INDIANAPOLIS -- Eight days before 3-year-old TaJanay Bailey died last month, a home therapist argued she and her brother should be taken from her mother, according to a document included in Department of Child Services records.

The document was among 1,473 pages that the DCS released Thursday regarding TaJanay, who police said was beaten repeatedly at her mother's Indianapolis apartment over several days and died Nov. 27 of blunt force trauma to her head, neck and abdomen.

TaJanay's mother, Charity Bailey, and Charity's boyfriend, Lawrence Green, both 20, were charged with murder and neglect. The girl had been in foster care for most of her life because of allegations of abuse, but the DCS returned her to her mother for a trial reunification on Oct. 31, authorities said.

James Payne, director of the DCS, said Thursday the documents show missed opportunities to save TaJanay's life. However, he said he doesn't believe anyone at DCS is guilty of malfeasance or neglect.

"In my opinion, this was an error in judgment, and I do not see in the future any disciplinary action resulting from this," Payne said.

The documents include an e-mail from a home therapist working with TaJanay and her mother. In the message, sent to someone working on TaJanay's case and dated Nov. 19, the therapist wrote: "It is my assessment that the trial reunification is not working and the children need to be removed."

Another document in the file discussed filthy conditions in the apartment where Charity Bailey, Green and the children lived. It also expressed concerns about disciplinary methods that were used.

The documents also reveal that Charity Bailey alleged she was in a physically abusive relationship and told authorities that she feared for her life, 6News' Derrik Thomas reported.

Charity Bailey, according to the documents, told caseworkers that Green used cocaine and marijuana and used family food stamps to pay for drugs. A caseworker asked Bailey to get a restraining order against Green, but Bailey did not, the documents show.

Payne said social workers and people from other agencies made seven or eight visits to TaJanay's home in the month before she died. They were concerned about issues of poverty, the fact that the family had no bus passes and that they lived in a dangerous apartment complex.

"There were concerns, but none of them rose to the level that would suggest that they were prepared to say immediately remove this child because of a safety concern," Payne said.

DCS Deputy Director of Field Operations Stephanie Yoder said social workers saw no overt signs of injury to TaJanay or aggression toward the child.

A review of the case shows instances where domestic violence allegations were recanted or later denied by the couple, Yoder said, noting that the allegations were not "aggressively pursued."

Payne said the review found no documentation that the agency gave police a May 2006 report of abuse and neglect involving TaJanay. He also said his agency did not know about a domestic violence call officers answered at the home in November.

If it had, that would have raised a "red flag" to department workers, he said.

Payne promised a more thorough report in the next two weeks. It will include more information on what his department has learned from the case.

Last week, juvenile court records relating to TaJanay -- 186 pages -- revealed that the girl allegedly endured abuse at several points in her life, dating back to 2004.

Authorities said she was repeatedly beaten for wetting her pants and soiling herself.

Charity Bailey's 6-month-old son was put into state custody after TaJanay's death. Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi said Charity Bailey is 12 weeks pregnant with a third child, and he said the state would seek custody of that child, too, when it is born.

Brizzi said Friday that DCS failed TaJanay and that foster parents and state caseworkers would be interviewed to find out why. Brizzi stopped short of saying DCS staff acted criminally but said foster parents of other children have contacted his office to complain that the state agency, despite extensive reforms, places youngsters in danger.