The suit details that Harmony’s family reported concerns to DCYF after she was found with a black eye but were met with little response.

New Hampshire social workers ignored a litany of warning signs that a 5-year-old girl was being physically abused by her father prior to the child’s death, the slain girl’s mother alleged in a negligence lawsuit filed Friday against the state.

New Hampshire’s Division for Children, Youth and Families failed Harmony Montgomery in the months before her death as an agency investigator ignored clear warning signs she was being abused, according to the lawsuit filed Friday.

Crystal Sorey filed the lawsuit on her daughter’s behalf on Friday, months after the girl’s father was convicted of murdering her in a case that has sparked public outrage