Video shows 12-year-old Enfield girl when DCF got involved a week prior to her death
NBC Connecticut is continuing to learn more about the 12-year-old girl who was found dead in her Enfield home over one month ago.
Police have arrested her stepfather on sexual assault charges. The girl’s cause of death is still unknown, but NBC Connecticut has learned that DCF was involved with the family one week before her death, when she snuck out and went to a gas station in the middle of the night.
NBC Connecticut obtained surveillance video from the Mobil Gas Station on Elm Street, where the girl was alone in the early morning hours of March 11. She is first seen in the footage at 1:24 a.m., sitting on the edge of the gas station’s property. She then gets up and walks into the gas station.
She’s seen holding a tablet. She is wandering around the store and takes what police believe is an energy drink, putting it in her pocket.
Two minutes later, she runs out of the Mobil.
From the incident report NBC Connecticut first obtained, we know that police were called for alleged larceny one hour later and found her an 8-minute walk away from the Mobil. She told police she just wanted to have fun.
Police brought her home, where her mother, who was confused, told police the girl had never done anything like this before. After contacting DCF, the police closed their case. DCF told NBC Connecticut that they had been investigating this incident.
NBC Connecticut has now obtained the 911 call the girl’s mother made when she found the girl unresponsive on the floor of her bedroom one week later.
We are not sharing most of the call due to its sensitive nature. The mother was audibly upset and told the operator she couldn’t understand how this was possible and didn’t know what had happened.
At one point, you hear noise in the background.
“Who else is there with you? Is there somebody else that you want me to talk to?” asked the 911 operator.
“I have my 17-year-old son and my husband,” said the mother.
Over two weeks later, the girl’s stepfather, Anthony Federline, who was in the background of the call, was arrested for sexual assault and risk of injury charges.
Search warrants indicate police were looking into murder charges against Federline, but those have not been brought forth at this point.
Police have been back to the house multiple times in the month since the girl was found dead, searching the 17-year-old brothers’ phone, a tablet, and a laptop.
DCF tells us they are investigating, too.
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