Bella’s fate horrified addict pal
Witness weeps on stand
A high school dropout who has struggled with drug addiction for 20 years wept on the stand yesterday while recounting the war of words he had with a lifelong friend after being told he had heartlessly murdered little Bella Bond.
“Please, say it ain’t so, Mike, please,” Michael Sprinsky said he implored Michael P. McCarthy in a series of desperate and disbelieving text messages sent Sept. 16, 2015.
Sprinsky, 37, an admitted heroin abuser and pill-popper with a long rap sheet, told jurors in his former pal’s murder trial he was “shocked” when McCarthy’s girlfriend, Rachelle Dee Bond, made the stunning confession to him that her lover had killed her 2-year-old daughter more than three months earlier.
“She told me everything. Can’t stop puking. She says you killed Bella, bro,” Sprinsky texted McCarthy as the latter was awaiting treatment at a Boston hospital for an abscess. “How the (expletive) could you do that? Dude, what the (expletive)? Where is the kid?”
Bella, as would be revealed, was “Baby Doe,” an unclaimed tot whose remains were found by a dog walker on a Deer Island beach on June 25, 2015.
Sprinsky said when he looked up the worldfamous case online he immediately recognized a blanket she had been discarded with.
Suffolk Superior Court Judge Janet L. Sanders is suspending Sprinsky’s testimony until tomorrow so that the jury of 15 can be taken on a police-escorted tour today of important sites in the case.
Those locations are expected to include the beach, the South Boston cruise ship channel where Bond claims McCarthy sank Bella’s body in a weighted laundry bag, and the Dorchester apartment building where the girl was allegedly punched to death and stuffed in the refrigerator.
Bond, 41, will testify against McCarthy, 37, as part of a cooperation agreement she struck with prosecutors earlier this year that will free her from prison in exchange for her guilty plea to the charge of accessory after the fact to murder.
Sprinsky, who said he’s “now in recovery,” testified to previously witnessing Bond spank Bella “hard” and McCarthy lock her in a closet because both believed she was possessed by demons.
“It was crazy,” he said, adding “they asked her constantly” about the evil spirits they were convinced she was harboring.
But when he confronted McCarthy in text messages about Bond’s murder claims, Sprinsky said McCarthy fired back, “Wow, you’re listening to a cracked-out hooker? (The state) took Bella. That’s what she told me.”