THE FAMILY of murdered toddler Millie Martin had been in touch with social services in Enniskillen, but her name was not among those included on the child protection register it emerged yesterday.
The Western Health and Social Care Trust, which covers Fermanagh, Tyrone and Derry, is helping the PSNI with its investigation and has not commented officially on the case since first reports of the assault last week.
Senior social workers are assisting detectives and relevant documentation is reported to have been gathered and “sealed”.
The western trust said it could not comment on questions from The Irish Times relating to any contacts between social workers who are members of so-called Gateway Teams and the Martin family.
There are three such teams in the western area and they are the initial point of contact between families and social work professionals.
A 30-year-old man who was arrested as part of the police investigation into the death of the 15-month old girl on Friday remained in custody yesterday evening. The man, who is not the baby’s father, was arrested in Belfast. Police were granted two time extensions to question him.
No details have been released arising from a postmortem of Millie who died after a serious and sustained assault at her home in Glebe Park in the Old Tempo Road area of Enniskillen on Thursday evening.
Police have asked the Courts Service as well as health and social services professionals “for operational reasons” not to release any information relating to the case.
Details of her many injuries are said to have deeply shocked police and medical professionals investigating the case.
The Belfast hospital where she died has carried out a skeletal survey, but the results of this procedure are also being withheld.
The incident has stunned the local community as well as police investigators and those in health and social services locally.
Following the assault, the toddler was taken first to the Erne hospital in the town where she was treated and resuscitated before being transferred to the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children in Belfast where she was declared dead on Friday afternoon.
Neighbours in the quiet Chanterhill area of Enniskillen where the Martin family lives are said to be traumatised by the death. Soft toys and floral tributes have been laid at the police cordon which has been maintained around the house.
The child’s mother, Rachel, and grandmother accompanied the child to both hospitals and were present with other family members who had gathered when she was finally pronounced dead after her life-support was switched off.
In a statement they said they were suffering “unbearable grief”.