DOCS workers visited home for 20 minutes, court told Murder trial: Tanilla Warrick-Deaves. A few weeks before central coast toddler Tanilla Warrick-Deaves was allegedly murdered by her mother's boyfriend, community services caseworkers went to the home after neighbours allegedly witnessed the little girl being whipped, a court has heard. The caseworkers reportedly stayed for 20 minutes and then left. Two-year-old Tanilla died in hospital on August 28, 2011, after Warren Ross, 29, allegedly inflicted a severe blow to her head three days earlier in the bathroom of their home on Stonehaven Street, Watanobi. Mr Ross is now on trial for murder. The court has heard that the alleged attack followed weeks of abuse by Mr Ross, much of it allegedly carried out in the name of "toilet training." On Thursday, a former neighbour of Tanilla and her family, Paul Coker, told the NSW Supreme Court that he heard Mr Ross "whipping" the little girl a few weeks before her death after she had soiled herself. "I could hear a little girl screaming and the load voice of Warren Ross," Mr Coker said of the incident. Warren Ross was scolding the child for pottying throughout the house ... the child had soiled itself. He said, 'you go poo in the toilet ... you sit there, you don't move' and he kept on with this type of conversation with the child. Mr Coker said his wife had asked him to see what was going on, to time it and then report back. "Every time he was scolding the child for soiling throughout the house I could hear whipping and the child screaming," he said. It sounded like someone being whipped by a belt or something of that nature. Mr Coker told the court that after about 30 to 35 minutes, Tanilla's mother, Donna Deaves said "enough" and the whipping stopped. Two days later, Mr Coker said, two women came to the house, who he later learned were from the Department of Community Services. The women stayed for about 20 minutes and then left, Mr Coker said. He said he overheard them taking to Mr Ross and Ms Deaves about "clutter" in the house, and clearing more space.