Search warrant reveals more details into investigation of 12-year-old's death in Enfield
Newly released court documents reveal more details in the investigation into a 12-year-old girl who was found dead in her Enfield home last month.
Police were called to the Elm Street home on March 18 on a report of an unresponsive 12-year-old female. The child was found on the floor of a bedroom with lividity, rigor mortis, and blood and fluids coming from her nose. She was also found naked from the waist down with a blanket over the lower half of her body. Based on these circumstances, the medical investigator stopped her examination, according to an arrest warrant.
On April 2, the 12-year-old’s stepfather, Anthony Federline, was arrested and charged with first-degree sexual assault and risk of injury. The charges came after a sexual assault kit and DNA buccal swabs indicated that Federline’s DNA was likely to be on the child, according to an arrest warrant.
Federline was also a bus driver for Enfield Public Schools, employed by Smyth Bus Company.
A newly released search warrant said that investigators “have probable cause to believe that evidence of the crime of Murder 53a-54a, Sexual Assault in the first degree 53a-70, and Risk of Injury to a Minor 53-21” will be found in this investigation. Federline has not been formally charged with murder.
Investigators seized the following items from the Elm Street home after their search:
- One Amazon tablet
- A pink sparkle journal
- One bottle of RX Amphetamine Salts containing 18 pills
- One black tube of Essence Eye Makeup
- One silver HP laptop
- One white weekly pill organizer
- One white cylindrical object with pink rubber cover
- One pink cloth swing with hook
- One pair of blue spandex style shorts
- One pink printed Hello Kitty comforter
- One pink printed Hello Kitty bedsheet
- One gray and white long body pillow
- One pair of Haynes pink girls’ underwear
- One pink oval shaped pill (unmarked)
- One white capsule pill (unmarked)
- 13 blue capsule pills, marked R3060
- One Samsung cell phone
- Two swabbings from the lips of the child
- Two swabbings from the wall
- Four pages titled “My safety plan” and “Mood Disorder Questionnaire”
Officials provided a timeline of the investigation on Wednesday.
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Federline did not post his $1 million bond and remains in custody.
The cause of the 12-year-old’s death is still under investigation by the Office of the Chief Medical Investigator and the toxicology report could take weeks.
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