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harbor. body washed up on deer island which is a little to the east of there near boston's logan airport and a woman walking her dog on june 25th, her dog apparently had some interest in that bag. went over to look at it and the woman asked a person nearby to go with her to check out what was in the bag. they opened the bag and found what looked to be the limb of a small child, and of course they called the companies and that's how this all got started. now for almost 90 days the police and community had no idea who this child was. but as cliff van zandt was reporting in the last hour, because no one in this area had reported a child of that age missing, it became pretty clear to the authorities at least that they were looking at someone who was perhaps the caregiver of this child. the question again that a lot of people are going to be asking is, given this mother's history, having lost two of her kids to the state, why did the state not check more often on bella's condition given what happened to the older children. we've also learned that michael mccarthy, according to a friend
amount of $1 million cash. briefly, your honor, the complaints before the court allege the following set of circumstances: by way of brief background, on june 25th of this year, a woman walking her dog on deer island found a plastic contractor's construction bag and noted that her dog had run offer to it and was pawing at it, very interested in the contents. she went over to the bag after asking another person to come with her, opened the bag partially and saw what appeared to be the limb of a small child. she immediately called 911. massachusetts state police and other first responders responded and they opened the bag and found the body of an unknown, unidentified approximately 3 to 4-year-old child based on their estimates of her size.
that's the department of of children and families. to give her some time, i suppose, to figure out what they were going to do now that she knew her boyfriend, michael mccarthy, had bunched this child repeated will i in the abdomen until she died an then put her in the refrigerator. after while the questions kept coming back from this life-long friend and apparently the conscience started to work on rachelle bond and she eventually said to this friend that i'll never see my child again. the friend said why is that? she says because michael mccarthy killed her. apparently rachelle bond according to what we are hearing from the assistant district attorney then worked with michael mccarthy in trying to figure out what to do with the body. the body stayed in the refrigerator for some time, then she was placed in a contractor's crash bag. they drove apparently to the south end of boston to the seaport area over there. she says according to the assistant district attorney, she, being rachelle bond, put some weights in this bag, then put the trash bag in a duffel bag and threw it into boston
she was partially -- she was in the beginning stages of decomposition, wearing white leggings with black polka dots and no shirt and there were two blankets, a zebra print blanket in the bag with her. moisture was in the bag but it had remained fairly sealed until that time. the bag had been seen the previous noontime on the 24th of june, indicating to investigators the bag had been washed up on the beach for approximately 24 hours. there ensued a three-month exhaustive search comprising thousands of -- maybe tens of thousands of detective hours spent trying to identify the girl without success. detectives traced leads all across massachusetts, they got