2023, police received a call that an unconscious 2-year-old child had been admitted to St. George Regional Hospital, according to the probable cause statement filed at the time of Lessing's arrest.
Physicians reportedly told detectives that the toddler, Emmaline Mitchell, had sustained significant trauma to her brain and head. Due to the severity of her injuries, she was flown from St. George to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, where she died five days later.
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