A MAN has been arrested by gardaí investigating the death of a seven-week-old girl.
It is the second arrest within 24 hours after a woman was released in the early hours of yesterday after being held for 15 hours. A file is being prepared for the DPP.
The man was arrested late on Monday and was still being questioned yesterday about the death of baby Shkira Farrell-Scanlon. He can be held for up to 24 hours.
He was arrested at the home of relatives in Sligo town and taken to Sligo Garda station.
Shkira died in Sligo General Hospital on August 18th. She was brought in in a coma by her parents Rosana Farrell and Michael Scanlon to the accident and emergency department from their home in the town’s Cranmore estate three days earlier.
The parents told hospital staff they believed Shkira suffered head injuries when she fell to the floor from her Moses basket in their bedroom in their house in Devins Drive. Three people were taken in for questioning last week and later released.