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

Rebecca Saunders, with a picture of her beloved daughter Clarissa McCarthy. 

A mother who is campaigning to have her little girl’s remains removed from the coffin of the man who killed her has donated €10,000 to Cork charities, thanks to the public’s support.

Rebecca Saunders first spoke publicly to the Irish Examiner about how difficult it was to have her precious daughter Clarissa McCarthy – her only child at the time – buried in the same coffin as her father, Martin McCarthy, the man who killed her.