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Joe O'Shea

Mother of toddler drowned by her father in West Cork wins right to have body exhumed

A woman whose husband walked into the sea with their three-year-old in a horrific murder-suicide in West Cork says she has won her long battle to have her daughter's remains brought to the United States.

American woman Rebecca Saunders has campaigned to bring her daughter Clarissa’s remains 'home' to her in the US after she was buried in the same coffin as her dad Martin McCarthy.

The 50-year-old drowned the little girl at Audley Cove in West Cork on March 5, 2013 after Rebecca told him their marriage was over.

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