Corbett children ‘happy as Larry’ to be in care of aunt and uncle

The Limerick grandmother of the two Corbett children who are finally in the care of their aunt and uncle last night told how her granddaughter had told her on the phone “she was happy as Larry, and she loves me”.

Rita Corbett and her husband John, whose son Jason was bludgeoned to death in his home in North Carolina on August 2, told the Irish Examiner of the nightmare they have gone through since the death of their youngest son and not knowing if they would ever again see Jack, 10, and Sarah, 8.

The children’s stepmother, Molly Martens, 32, had been fighting for custody of the children since Mr Corbett’s brutal death.