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.”
Wood or aluminum!
With or without barbed-wire wrapping?
Maybe hobnails instead of barbed-wire?
Enjoy!
Liberals would lament that the unwanted child never had a chance to be sold off in parts.
I’m not sure how exactly this is the fault of the Deval Patrick administration. He is not now nor was he governor when this murder happened. Has the current Mass Gov Charlie Baker (R) been reached for comment? Not defending Patrick but that doesn’t make sense unless you have some proof perhaps of the Patrick administration having something to do with the DCF’s mishandling of the case when they supposedly investigated neglect complaints in 2012 and 2013. Then again in most states the DCF is a mess.
The state Department of Children and Families said it provided services for Bella in 2012 and 2013 when she was an infant following neglect complaints. It did not provide specific details.
Between 2001 and 2006, child welfare authorities terminated Bond’s parental rights over two other children, an agency official said. One is in custody of the maternal grandmother; the other was adopted by an unrelated family, the official said.
It stems from Patricks’ handling of the DCF and his people and his support for occupy Boston as well. Charlie Baker needs to get a handle on the DCF fast! Other kids have died as well.
One reason I married my now-ex (that sounds dumb, LOL!) in the first place was that he dated me (who is AWESOME in every way, LOL!) for 6 months before he let me meet his son and the two nephews I would possibly be taking on to raise.
Of course, my ex turned out to be a bad investment for ME, but at least those kids got raised properly; totally God’s hand in it!
And even though I sometimes WANTED to strangle them when they were bratty teens, I never did. :)
pretty much
The birth father,not sure if he was
on drugs like the other two but he
was apparently in the Occupy Movement,
You’d have to be on drugs to
believe that BS.
Her ears were pierced this birth father couldn’t figure out it was Bella even when the sketch pretty much nailed it? Yes he must have been on serious chemicals!
I should probably mention that I work in Boston and couldn’t miss the baby doe billboards...did you know me?
Tent or teepee? I believe Elizabeth Warren once claimed to have been the author of the OWS agenda. Is she still a MA Senator? Has she spoken out on this sad story?
Deval Patrick is responsible for the disaster that is the DCF today. Why? Because under his reign there were nothing but incompetents hired at all levels. He is the worst Governor this state has ever had.
No one can defend him.
Yup. You are correct again, handydandy. Liz Warren once said, “I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do. I support what they do.”
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