The body of the 2-year-old girl found dead in a bag on Massachusetts' Deer Island this summer — who went unidentified for three months despite enormous public attention and campaigns — has at long last been ID'd, The Daily Beast reports. The girl's name was Bella.
Aileen Hermiz, who lives upstairs and played with [Bella], said the mother was nice but yelled at the girl a lot. The mother would sometimes come upstairs to borrow a phone or get an internet password, she said."I can't believe a mother could do that to her child," she said. "I think if she did something like that it would show reaction, but she was really quiet." [Boston Globe]
A woman walking her dog on Deer Island discovered Bella's body on June 25. A composite photo of "Baby Doe," as Bella was known until her identification, was shared and viewed on social media by 54 million users.
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