A 13-year-old girl disappeared and was dropped at the hospital at the time of death. Now, the man is stopped.

May 25, 2019, 21:01 UTC

By Minyvonne Burke

A 47-year-old man from Massachusetts was arrested Saturday, a few days after filing a teenager to the hospital, who died later, police said.

Carlos Rivera is the subject of two counts of Class B drug distribution to a minor, two counts of indecent assault and murder on a child under 14 years old and of a murder leader for a person over the age of 14, said the Lawrence Police Department to a press release.

He was taken into custody at the police station after interviewing investigators. He should be indicted on Tuesday.

Chloe Ricard, of Amesbury, was left at the Lawrence General Hospital around 4:50 pm. Monday. She died shortly after arriving.

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The detectives said during their investigation they learned that it was Rivera who had filed the teenager. He was accompanied by a girl under the age of 16 whom the authorities did not identify.

According to the investigators, Ricard and the other teenager were at Rivera's apartment on Sunday night and most of Monday. A medical examiner will determine the cause and manner of Ricard's death, the police said.

Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett described the death of this girl as "tragic".

"We will continue our diligent search for justice for this victim," he said in a press release from the police department.

Deborah Goldsmith-Dolan told the Boston Globe that she had dropped her daughter at a friend's house in Amesbury on Sunday night and that she was worried about not hearing from this girl on Monday morning.

After texting Ricard's friends, Goldsmith-Dolan said that he had been told that his daughter was safe at another friend's house in Haverhill. Ricard's social worker in charge of child services later told Goldsmith-Dolan that there were "red flags" suggesting that the teenager intended to to move to Virginia.

Goldsmith-Dolan said at the exit that Monday night, one of Ricard's friends had told him that the teenager had been taken to the hospital.

Ricard was an eighth grade student who had previously attended Amesbury Middle School, the district said in a statement Tuesday. The Boston Globe reports that she was a student at Rowley's Solstice Day School at the time of her death.

"Chloe was a talented young artist who was creative and found that she could sometimes express herself better through her works," said Jared Fulgoni, Superintendent of Amesbury Public Schools. "She has been kind to the youngest students in the school and has shown great empathy for others, we will miss her smile, her creativity and her big heart."