Clarissa’s Cause: Campaign begins to exhume little girl buried in her killer's arms

Clarissa McCarthy was just three years old when she was drowned by her father, Martin McCarthy, who then took his own life
Clarissa’s Cause: Campaign begins to exhume little girl buried in her killer's arms

Rebecca Saunders whose husband Martin drowned their little girl, Clarissa and then himself.

A campaign to exhume the body of a little girl who was buried in the arms of the man who killed her - her father - has begun.

Clarissa McCarthy was just three years old when she was drowned by her father, Martin McCarthy, who then took his own life, on Audley Cove, a little beach below their farm outside Ballydehob, West Cork on March 5, 2013.

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