‘He said he would kill me,’ Rachelle Bond says of ex-boyfriend during testimony

For four nights, 2-year-old Bella Bond refused to go to sleep. Her mother, Rachelle Bond, said the restless child would run in and out of her bedroom, frustrating Rachelle Bond’s live-in boyfriend, Michael McCarthy.

One late night in June 2015, as the couple listened to the little girl play in her room, McCarthy got out of bed and said he would go talk to her.

Five minutes later, Rachelle Bond went to check on them, she testified Friday in Suffolk Superior Court. Through a crack in the door, she watched in horror as McCarthy punched the child so hard in the stomach the girl bounced up and down in her bed, Bond said. Bella was unconscious, her face swollen and gray.

“What the [expletive] did you do?” Bond said she screamed at him.

“‘It was her time to die,’” McCarthy replied, according to Bond. “‘She was a demon.’”

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