We’ve kept the family informed at every step during the search, and our thoughts are with them tonight.”Authorities have called off the search for Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean and her 8-year-old son, Gideon Joseph Kennedy McKean, who went out in a canoe on the Chesapeake Bay Thursday and didn’t return to shore . Mike Pont/Getty Images for Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights) David McKean, Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean and family at an event in New York City in December 2018. “It has been more than 24 hours, and the chances they have survived are impossibly small,” David McKean wrote in a Facebook post on Friday night. “It is clear that Maeve and Gideon have passed away.”McKean, 40, was the executive director of the Georgetown University Global Health Initiative, and taught human rights and bioethics and human rights, according to USA Today. She was the granddaughter of the late Attorney General and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and grandniece of former President John F. Kennedy.

Source: Huffington Post April 04, 2020 15:56 UTC