When we cried, she told us he’s dead and to get over it
Jason Corbett’s daughter Sarah recalls words of her dad’s killer over ice cream after his death
JASON Corbett’s daughter has claimed that Molly Martens told her to ‘get over it’ the day after bludgeoning the Limerick man to death.
Sarah Corbett, 14, said having an ice cream during the recent good weather triggered a memory from the day after Molly and her father, Thomas Martens, killed Jason in August 2015.
Sarah wrote a Facebook post claiming that Molly Martens had taken her and her brother Jack out for ice cream the day after her father’s death.
The memory was triggered when Sarah recently enjoyed an ice cream with Jason’s sister, Tracey, who is now her legal guardian.
Sharing a photo on her social media account, Sarah wrote: ‘Today is a sunny day, my Mam, Tracey, brought me for ice cream. It made me think of how Molly Martens brought me and Jack for an ice cream the day after killing my Dad.
‘When we cried, she told us he’s dead and to just get over it. My Dad, Jason Corbett, was murdered by her and I know today she has the freedom to walk into any shop and buy whatever she wants including an ice cream.
‘I didn’t want the ice cream anymore,’ she added.
‘Heartbreaking and so difficult’
The Facebook post ended with the hashtag #Elle – a reference to Elle magazine, which Sarah and her family have criticised for publishing a recent article that cast doubt on Molly Martens’s guilt.
Dozens of people responded positively to her post.
Jason’s sister Marilyn Corbett wrote: ‘Sarah, both you and Jack have been left with scars where the wounds continue to open by the very people who coldly created them and cruelly ignores your suffering for their own gain by the ongoing lies to try save their own lives. It’s heartbreaking and so difficult for you both. Love you loads and loads.’
Sarah’s godmother Lynn Shanahan wrote: ‘Sarah, she may be free to buy ice cream right now but she won’t be for long... in prison, or out of it, she will never feel the love you have in your heart and the love that surrounds you everyday xx. I hope ur snuggled up in Tracey’s arms right now xx.’
Ms Shanahan also wrote a Facebook post yesterday about a book by Molly Martens’s exfiancée, in which he addressed her disturbed personality. In the book, Turning This Thing Around, author Keith Maginn called Molly Martens ‘Mary’ to hide her identity.
‘I remember being totally shocked, when I found out about this book,’ Ms Shanahan wrote yesterday.
‘I was also so angry that parents could let their daughter, with her many mental health issues and straight out of an institution, after trying to regulate the 22 tablets a day Molly was taking, to travel to work with a family in Ireland.’
She recalled that Molly Martens took a job as an au pair for Sarah and Jack after their mother, Mags, died from an asthma attack.
She wrote: ‘Molly travelled to a very vulnerable family. Jason was still reeling from the loss of the love of his life Mags. Jason and Mags’s children were only two-and-a-half-year-old Jack and 12-week-old baby Sarah, when Mags died of an asthma attack.
‘This book shows what it is like to live with Molly Martens right up to her leaving the
States and moving to Ireland.
‘Keith Maginn’s book, Turning This Thing Around, and Tracey Corbett Lynch’s book, My Brother Jason, are not fiction, they are a true account of what it was like to live with Molly Martens.’
Molly Martens had previously confided in Lynn that she was considering seeking custody of Sarah and Jack if she divorced Jason. She and her father later beat 39-year-old Jason to death at the North Carolina home he shared with Molly.
Molly Martens, 37, and her father Thomas, 71, a former FBI agent, walked free from jail earlier this month following a successful appeal, which secured them a retrial.
In 2017, the two had been found guilty of murdering Mr Corbett in 2015, and spent several years in prison before winning their appeal.
They were granted bail and released on a bond of $200,000 at the start of this month, and now await their retrial.
‘Jason was still reeling’