McCarthy and Bond have both pleaded not guilty.
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The pair are also both charged with improper disposal of a body. It wasn’t until last week that the girl was identified.
Prosecutors said the break came earlier last week when a family friend called in a tip.
New details about the case emerged during Monday’s proceeding. Amoroso said that Bond wound up sending a text to someone else letting them know that the toddler was dead, and that person reached out to police.
Amoroso said he has been in Florida for a couple of years and returned to Massachusetts in August hoping to reconnect with his daughter, whom he never met. He said Bond told him last week what happened to their child, and stayed with him in Lynn on Thursday night.
Today, Rachelle Bond, the mother of 2-year-old Bella Bond, and her boyfriend Michael McCarthy appeared in court in Boston for their arraignments.
“She asked Mr. McCarthy what he had done and he did not tell her, but he said, ‘She was a demon anyway”.
Assistant District Attorney David Deakin said Monday that police got the tip after Bond broke down in tears September 16 and told a friend of McCarthy that McCarthy had killed Bella.
According to the complaint, police interviewed McCarthy on Friday, and he told them that Bond had said the state took Bella sometime around Easter. McCarthy, 35, said he would go into the bedroom to calm her down, Deakin said. Bond told police McCarthy put Bella’s body in a bag and they later dumped it into Boston Harbor.
The tot became known as “Baby Doe” after police released a computer generated image of what she may have looked like in life.
Bella’s biological father, Joe Amoroso, who never met his daughter in person, sat on the front row, appearing to compose himself, tensing his jaw and pursing his lips at times. “You f-ing rot in hell!”
Prosecutors said a lifelong friend of McCarthy and Bond ultimately led investigators to the couple after noticing the child was no longer around.
Sprinsky was walking with Bond one day when Bond told him that she had recently quit using drugs. For the next few days, Bond and McCarthy used heroin before weighing down the bag and throwing it into the water.
Between 2001 and 2006 the DCF terminated parental rights for two of Bond’s older children.
Baker praised law enforcement officials who pursued the case and lamented that Bella “was stolen from all of us”. We are also grateful for the expertise of several outside laboratories, including scientists from the Customs and Border Protection agency, the University of North Texas, and IsoForensics Inc.in Utah.
Rachelle Bond wipes her eye as she is arraigned on charges of acting after the fact in helping to dispose of the body of her daughter. One child was adopted by a grandmother and the other was adopted by an unrelated family.
Over the weekend, my daughter asked me why the case of the murdered little girl, Bella Bond, was consuming the public. The examiner hasn’t ruled out a manner of death that includes asphyxiation and suffocation, Deakin said.
Suffolk County District Attorney A almost 3-year-old Boston girl named Bella (l.) was identified as ‘Baby Doe, ‘ the mystery toddler who was found dead on a Boston beach this summer.
Any legal charges for Amoroso would be in a “gray and murky area”, Tracy said.
“You’d have to show that he was trying to protect the mother by concealing the information she had given”, said Philip Tracy, a Boston defense attorney.
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Dorchester Municipal Court heard the child was killed in May after she refused to go to sleep and was misbehaving. Reporter: Police found books involving demons and death inside the home.
