Ontario corrections officials have denied a request to transfer registered child sex offender Daniel Senecal to a women's jail as the 25-year-old awaits a bail hearing in another case, this one involving an attack on a girl in Welland.

Senecal was released earlier this year after serving time for the sexual assault of a 12-year-old in the Niagara Region city. The latest charges involve a three-year-old over the Labour Day weekend. Niagara police said the girl was sexually assaulted after someone broke into the family home.

"The request to transfer facilities was denied," Oleksandr Shvets, a spokesperson for Ontario Solicitor General Michael Kerzner, told CBC News in an email on Friday.

According to police, the child — referred to by supporters of the family as "Little E" — suffered s

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