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Person: Clarissa McCarthy

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<p>Rebecca Saunders, with a picture of her beloved daughter Clarissa McCarthy. </p>

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Clarissa's Cause: Mum Rebecca donates extra funds to charities
More than $50,000 has been donated to help Rebecca Saunders exhume the body of her daughter Clarissa McCarthy to bring it back to America with her
<p>Rebecca Saunders told the <span class="contextmenu quote">Irish Examiner</span> how her husband Martin had drowned their little girl, Clarissa, and then himself.</p>

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Clarissa's mum turns her focus to exhumation following surge of Gofundme support
<p>Clarissa McCarthy's grave, with Schull Harbour, West Cork, in the background. </p>

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Clarissa’s Cause fundraising appeal surpasses target
Support for Clarissa’s Cause ‘has truly touched my heart’, says mum

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Support for Clarissa’s Cause ‘has truly touched my heart’, says mum

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Protecting the little innocents
Laid to rest together
Laid to rest together

Little Clarissa McCarthy was laid to rest in a single coffin in the arms of her devoted father who had carried the 3-year-old into the pitch-black waters of West Cork earlier in the week.

Sat, 09 Mar, 2013

‘A great father, he adored that little girl’
‘A great father, he adored that little girl’
Martin McCarthy was a confirmed bachelor until his wife-to-be Rebecca rambled into his life in the mid-2000s.

Thu, 07 Mar, 2013

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