N SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2019 e2.60 €10 OFF THE PEOPLE’S PAPER EVERY €50 YOU SPEND AT TYRONE............0-17 DUBLIN.......5-18 ROSCOMMON...0-13 CORK...........1-17 Red hand Dubs blow SEE Ros’ the plucky SPORT finish line Cork away VOUCHER INSIDE YOUR FREE MAG+ PATRICK O’CONNELL EXCLUSIVE GRIEF: Bridget O’Donoghue tends to the grave of her ‘ two-year-old daughter, CONFESS Santina WHAT Cawley (left) YOU DID ‘ TO MY BABY n Mum of murdered Santina (2) urges killer to admit horror crime n Bridget cradled her ‘broken’ little girl as they turned off life-support FULL HEARTBREAKING INTERVIEW SEE PAGES 10&11 10 July 14, 2019 N NIGHTMARE: MUM REVEALS FULL H ‘ PURE‘ HEARTBREAK: Bridget at little Santina’s grave yesterday EVIL Mother of tragic Santina Tells how she held her Criticises TUSLA for recalls her ‘loving and little ‘broken’ baby in her taking her baby away happy’ girl and urges arms as they switched from her after tot broke child’s killer to confess off life support machine a bone in an accident THE devastated mother said more than anything she wants justice for her baby. of murdered two-year-old “I can’t sleep, I can’t eat, not Santina Cawley today di- knowing what was done to her,” rectly calls on her little girl’s she said. “I’m getting weaker every day, killer: “Confess what you but until Santina has justice... I’m did to my baby.” haunted by the not knowing. In a heartbreaking interview “There are more than 40 gardaí with the Sunday World, Sabri- working on Santina’s case. They’ve na’s mum Bridget O’Donoghue told us this is a priority. “And I believe they will get the tells how she cradled the little person who did this, but they need girl in her arms on the morn- to have everything perfect for when ing of her murder as doctors they charge them.” ANGUISH: Santina’s father Michael switched off the respirator HOSPITAL keeping her alive. at her funeral Mass yesterday Tears streaming from her eyes, DEVASTATED: Mum Bridget tells our man she wants justice for girl Recalling the moment the Bridget also reveals the full hor- Little Santina was discovered by nightmare of her daughter’s death ror of the injuries sustained by the EXCLUSIVE her father Michael lying unconscious began for her, Bridget told how BY PATRICK O’CONNELL and having suffered multiple bone gardaí came to her door at 7am on “loving and happy” little Santina, fractures, cuts and bruises, at an whose cruel death her mum today the Friday morning of the killing. so happy and she never complained. right, so I took her to the hospital,” apartment in the Elderwood Park “The garda said: ‘It’s Santina, she’s describes as “pure evil”. And now she’s here in a grave. Bridget said. complex off Boreenmanna Road in “How could you kill my baby that in hospital, you need to go there now.’ Santina was an angel. Come forward “I begged them not to take her Cork at 4.50am on Friday of last week. “I put my hands to my face and way?” she asked. and admit what you did to her. You from me, but they said they’d made Gardaí investigating Santina’s “Her little body was broken. She said: ‘Tell me she’s not dead.’ took my baby’s life… at least give her up their mind and there was nothing death arrested a woman on “But the garda said I needed to has bruises going all the way down I could do. from her neck to her feet. the justice she deserves.” Monday and she was conveyed to speak with the doctors. “Her beautiful little white teeth Bridget broke down as she revealed ANGRY Gurranabraher Garda Station for “Michael, my little 10-year-old were broken when I held her in my her anger that Tusla had removed questioning. The Sunday World came with me, and when we got to arms. I was cradling her as they Santina from her care three months “Her leg was in a cast and, because understands the woman has denied the hospital the doctors were waiting turned off the machine, I could feel ago after the toddler broke her femur I’ve the four other children, they causing the injuries to Santina. for us. There were five or six doctors the broken bones in the back of when she fell down some steps in her gave her to her father to look after Tot Santina was laid to rest following waiting in a private room where they her head. All I could think was my grandmother’s apartment. while she was recovering. her funeral Mass at the North Cathedral took me and told me that Santina beautiful little baby had been kicked “She fell down three steps in the “I’m so angry about that right now in the city on Friday. was dead… only the machine was around like a football. apartment and when she got back – if they hadn’t taken her from me Visiting her daughter’s grave breathing for her. “My poor Santina, she was always up I could see she wasn’t walking she’d still be here.” yesterday, heartbroken Bridget “When they brought me in to her, N July 14, 2019 11 L HORROR OF HER GIRL’S INJURIES GRIEF: HEARTACHE: Bridget Mum Bridget at tends to the graveside of the grave her tragic little girl and (below) Santina Santina she was freezing. They’d checked at the back of her head. It was dinged Santina five days before the murder, the person who did this to my }I can ’t her heart, but they said her heart in and there was all blood around her on the Sunday, and the little girl was daughter… monster… evil…I can’t was gone. mouth and her ears were black and full of happiness and life. describe what kind of person would describe “There was a blanket over her, but blue. The child had been brutally “She didn’t have a mark on her. She kill a baby like that… you’d have to they asked me if I wanted to hold her. and badly beaten. was perfect,” she said. be an evil, evil person.” “I said: ‘Of course,I want to hold “The doctors said they couldn’t After Bridget gave her daughter a Bridget said when Santina was what kind of my baby.’ And when I lifted her, the tell me what happened to her so I final heartbreaking kiss goodbye in placed in the coffin, she was blanket fell away and that’s when I just cradled her. the hospital, she was informed by the surrounded by the teddy bears that person saw the bruises. “I rocked her back and forth and medical staff that the little girl’s body had meant so much to her in her life. “The bruises were everywhere, all kept whispering: ‘I’m here baby, needed to be removed to undergo a up and down her legs, her chest, all wake up, wake up for mommy.’ post-mortem investigation. ANGEL would kill a the way up to her neck. Bridget said the one chink of light “And then Michael said: ‘Mommy, SORRY in the darkest of weeks imaginable “We buried her with her Barney baby look at her teeth.’ Santina had the most came when she heard on Monday bear, a unicorn, a truck and her like lovely white little teeth, but they were “I’m sorry baby, I’m sorry I wasn’t that gardaí had arrested a woman in Peppa pig. all pushed back and chipped. there for you. It’s not my fault, it’s connection with the murder. “Santina was an angel – I didn’t that… you “We had to close her mouth in the not my fault… if you were with me, “I thought: ‘Thank God, they’ve want her to be alone.” coffin and put a polo neck inside her you’d still be alive. got someone.’ So, when they released Anyone with information relevant would lovely pink flowery dress to cover the “I can’t explain how someone her without charge, that was so hard to the case is asked to contact gardaí have bruises on her neck. would do this to my baby.I had such because it meant we knew nothing at Anglesea Street station on 021 “When I picked her up and was plans for her.” all over again. That broke my heart. 4522000 or the Garda Confidential to be evil rocking her, I could feel the damage Bridget said she had seen little “I don’t have the words to describe Line on 1800 666 111. ~ SFNN SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2019 e2.60 INSURANCE NIGHTMARES THE PEOPLE’S PAPER SIX-PAGE-SPECIAL – STARTS ON PAGE 22 EXCLUSIVE Housing PATRICK O’CONNELL EXCLUSIVE racket suspect jailed... 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