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发帖数: 2555 | 1 The granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy had taken her family to Maryland and
was staying at her mother’s house to escape the coronavirus, her grief-
stricken husband said.
Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, 40, and her 8-year-old son Gideon McKean were
in a canoe in Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis when they disappeared Thursday.
The Coast Guard called off the search Friday night.
“It is clear that Maeve and Gideon have passed away,” McKean’s husband
said on Facebook Friday.
“We were self-quarantining in an empty house owned by Maeve’s mother
Kathleen on the Chesapeake Bay, hoping to give our kids more space than we
have at home in DC to run around,” David McKean said.
He said his wife and son got in the canoe to chase a ball that went into the
water as the two of them were playing a game of kickball near a small,
shallow cove behind the house.
"They got into a canoe, intending simply to retrieve the ball, and somehow
got pushed by wind or tide into the open bay," McKean said. "About 30
minutes later they were spotted by an onlooker from land, who saw them far
out from shore, and called the police. After that last sighting, they were
not seen again. The Coast Guard recovered their canoe, which was capsized
and miles away, at approximately 6:30 (Thursday) evening."
McKean was the daughter of RFK’s oldest child, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a
former Maryland lieutenant governor.
Gideon was “deeply compassionate, declining to sing children’s songs if
they contained a hint of animals or people being treated cruelly," McKean
said of his son.
He said of his wife: “She was my everything.”
McKean was the mother of two other children, Gabriella, 7, and Toby, 2. |
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