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Bella Bond’s mother was in court Wednesday to faces charges in the death of the Boston toddler.Images: Bella Bond case | Watch reportRachelle Bond, made her first court appearance since a Suffolk County Grand Jury indicted her for being an accessory after the fact to the murder of her daughter."She told police that she knew immediately that her daughter was dead, and went to hold her, but Mr. McCarthy prevented her from seeing her daughter,” prosecutor David Deakin said.Throughout the arraignment, Bond trembled and was being comforted by her attorney, Janice Basil. Bond's boyfriend, Michael McCarthy, is charged with killing Bella when the child resisted going to sleep in the late spring of 2015 at their apartment in Dorchester.The child's body was initially put in a trash bag and stuffed in a refrigerator, then eventually tossed into the Boston Harbor."According to the defendant's later statement to police, Mr. McCarthy took the duffel bag and threw it over a little, sort of, seawall-type thing, into the water,” Deakin said.Months after the body washed up on Deer Island, the child's biological father asked repeatedly to meet his daughter. Eventually, Bond confessed about the girl’s death to one of McCarthy's lifelong friends, who was under the impression that DCF had custody of Bella."She broke down crying and said she would never see her daughter again. He told her that, of course that wasn't true, if she got clean, she would, and she said that Michael McCarthy had murdered Bella,” Deakin said.Rachelle Bond was ordered held on $1 million bail. Shortly after she was led away, her attorney insisted that in the months after the murder, Bond had been under the control of McCarthy.“There are issues of emotional control, psychological control. She was, unfortunately, very heavily using drugs at that time, that Mr. McCarthy was providing to her,” Basil said. McCarthy is expected to be arraigned next week on an indictment charging him with Bella’s murder. 10978732