The toddler was identified as Bella Bond on Friday, nearly three months after her remains were found in a trash bag that washed up on a Boston Harbor beach.
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Michael McCarthy, Rachelle Bond’s boyfriend who turned out not to be Bella’s dad, has been charged with murder for Bella’s death.
Both defendants are expected to be arraigned Monday.
“I know with all my heart that Rachelle Bond would never, ever do anything to hurt anybody”, Amoroso told the station. “I was with the woman. This is the mother of my child”, he said. Repeated attempts to reach relatives of McCarthy have been unsuccessful. So the question remains, how did Amoroso report allegations of neglect when he himself just said he left Florida in August to meet his daughter for the first time?
He said Bond told him this week what happened to their child, and stayed with him in Lynn on Thursday night.
Amoroso says he believes Bond has told him the truth and he doesn’t believe she would have harmed Bella.
Amoroso said Bond told him that McCarthy kept reminding her afterward that Bella was a “child of Satan”.
The Associated Press could not locate a phone listing for Amoroso. After months of not knowing her identity, police were finally able to identify the girl as Bella Bond.
The girl’s body was found dead in a plastic bag on a Deer Island beach.
Investigators have not publicly speculated on a motive or a cause of death in Bella’s case, saying more will be disclosed at the arraignments.
Thirty-two-year-old Joseph Amoroso spoke to the Boston Globe about his young daughter, who he never met in person, and how he learned of her tragic death. “This child, whose very name means beauty, was murdered”. Sources told 7News that McCarthy punched Bella in the stomach multiple times.
Authorities have released the names of the five victims involved in a Jessamine County crash early Sunday morning.Jessamine County Sheriff’s Office responded to River Road to a single vehicle crash that sent five people to UK Hospital.Officers say a 1994 Chevy Tahoe, driven by Frank Peel, 19, of Nicholasville, was traveling on River Road when he lost control of the vehicle and rolled down an embankment.
“The tragedy of her death is compounded by the fact that her short life ended not by illness or accident, but we believe by an act of violence in the very place where she should have felt safest, in her home”. “The cheeks of Bella were much chubbier”.
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Bond had a history of drug and prostitution arrests.
