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"  Update, 9/21/2015:\u00A0\u00A0On the night she died, two-year-old Bella Bond was allegedly punched by her mother&amp;#039;s boyfriend Michael McCarthy, ABC News reports. McCarthy and the girl&amp;#039;s mother appeared in a Massachusetts courtroom in connection with her death, and prosecutors revealed new details about the\u00A0tragedy.\u00A0 McCarthy, 35, went to her bedroom to consoler her as she cried, prosecutors said. And\u00A0when\u00A0her mother, Rachelle Bond, who has been charged as an accessory, went back to check on why everything was silent, she allegedly found him standing over Bella&amp;#039;s mattress on the floor. The child&amp;#039;s head was swollen and gray. When Bond, 40, asked McCarthy what he had done, prosecutors claim he said the girl was a demon and it was her time to die, according to ABC News.\u00A0 Bond and McCarthy, who is not Bella&amp;#039;s biological father, put the body in a refrigerator before later weighing it down and putting it in Boston Harbor.\u00A0 &amp;quot;The tragedy of her death is compounded by the fact that her short life ended not by illness or accident, but we believe by an act of violence in the very place where she should have felt safest, in her home,&amp;quot; Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley said to CNN. In addition to providing services for Bella in 2012 and 2013 following neglect complaints, child welfare\u00A0authorities from\u00A0the state Department of Children and Families also terminated Bond&amp;#039;s parental rights over two other children between 2001 and 2006.      Update, 9/18/2015:After following a tip to the Boston Police Homicide Unit, authorities have finally identified the girl known as &amp;quot;Baby Doe.&amp;quot; Sources including relatives and neighbors confirmed her name to be Bella Bond, who was just shy of her third birthday at the time of death. Police have reportedly arrested the girl&amp;#039;s mother, Rachelle Bond, as an accessory after the fact, and her boyfriend, Michael McCarthy, who was charged with murder in connection to the girl&amp;#039;s death. Both are scheduled to be arraigned September 21 and police executed a search warrant Thursday night or Friday morning at an address connected to Bond. Massachusets Governor Charlie Baker said in a press conference that he believes the girl&amp;#039;s mother has other, older children. At one point, the child was involved with the Department of Children and Families (DCF), 0though the case was closed in 2013 and the agency has not been involved since, according to a statement to ABC. And while the Suffolk County\u00A0District\u00A0Attorney&amp;#039;s\u00A0office told CNN that the\u00A0&amp;quot;investigation remains very\u00A0active,&amp;quot;\u00A0the\u00A0search warrant\u00A0executed in the\u00A0Boston neighborhood of Mattapan\u00A0Thursday led them to the break in the case.  The details are still developing but Jake Wark, district attorney spokesman, said &amp;quot;should the situation change, we will update you immediately.&amp;quot; Update, 8/14/2015:\u00A0Two months after her body was discovered, police are now\u00A0investigating a new lead in the case of &amp;quot;Baby Doe,&amp;quot; thanks to pollen samples. While tests confirm\u00A0there were no signs of trauma or toxins in her death, government lab results have just recently revealed the little girl was likely from the Boston area. The break\u00A0supports the police&amp;#039;s theory that she was local to the city, though science isn&amp;#039;t necessarily the authorities main focus. &amp;quot;We think it&amp;#039;s going to take someone who knew her to tell us who she was, and that&amp;#039;s really our priority right now,&amp;quot;\u00A0Jake Wark, a spokesman for Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley, told ABC News today. He also added that it&amp;#039;s unusual for someone to be unidentified for this length of time. But that&amp;#039;s not deterring their mission.\u00A0 &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re trying to reach someone who knew this little girl and encourage them to step forward, identify her, and give her the dignity of a burial under her own true name.&amp;quot; Update, 7/30/2015: While authorities have yet to determine who she is or how she died, Massachusetts officials attended a church service in &amp;quot;Baby Doe&amp;#039;s&amp;quot; honor Wednesday. At the memorial mass, which was organized by House Speaker Robert DeLeo and held at the Paulist Center, Reverend Rick Walsh called the unidentified child &amp;quot;our little girl,&amp;quot; while Governor Charlie Baker said he wonders what her life was like before it ended &amp;quot;in such a terrible way.&amp;quot;  Original, 7/9/2015: On June 25, a woman walking her dog on the rocky shoreline of Boston Harbor called 911 after finding a trash bag containing the remains of a young girl. The child was wearing polka dot leggings and pierced earrings, and had a zebra-print blanket with her in the bag.  The unidentified girl, called &amp;quot;Baby Doe,&amp;quot; is believed to be around 4 years old and has brown eyes and brown hair below her shoulders. She was about 3 and a half feet tall and weighed 30 pounds.  To help identify her, the National Center for Missing &amp;amp;amp; Exploited Children created a computer-generated composite image of what she might have looked like. Massachusetts State Police posted it on Facebook last week. (They updated it on July 9 to show her earrings.) Since then, the photo has been seen or shared by more than 45 million people, Suffolk County District Attorney&amp;#039;s office deputy press secretary Renee Nadeau Algarin told CNN. &amp;quot;We ask the parents or caregivers of this young girl to please step forward and clear your conscience,&amp;quot; Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley said at a news conference. Despite the shares, investigators still don&amp;#039;t know who she is \u2014 or how and when she died. There were no obvious signs of trauma to her body, and an autopsy by the state medical examiner&amp;#039;s office was also inconclusive. Authorities are waiting on toxicology test results to see if she was poisoned or ingested drugs, Conley said at the conference. The girl&amp;#039;s remains had started decomposing, he said, but it&amp;#039;s unclear when she died.  Based on tips police received about possibly missing children, more than 20 well-being checks have been done in other jurisdictions \u2014 but all of the children were fine. &amp;quot;We are extremely grateful for the many tips we have received, and we ask the public to keep sharing this little girl&amp;#039;s photo and information so that we may continue to receive and follow up on leads,&amp;quot; the Massachusetts State Police said on its Facebook page. The post has more than 665,000 shares so far. &amp;quot;We ask the public to be alert for any children who seem to have gone missing from their communities, their neighborhoods, schools, summer programs, parks, churches, or any other places where people gather,&amp;quot; the Massachusetts State Police posted.  Anyone with information about this girl or a missing child is encouraged to call Massachusetts State Police at 508-820-2121 (24-hour number), the Suffolk County State Police Detective Unit at 617-727-8817, or Winthrop Police at 617-539-5806. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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