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Chloe had previously been named by her family as the girl who was pronounced dead soon after arriving at the Lawrence hospital Monday night. She was not identified by the Essex district attorney.

Rivera, 47, was arrested by Lawrence police after being questioned by investigators and is expected to be arraigned Tuesday in Lawrence District Court, according to the district attorney’s office.

Rivera faces charges that include two counts of indecent assault & battery on a child under 14, one count of indecent assault & battery on a person over the age of 14, and two counts of distributing drugs to a minor, according to the district attorney’s office.

Rivera is being held on $750,000 bail until his arraignment, said Carrie Kimball, the spokeswoman for the Essex district attorney’s office.

The Amesbury 13-year-old and another girl under the age of 16 were at Rivera’s apartment at 59 Bellevue St. in Lawrence the evening of last Sunday and most of the day Monday,
according to the district attorney’s statement.

Around 4:45 p.m. Monday, Rivera brought the 13-year-old to Lawrence General Hospital, the statement said. They were accompanied by the other underage girl who was in Rivera’s apartment.

The district attorney’s statement did not name Chloe or the other girl with Rivera in his apartment and at the hospital.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has not yet determined the cause and manner of the 13-year-old’s death, according to the district attorney’s 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,” Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett said in the statement. “We will continue our diligent pursuit of justice for this victim.”

Chloe’s mother, Deborah Goldsmith-Dolan, and her stepfather, Brian Dolan, previously told the Globe that Chloe had been dropped off at a friend’s house around 4 p.m. Sunday.

Goldsmith-Dolan said that when Chloe did not come home Sunday night, she reached out to her daughter’s friends the next day and was told the girl was with a friend in Haverhill.

At some point during the day Monday, Goldsmith-Dolan said, a state worker from the Department of Children and Families contacted her, saying “there was some red flags” and that Chloe was possibly planning to move out of state.

Goldsmith-Dolan reported her daughter missing around 4 p.m. Monday and was with police when a friend of Chloe’s texted her to say the girl was in the hospital.

The death remains under investigation by the Essex district attorney’s office, the Essex State Police Detective Unit, and Lawrence police.

John Hilliard can be reached at john.hilliard@globe.com.