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Mother pleads guilty to her role in hiding the death of Baby Bella
By adamg on Fri, 02/10/2017 - 1:44pm
Rachelle Dee Bond, whose dead 2-year-old daughter, Bella, washed up on the shore of Deer Island in June, 2015, today pleaded guilty to charges of being an accessory after the fact to the girl's murder and larceny over $250 by false pretenses after continuing to acceept public-assistance payments for her even after her death, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Bond's boyfriend, Michael McCarthy, continues to await trial on charges he he killed Bella when she wouldn't go to sleep in their Dorchester apartment, then set her body adrift in Boston Harbor.
Bond is scheduled for sentencing on May 22, the DA's office reports.
the murder of her daughter, 2-year-old Bella Bond, and larceny over $250 by false purposes for allegedly continuing to accept public assistance
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Baby Bella's "Mother"
It seems this woman should be considered an accessory before and during, as well as after the fact. Will she continue to have children? Her worst punishment would be that she be required to get a full time job.
Plea Agreement
According to the Globe, she will be sentenced to probation and time served in exchange for testimony at the murder trial. It sounds like the prosecution believes she acted under coercion.
What about DCF?
Has there been any investigation into why she was allowed to keep Bella from day one given her history of having kids removed? Or who is responsible for closing an earlier case with Bella? Their failures here are also criminal, and yet we hear nothing.
Not good enough
How long was the search on to find who that little girl was and who were her loved ones were? I can be pretty understanding when it comes to crimes and punishment but she she have the book thrown at her.
I hear you, but...
I think they need HER testimony so that they can really throw the book at her scumbag, murdering boyfriend.
Yeah, they want the boyfriend
Not her.
Absolutely heartless.
Absolutely heartless. Absolutely incomprehensible. Like all of the civilian/child deaths in the Middle East. Poor children. *sob
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and then there was 1
BS plea bargain. So that tells me she had no role in the murder before there was a trial? BS.
Let the jury decide that.
No Evidence
It's highly unlikely the DA would have made a deal with her if they had evidence to obtain a murder conviction at trial. A jury is legally bound to "decide" based on presented evidence.
There's no way she's innnocent
Even if she didn't murder her child, she played some sort of role in it. She deserves to spend time in jail.
"Time Served"
She has been in jail 2-1/2 years, not being released until May, or until after the murder trial is completed.