“Eve Begged Her Mom To Save Her… No One Listened

The death of a 12-year-old girl who was found in a home in Enfield last month is being investigated as a potential homicide, according to a search warrant tied to the case.

The search warrant police obtained on March 18 to search the Elm Street home the day Eve Rogers was found dead on the floor of her bedroom said authorities suspected she may have been killed and sexually assaulted. The document had initially been sealed from the public and was used in search of evidence to support possible charges of murder, sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor, it said.

The release of the search warrant comes after the Enfield Police Department arrested Eve’s stepfather, 39-year-old Anthony Federline, last week on charges of first-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a child, police said.

Federline, who lived in the home along with the girl, her mother and other siblings, was allegedly found to be a likely contributor of DNA collected from Eve’s body, according to the arrest warrant. Federline has not been charged in Eve’s killing.

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Anthony Federline has been accused of sexually assaulting a girl who was found dead in an Enfield home in March. (Enfield Police Department)
A spokesperson for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said Thursday that the results of her autopsy remain pending. According to Federline’s arrest warrant, investigators are still awaiting the results of toxicology testing.

Emergency crews responded to the home when they received a 911 call about an unresponsive female around 10:25 a.m. Police said Eve was pronounced dead at the scene, though her cause of death was not “immediately apparent.”

Authorities found that Eve’s body was on the floor of her bedroom with a blanket over her lower half, the warrant affidavit said. She was unclothed from the waist down and her bra had been pulled down.

Her face, legs and arms appeared bluish-purple and rigor mortis had set in, police wrote. She also had blood and fluids coming from her nose.

Investigators found two pills near the door in the bedroom, including one that was red or pink and another that had white powder inside, the warrant states. They also found a pill on her desk that was marked “aspirin,” according to the warrant affidavit.

According to the search warrant, investigators went through the home and reported seizing 13 blue capsule pills marked R3060. According to Drugs.com, the marking indicates the pills are Amphetamine and Dextroamphetamine, which can be used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy.

Authorities also reported seizing an unmarked white capsule pill, an unmarked pink oval shaped pill, a bottle of RX amphetamine salts containing 18 pills and a weekly pill organizer, the search warrant said. The warrant said Eve had been prescribed amphetamine salts, which is commonly referred to as Adderall and used to treat ADHD.

According to the arrest warrant, the day Eve was found dead, Federline told police the girl was diagnosed with “POTS”, was autistic and was in the process of being diagnosed with bipolar disorder. A detective did not interview him further after Federline allegedly asked for space because he “wanted to break things,” the warrant said. Police said he appeared overcome with emotion and angry, according to the warrant affidavit.

According to the search warrant, police also seized four pages titled “My safety plan” and “Mood Disorder Questionnaire.” They also seized a tablet, a laptop, a cell phone, a “pink sparkle journal,” eye makeup, a “white cylindrical object with pink rubber cover,” a pink swing cloth with a hook, a pair of spandex shorts, a comforter, bed sheet and a pillow. They also took several swabbings from Eve and a wall of the home.

The warrant said police found a laptop with YouTube open on the floor of the bedroom where Eve was found and a tablet on the bed.

The search warrant said police looked through an adjacent bedroom from Eve’s which was used by a 17-year-old sibling in the home. Inside, police reported finding a plate with blue pills on it “in the open” and “numerous” pill bottles lying around a desk, the search warrant said.

Investigators returned to the home this week, though the accompanying search warrant allowing them to enter the home again has been sealed.

According to the warrant affidavit, Eve’s mother told investigators that she would often lock her bedroom door at night and sometimes had a problem sleeping. When she tried to wake the girl the morning she was found dead, the mother told police she had to use a butter knife to unlock the door, the affidavit said. She told police she found Eve face down on the floor and called 911 after seeing her face, the affidavit said.

A sexual assault kit was performed on the girl after investigators found signs indicating she may have been sexually abused, the warrant said. The kit was turned over to the state Division of Scientific Services, which found a mixture of three DNA contributors, including at least one that came from a male, according to the warrant affidavit.

Everyone in the home agreed to give authorities a DNA sample, though police noted in the warrant that when Federline gave a swab he became upset and said it felt like putting “salt in the wound,” police wrote.

The samples were analyzed and Federline was allegedly identified as one of the likely contributors, the warrant affidavit said.

At the time of Eve’s death, Federline was reportedly working as a school bus driver for Enfield Public Schools. According to Superintendent Steven Moccio, he was employed by Smyth Bus Company. Following his arrest, Federline was terminated, Moccio said.

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Federline remains held on $1 million bond and is next scheduled to appear in Hartford Superior Court on May 5. He has not entered a plea, records show.