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.
Darwin’s theory in action.
Psyche drugs and other pills that a typical 22 yr old college student indulges in and doesn’t think it can happen to them.
Exactly. Curse? As Shakespeare said, the fault is not in our stars but in ourselves. The Kennedys are, for the most part, a bad lot. Old Joe made a lot of money, and he parlayed that fortune into political careers for his sons (which they used to do untold damage to the nation, especially Teddy’s immigration ‘reform’). The rest of the clan has had countless problems associated with spoiled, reckless people doing spoiled reckless things.
“Saoirse”
How do you even say that name?
Say O ersey?
That’s a curse right there.
Many families across America suffer the same fate with their young dying from drug overdoses and there isn't even a mention of it in the media.
My wife and I lost our son a year and a half ago from a drug overdose. Not one mention in the press. My nephew's daughter died of a drug overdose. No mention in the press. The mother of two of our grandkids, died from a drug overdose. No mention in the press.
These stories are all sad and not uncommon in America nowadays. The reason the Kennedy's are in the press is because they are famous. No other reason.
The Kennedys’ “War on Women” continues.
Twenty years ago since John-John thought he was an instrument rated pilot and morted himself and his wife & sister-in-law.
Aircraft explosions/crashes, assassination, hard objects on ski slopes & roadways, drug/alchohol overdoses, suicide by hanging, rape & murder, lobotomization, overturned cars in shallow waters — the Kennedys have diverse means & methods of harming themselves and others or being harmed.
It is not a curse. They are genetically inferior which is why the media pushes them upon the populace.
I met someone once with that name, she pronounced it "Sir sha"
Yeah. My dad went to Holy Cross, and my mother’s eyes used to flash with anger when she talked about “Those damned Jesuits”...
Within the last week or so, the Jesuits came out with an official paper endorsing Marxism.
Like the Pope, I guess.
People talk of the curse of the Kennedys.
It depends what events we are talking about.
Political assassinations may well be said to be a curse.
But self inflicted wounds, such as Chappaquiddick , JFK Jr. flying his plane in unsafe conditions, the William Kennedy Smith rape case, JFK’s dad giving a daughter a lobotomy — such self inflicted harms are hardly a curse, in my opinion. They show a terrible lack of judgement, not that a family is cursed.
Pride goeth before a fall. But did he have to kill his wife and sister-in-law too?!
Her father was John Hill made famous as the friend of Daniel Day Lewis in the 1993 movie: “In The Name of the Father”.
Her dad spent 15 years in a British prison for a London bombing that he did not commit. He was from Belfast. Hence the Irish name.
The family “godfather” Joe Kennedy made the family money in organized crime.
That was the “curse”.
Yep, drugs.
Could have been illegal or legal, she was on drugs for ‘depression’, could have been mixed with booze...
Sorry, Paul Hill not John Hill.
That’s a weird name.
Should have just named her weirdo.
Kennedys
Can’t Fly
Can’t Drive
Can’t Ski
Can’t Skipper a Boat
...but they know what’s best for us.
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