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.
Yep. It is sad when anyone dies of an overdose.
There is NO CURSE on the Kennedy Family. Most families experience such “tragedies”. The suffer quietly. The Kennedys just get more press.
There is NO CURSE on the Kennedy Family. Most families experience such “tragedies”. The suffer quietly. The Kennedys just get more press.
Yep
... and so forth and so on...
I have no sympathy for people who have everything and are nothing themselves. These are the types who attempt to run everybody else's life but cannot run their own.
It really wasn’t the evil of running booze as I understand. It is what he did with the booze money: he manipulated the stock market (salting the mine as it were) and pulled all of his cash out right before the crash he helped create.
Paul Hill
see # 38
Deefield Academy — founded 1797, one of the oldest secondary schools in the US (six years after the end of the Revolution).
Grades 9-12 college prep.
Tuition:
$61,480 boarding
$44,735 day
Financial aid grants: to 36% of its students, meaning the average financial aid grant is $50,096 a year, for certain “needy” students. (One wonders how “needy” is determined, is it diversity?)
So, who do the townie drug dealers target— those who can afford. It is an old story.
One other “influence” is the competition with Choate (another “storied” lib whacko source of....substance whatever).
Dead at 22-— depressed (her parents— take a look at that). And, whether Hill was (or still is IRA), he was (and maybe still is) a contact for the good olde Boston tradition of “donating” to Northern Ireland Aid-— NORAID, the money source for IRA ..... volumes about them, then and now and the interconnex with Libya, and ME terror groups.
Sounds like this is as likely to be suicide as an accident.
“Wonder why no mention of who raped her?”
Fixed it for you:
Wonder why she didn’t name the family member who raped her?
“I was drunk and drugged”.... Ugh, one of those didn’t-sign-the-consent-form cases.
It’s pronounced “Sorcha.” It’s Gaelic.
Not only trafficking but would some how figure out how to get a “seizure tax” on all the dope that is seized by the the cops.
Similar to the import liquor tax the get on every bottle of imported whiskey.
I don’t know that most families “suffer” what the Kennedys “suffer.” They are a bunch of booze/drug addicts and sexual obsessives who have dirtied up everyone they come in contact with. They make Daisy and Tom Buchanan look like saints. They are bad news and she’s just the latest female victim.
My grandmother was a rabid worshipper of the Kennedy clan. She had a wall on which she placed the commemorative plates she purchased for the liberal “saints”. She had a place shelf on which she had places of FDR, Harry S Truman, JFK and RFK. There was room for one more plate. She was hoping it would be for LBJ after he died. I hoped it would be for Ted “The Wizard of Ahs” Kennedy. We were both disappointed as she died before LBJ and Uncle Teddy surprised me by lasting another forty-odd years before he kumpfted.
Ironically, the Kennedys would be considered CONSERVATIVES by today’s standards...............
Well, at least she had Truman up there.
...but they know what’s best for us.
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Many who want to tell the rest of us how live are often doing so to avoid acknowledging their own inadequacies and the mess they’ve made of their own lives.
Fentanyl-laced drugs, probably.
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