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Millie Martin
A 30-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a 15-month-old Enniskillen baby who passed away on Friday.

Millie Martin died on Friday evening in a Belfast hospital, following an alleged attack at a house in Glebe Park in the Co Fermanagh town.

The house remained sealed off on Monday, as police tried to piece together how the little girl was murdered.

It is understood that Millie was known to the Western Health Trust, but she was not on the child protection register. Social workers are continuing to help the PSNI with their inquiries.

The man charged will appear at Omagh Magistrates Court on Tuesday morning.

Investigators have refused to disclose the results of post-mortem tests on Millie.

'Unbelievable'

"The idea that this could happen a couple of doors down from where you live is unbelievable," neighbour Alistair McKee told UTV.

"I actually saw them as a normal family and used to see them out playing in the garden during the summer. The idea that anything like that could happen is incredible."

Another neighbour Francis Orman said he felt "shock, anger, sadness that a little child who has hardly been on the earth has been attacked and brutally murdered."

Over the weekend, Millie's grieving family expressed their heartbreak following the death of their "little angel".

The child was first admitted to the Erne Hospital in Enniskillen on Thursday night before being transferred to Belfast. She died in intensive care at the Royal Victoria Hospital.

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At 00:25 on 15 December 2009, joanne mc atamney wrote:
It is so sad for that little child to be brutually murdred in her own home godbless her and rip little angel xxx
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