A 47-year-old man has been charged in the case of the Massachusetts teenager who ran away from home was dropped off at hospital the next day where she later died.
Carlos Rivera was arrested Saturday morning and Lawrence Police said he gave drugs to Chloe Ricard, 13, who was pronounced dead in the emergency room of Lawrence General Hospital on Monday night soon after the man left her with medical staff saying the teenager needed help.
Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett said in a statement Rivera was accompanied by an unidentified girl under the age of 16 when Ricard was dumped at the ER, about 30 miles north of Boston, around 4.47pm.
Investigators learned both minors were at Rivera's 59 Bellevue Street apartment Sunday evening and most of Monday. It's unclear how he knows them but a source claimed he knew them before Sunday.
Chloe's family said they last saw her on Sunday afternoon when she was dropped at a friend's house. They reported her missing the following day when child services contacted her to report they thought she might be trying to run away. Images from her social media are shown
The cause of the Amesbury girl's death is still not clear.
Rivera is charged with two counts of distribution of Class B drugs to a minor, two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 years old, and one count of the same charge for a person over 14, according to the statement.
He is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday.
'We will continue our diligent pursuit of justice for this victim,' Blodgett said in the statement. 'I want to commend the entire investigative team who worked around the clock to determine the events leading of the tragic death of a 13-year old girl. We will continue our diligent pursuit of justice for this victim.'
One of Chloe's last posts on the photo-sharing website Instagram was a troubling musing about death. It reads: 'I dont wanna live long at all.
'Y'all dumb tryna clown me and bring me down for being what I am... I live my life everyday like its the last and that's me.
'I'll never change and one day i will not wake up and that's my goal. Stop worrying about my health.'
Chloe's Instagram page has since been closed and police are investigating the mysterious death that her family say happened one day after she ran away from home.
Chloe Ricard, 13, died in the emergency room of Lawrence General Hospital in Massachusetts on Monday afternoon after being dropped off by Carlos Rivera, police say
Stepfather Brian Dolan told Boston 25 News: 'No pulse, no nothing, they just drove in and dropped her off.
'She didn't even have a pulse when they pushed her out of the car. The only thing I was told earlier from another agency is… someone 47 years old dropped her off.
'Whoever did this to my little stepdaughter, trust me, I hope there's hell to pay because they threw her out of the car like a bag of trash.
'If that was your kid, if that was your sister, if that was your brother, or your
