The curse continues: Bob Kennedy's granddaughter died of an overdose | Chronic

Tragedy brings back the Kennedy family, the most famous and politically influential family in the United States. In this case, another young death. Saoirse Roisin Hill22 years old, granddaughter of Bob Kennedy, was found dead in the Cape Cod family home by an alleged overdose.

Saoirse was the daughter of Courtney Kennedy Hill, daughter of the murdered presidential candidate, who was 11 when his father died in 1968. "The world is a little less beautiful nowadays", He said in a statement Ethel Kennedy91 years old, widow of Robert F. Kennedy, brother of the former president John F. Kennedy.

According to official reports, Saoirse Roisin Hill died Thursday afternoon after the paramedics could not revive her. The young woman, three years ago, had written a touching chronicle in The Deerfield Scroll, the student paper of the Deerfield Academy, on how to fight the depression that afflicted her and acknowledged that she was the only one in the world. she had tried to commit suicide.

In the column, the girl also revealed to have been badually badaulted by one of her clbadmates. The anxiety was unbearable: "I did the worst thing a victim could do and I claimed that it had not happened. All of this became too difficult and I tried to kill myself. ".

"I fought for human rights and the advancement of women, worked with indigenous communities to build schools in Mexico"the family added in the statement.

She was also known for her political activism, very interested in the #metoo movement and arms control. In addition, he was Vice President of University Democrats at Boston College. Saoirse spent part of her childhood in Ireland.

Is that your father, Paul Michael Hill, is one of the "The four of Guildford", who were falsely accused of being involved in attacks by the Republican Irish Army (IRA). The man spent 15 years in prison and, in 1993, when his sentence was rescinded and was released, he married the mother of the young woman. The wedding is separate in 2006.

In this way, the death of the young woman adds to the tragic family history that began on November 22, 1963, when the then US President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy , was murdered in Dallas.