Neither Bella Bond’s
mother nor her father went to police once they found out their 2-year-old
daughter was dead. Bella Bond’s mom only
fessed up when dad knocked on her door. Neither of them called the cops.
Prosecutors alleged
Monday in an arraignment that Michael McCarthy, the ex-boyfriend of Bella’s
mother Rachelle Bond, murdered the toddler in June. This not on the basis of
any forensic evidence but only on statements Bond made. After that, Bond said
she and McCarthy kept Bella’s body in a refrigerator for several weeks before
dumping it in a South Boston Harbor.
According to Bond’s
attorney Janice Bassil, McCarthy held Bond “captive.”
Bond told Joseph
Amoroso, Bella’s father, that McCarthy threatened to kill her if she said anything
and that he injected her with a gram of heroin in her neck every day for five
months to keep her compliant.
After arriving in
Boston from Florida several weeks ago, Amoroso knocked on Bond’s door. Amoroso
said he was there to see Bella for the first time in person. Bond told him that
the girl was on Cape Cod.
Then last week,
McCarthy went to the hospital for abscesses on his arm from shooting heroin.
Then Bond “was finally freed,” according to Bassil.
“The first thing she
did was tell somebody,” Bassill added, referring to a conversation she had with
Michael Sprinsky, a friend of McCarthy.
Previously, Bond told
Sprinsky that Bella was with the Department of Children and Families. When he
asked again, she gave in.
“I’ll never see my
daughter ever again,” she told Sprinsky. “Michael McCarthy killed her.”
Sprinsky asked
McCarthy, who replied via text: “She’s in DCF that’s where she is. Who are you
going to believe me or [expletive deleted].”
Bond did not call
police but Sprinsky did.
Amoroso returned and
asked about Bella again, which is when she confessed to him, too.
“Our daughter is dead,”
Amoroso said Bond told him. “The guy that’s been living in my house murdered
our daughter.”
This, according to
McCarthy’s attorney, Jonathan Shapiro, was the “product of her delusional and
sick mind.” McCarthy, he says, honestly thought the child had been taken by DCF
as two of Bond’s other children had been.
Amoroso said he and
Bond both debated calling the FBI or police but never did so.
Amoroso sat in the
front row of the courtroom when Bond and McCarthy were escorted in handcuffs to
a protective glass cage. When Bond turned and looked to the courtroom, Amoroso
placed a clenched hand over his chest in a show of support.
It was a strange
solidarity to have with a woman who allegedly tormented his daughter.
Sprinsky told law
enforcement the couple would lock Bella up in a closet for up to an hour while
she screamed, according to Suffolk County Assistant District Attorney David
Deakin. Sprinsky said both Bond and McCarthy believed the toddler was possessed
by demons.
Bond told authorities
that her daughter died one evening in late May. Bella was crying and McCarthy
took her to another room to try to calm her down. Bond’s account of what
happened next is vague: she says she went to check on them and saw McCarthy’s
arms moving rapidly, making contact with Bella, “either striking or applying
pressure,” Deakin said.
When Bond saw that
Bella was swollen and her face was gray, she knew her child was dead. The
medical examiner still has not determined an exact cause of death.
“She was a demon
anyway, it was her time to die,” McCarthy allegedly told her.
That made Amoroso
scream: “McCarthy, you’re done! You won’t last a day!”
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