Mother pleads guilty to accessory charge in 'Baby Doe' case
Source: Associated Press
Mother pleads guilty to accessory charge in 'Baby Doe' case
Updated 1:06 pm, Friday, February 10, 2017
BOSTON (AP) — A woman whose ex-boyfriend is accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter pleaded guilty Friday to helping dispose of the girl's body in a plea deal that's expected to lead to her release from jail less than two years after the girl's remains washed up on a Boston Harbor island.
Rachelle Bond pleaded guilty to a charge of being an accessory after the murder. She also pleaded guilty to a larceny charge for collecting about $1,400 in welfare benefits after her daughter's death in May 2015.
Bella Bond's remains were found in a plastic bag on Deer Island.
A composite image of the chubby-cheeked, wide-eyed girl was shared by millions on social media when authorities were trying to identify her. Three months later, Rachelle Bond told a friend of her boyfriend, Michael McCarthy, that McCarthy had killed her daughter.
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>> Prosecutors said Bond told the man that McCarthy — angry that Bella didn't want to go to sleep one night — punched her daughter in the abdomen over and over again until she died.
Bond told police that when she saw her daughter's body, McCarthy said: "She was a demon anyway. It was her time to die." <<
