Posted on 08/02/2019 6:20:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
HYANNIS PORT, Mass. - A 22-year-old granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy died Thursday at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, the family said in a statement.
Saoirse Kennedy Hill, 22, was the daughter of Robert and Ethel Kennedy's fifth child, Courtney, and Paul Michael Hill, who was one of four falsely convicted in the 1974 Irish Republican Army bombings of two pubs.
The Kennedy family released a statement on Thursday night, following reports of a death at the family's compound in Hyannis Port. The statement was issued by Brian Wright O'Connor, a spokesman for former congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II.
"She lit up our lives with her love, her peals of laughter and her generous spirit," the statement said, adding that she was passionate about human rights and women's empowerment and worked with indigenous communities to build schools in Mexico.
Our hearts are shattered by the loss of our beloved Saoirse. Her life was filled with hope, promise and love. She cared deeply about friends and family, especially her mother Courtney, her father Paul, her stepmother Stephanie, and her grandmother Ethel, who said, "The world is a little less beautiful today." She lit up our lives with her love, her peals of laughter and her generous spirit. Saoirse was passionately moved by the causes of human rights and women's empowerment and found great joy in volunteer work, working alongside indigenous communities to build schools in Mexico. We will love her and miss her forever.
The statement says Saoirse Hill was passionate about human rights and women's empowerment and that she worked with indigenous communities to build schools in Mexico.
The statement quoted her 91-year-old grandmother, Ethel Kennedy, as saying "the world is a little less beautiful today."
The family statement did not include a cause of death.
Saoirse attended Boston College, where she was a member of the class of 2020.
In 2016, she openly wrote about mental illness, battling depression and a suicide attempt while a student at Deerfield Academy. In the article, she also wrote about a sexual assault "after someone I knew and loved broke serious sexual boundaries with me."
"I did the worst thing a victim can do, and I pretended it hadn't happened," she wrote. "This all became too much, and I attempted to take my own life."
Thursday afternoon, paramedics responded to a medical call at the Kennedy compound property.
Sky25 video captured two police officers going into one of the homes at the compound around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.
>>Photos: The life and death of JFK
A police cruiser and a red car were also parked outside the waterfront property earlier on Thursday when the victim was taken to Cape Cod Hospital.
In a statement, assistant district attorney Tara Miltimore, of the Cape & Islands District Attorney's Office, said police responded to a Marchant Avenue residence for an unattended death.
Earlier this afternoon Barnstable Police responded to a residence on Marchant Ave in Hyannisport for a reported unattended death. The matter remains under investigation by Barnstable Police and State Police detectives assigned to the District Attorney's Office. -Assistant District Attorney Tara Miltimore
Police say they responded to 28 Marchant Ave. for a medical call shortly after 2:30 p.m. Thursday.
Fire crews cleared the scene at 2:54 p.m.
The home, which is assessed at $2.5 million, has been owned by several Kennedy family members over the years, including the late Edward M. Kennedy and the late Robert F. Kennedy, online assessor's records show.
In the 1960s, the compound served as the summer White House for President John F. Kennedy.
Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down in Los Angeles in 1968 after winning California's presidential primary. He had served as attorney general in the administration of his brother, President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in Dallas in 1963.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
They said yesterday that someone there died of an overdose.
Yes, a Kennedy. Shocking...................
I am very sad for the young lady and her family.
I have seen it before. The family decides they can detox “in private” and avoid the dirty laundry. It works for a few days, almost a week, so the tolerance is way down as they get really desperate. So “a friend” smuggles some in to “take the edge off”. What was just a maintenance dose last week is now an overdose.
Surprised it wasn’t a botched lobotomy.
Very sad. There is a curse on that family. They lose their young, in every generation. God be with them, esp. Ethel. She has known great sorrow.
Wonder why no mention of who raped her?
What kind of damaging information did she have on the Clintons??
At least she didn’t get knocked up and abandoned in an Oldsmobile to drown.
Beautiful young girl with her whole life ahead of her. Drugs and drink, the Kennedy curse.
A detail conspicuously absent from the AP article.
Even the MSM admitted that Mary Jo died of an overdose of dihydrogen monoxide.
The Kennedys spread a lot of misery around, but they keep a good deal of it for themselves.
There is no curse on the Kennedy family. However it should be understood that “philanthropy” and political posturing can never create fulfillment in a person who has embraced decadence and hedonism. This young person had a troubled life as do many children of divorce. She attended Boston College. This institution is just another valueless “Catholic” shell. If she had attended fifty years age perhaps devout, purposeful Jesuits ( who no longer for the most part exist) might have given her a philosophical and moral perspective to her life. However at today’s Boston College she joined the “College Democrats” and died from an overdose. Sadly much of America has avidly embraced decadence and hedonism. The Church, which was once a moral beacon of counter culturalism, has been itself permeated by vile criminal homosexual predators and is simply now a sad place.Places like Boston College are morally vapid.
Unattended death. 22 years old. Set to graduate next year. Poor kid.
Old Joe Kennedy was a Nazi sympathizer. Even Roosevelt had to sack him as ambassador to the Court of St. James. I suspect the 'curse' has something to do with that..............
Horrible
If Joe Kennedy were alive today, instead of liquor, he’d be trafficking in drugs. And be listed on the manifest for Epstein’s plane.
Jesuits USED to be the strictest sect in all of Catholicism.........
Ouch.
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