The child known as 'Baby Doe' whose remains were found on an island in Boston Harbor has been identified after a long and exhaustive search. The girl's body was found in a trash bag on June 25 by a woman who was walking her dog on Deer Island, Boston Globe reports.
Horrifying details about the girl's short life and death were revealed in court Monday morning, Sept. 21 as her mom, Rachelle Bond, and Bond's boyfriend, Michael McCarthy, were arraigned after their arrest on Friday.
Bella Bond was killed in her bedroom by her mother's boyfriend - a man
who was convinced the toddler was possessed by demons, a prosecutor told
a Boston courtroom on Monday.
McCarthy, 35, is being held without bond on a murder charge. Bond, 40, is being held on $1 million bail after authorities charged her as an accessory after the fact. Assistant District Attorney David Deakin told a Dorchester District Court judge on Monday that a "lifelong friend" of McCarthy's broke the case open. The friend told authorities that he had lived with Bond and McCarthy for a week or two just several months before her death, and was "appalled by their treatment" of Bella.
"What troubled him the most was that both of them, particularly Mr.
McCarthy, had locked the girl in the closet for 30 minutes to an hour
while she screamed to be let out," Deakin said. "Mr. McCarthy told
the lifelong friend that she was possessed by demons, and that's why she
deserved that treatment." The treatment escalated into deadly force
sometime in late May, Deakin said, when one night, Bella refused to go
to bed. "Mr. McCarthy said he was going to go to the back bedroom
and calm her down," Deakin said. When Bond went to check on them, he
continued, "She found Mr. McCarthy standing over Bella... with his hand
near her abdomen." Bella wasn't talking.
Bond noticed her face was swollen, Deakin said. "She went to her
daughter and picked her up and she told police that she knew at that
moment that her daughter was dead." No manner of death has been
determined by a medical examiner. Suffocation or asphyxiation, which
could have resulted from blunt force to her stomach, wouldn't
necessarily leave signs of physical trauma, Deakin said.
McCarthy allegedly told Bond that Bella "was a demon anyway. It was her time to die." He then allegedly threatened to kill Bond if she reported anything to police. Both Bond and McCarthy have prior criminal records and were involved in drugs, Deakin said. They will return to court on Oct. 20. The friend who tipped off authorities told them that he texted McCarthy, asking where Bella was after noticing a resemblance between the billboards put up across Boston seeking information about a "Baby Doe." The friend said McCarthy claimed Bella had been taken away by child services, who twice visited Bella over the course of her lifetime but left her in Bond's custody.
After killing Bella, according to Deakin, McCarthy stuffed her body in a trash bag and kept it in a refrigerator for days before dumping her in the Boston Harbor. When her body was found, she was dressed in white pants with black polka dots and a zebra-print blanket was left in the trash bag. The woman who discovered Bella's body noticed the bag after her dog began pawing at it.
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