Overview
- Eve Rogers, 12, was found unresponsive at her Enfield home on March 18 and was pronounced dead at the scene.
- Detectives performed a sexual-assault exam and DNA tests that linked stepfather Anthony Federline to evidence on the child, and police also noted an unidentified DNA profile.
- Federline, 39, was arrested on first-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a child, was arraigned without entering a plea, and is held on a $1 million bond.
- Investigators returned to the Elm Street home with the Connecticut State Police Major Crime Squad to carry out a new search warrant, and the cause of death remains pending.
- Federline was fired from his school bus job after the arrest, and parents questioned why he kept driving during the early investigation as the district said it was not told he was a person of interest.