Posted on 09/19/2015 7:18:08 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Two charged in ‘Baby Doe’ death
A 35-year-old Dorchester man allegedly killed the cherubic 2 1⁄2-year-old girl who came to be known as “Baby Doe” because he “supposedly thought the child had demons in her,” a tipster in Billerica told police during a phone call Wednesday, breaking open a heartbreaking murder case that touched millions around the world.
Police records obtained by the Herald show the big break in the “Baby Doe” investigation came at 12:27 p.m., when an unidentified tipster told police the little girl’s mother, Rachelle Bond, had admitted to the caller’s brother that her boyfriend, Michael P. McCarthy, “killed her child.”
Working off of that information, investigators were finally able to identify the little girl, whose discarded body was found in a trash bag on Deer Island, as Bella Bond and arrest McCarthy, 35, on a murder charge and Rachelle Bond, 40, on a charge of being an accessory after the fact.
“It was a tip called into our offices at our homicide (unit), that really brought this case to where it is today,” Boston police Commissioner William B. Evans said yesterday. “We’re always out there saying any little information, no matter how little it is, it’s useful. I think we’re seeing that today.”
The “Baby Doe” case made international headlines after her body was found near the waterline by a passerby June 25. The computer-generated image of a little, brown-haired girl that was released by investigators and plastered on billboards across the state made the rounds on national news programs and had been viewed online by 60 million people, state police said earlier this month.
The media blitz resulted in tens of thousands of tips, investigators say, with leads coming in from across the country and from as far away as Europe.
The little girl’s grief-stricken father, Joseph Amoroso, told the Herald Bella was conceived in a tent at Occupy Boston and he left Rachelle Bond, his former girlfriend, after finding out she had been arrested for prostitution.
“That’s the story behind how me and Rachelle made this beautiful child,” Amoroso said of their Occupy Boston tryst, adding that he believes Bond had nothing to do with their daughter’s death.
“She told me the whole story,” Amoroso said. “She was very emotional, sincere through the whole thing, and I believe her. I believe her — that it was this man who murdered our daughter, murdered a 2-year-old.”
His daughter’s full name, Amoroso said, is Bella Nevaeh Amoroso Bond.
“Her name was Bella ... This child, whose very name means beauty, was murdered,” Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said during an emotional press conference yesterday. “At just shy of three years old, Bella Bond was a true innocent.”
Several times, Conley declined to provide further details on the case, deferring to McCarthy and Bond’s Monday arraignment in Dorchester District Court.
He also said that the state medical examiner was still working to determine a cause of death.
State Police Col. Richard McKeon praised the tireless work of investigators, who never gave up hope in their search for the one clue that would help bring those responsible to justice.
“These men and women who have investigated this case have given her name back,” McKeon said. “Now we will give her justice.”
This is your dad on drugs.
“People tell me they take drugs because they ‘amplify your personality’. Yes...but what if you’re an a—hole?”—Bill Cosby (I know, ironic...)
This is your dad on drugs.
The dad bailed when he learned the woman he spawned with had been arrested for prostitution. The murderer was “Mom’s Boyfriend.”
Tragic from every angle.
Born to a whore working the Occupy tents, poor child never had a chance.
Figures.
And our peerless leader and his upcoming theological guest will concern themselves with global warming and redistribution of wealth this coming week.
Leni
The mother of your child is a prostitute, and probably a drug abuser, so you decide your best choice is to leave her (good choice) and to leave your daughter (bad choice) and then you proclaim yourself grief-stricken?
I know I sound like a broken record, but it is ALWAYS, ‘Mommy’s New Boyfriend’ who kills these innocent kids. Infuriating! Women are SO stupid.
Glad that ‘Mommy’ is being charged as well.
I am betting MOST people today find this guy a sympathetic character. In fact, I would bet they have more sympathy for him than they do for the dead child. After all, he was part of an important social movement, while his deceased daughter was just one of those burdens Planned Parenthood wants to take off our hands.
That’s broken record worth playing as often as necessary.
I will gladly donate two .308 cartridges to the cleansing effort!
Bella Bond is in God’s loving hands.
Too east, IMHO. This is "Give me twenty minutes and a baseball bat" territory.
I’m surprised he put down the talking stick long enough to conceive a child.
When I was a single mom and dating I never brought any guy around my kids until I knew them pretty well, then I would invite them over for dinner. There’s too many nuts out there.
That was my exact reaction.
For some reason, women think they can bounce from man to man and that their new man will accept their children from other men. In most cases, not true. There are exceptions where a mature, established man may assume paternity for children not his own but that usually entails a long term relationship commitment (i.e. marriage and formal adoption) and the woman assuming the bulk of the day-to-day care and the traditional role of a wife/mother.
In other words, the partying, free-living days of the mother are OVER.
I am surprised it took this long to figure out. The sketch guy did a great job with the likeness to her. Tragic and blame goes right to the Deval Patrick administration. He could not be reached for comment.
I agree. I can’t seem to summons up sympathy for this “father”. If the facts in the article are correct, he is not the one who called in the tip, he didn’t report to the authorities that the mother won’t tell him where is child is when he’s tried every day for 3 months to visit his child, and the kid’s likeness was plastered all over the news for months, and he didn’t even have an inkling that might be the child he fathered?
She was conceived at Occupy Boston. You can’t make this stuff up!
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