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Sean Murphy & Lucy Skoulding

Mum exhumes child, 3, buried with dad who murdered her over fears she 'abandoned her'

A heartbroken mum whose husband murdered their daughter in 2013 said she exhumed her child's body over worries she had "abandoned her".

Rebecca Saunders was 26-years-old when her husband, Martin McCarthy, 50, drowned three-year-old Clarissa and then killed himself.

The two were buried together in Cork, Ireland in 2013, but Rebecca had Clarissa's remains exhumed last Friday, reports the Irish Mirror.

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