Saoirse Kennedy Hill, found dead at her family's Cape Cod compound, battled depression.
Depression was the unwanted “friend” of the Robert F. Kennedy granddaughter whose death at the family’s storied Cape Cod compound was being investigated Friday by police.
Saoirse Kennedy Hill, 22, a junior at Boston College, wrote frankly about her struggle with mental illness in a 2016 essay for the student newspaper at the Massachusetts prep school she had previously attended. Hill revealed that the “deep sadness that felt like a heavy boulder on my chest” she first felt in middle school had returned two weeks before her junior year at Deerfield Academy after “someone I knew and loved broke serious sexual boundaries with me.”The Deerfield ScrollHill, who was one of Robert and Ethel Kennedy’s 35 grandchildren, did not identify the “someone.” But her poignant words surfaced as the Kennedy family was forced, once again, to grapple with tragedy.
“The cause and manner of death are pending the toxicology report," Tara Miltimore of the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office said. “The matter remains under investigation by the Barnstable police and State Police detectives assigned to the District Attorney’s Office.” Hill was the daughter of Paul Hill and Courtney Kennedy, the fifth of the 11 children of Robert Kennedy, the former U.S. attorney general and New York senator who was assassinated in 1968 as he sought the Democratic presidential nomination.
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