In 2015, Sarah was just eight years old when her father, Limerick native Jason Corbett, was killed at their home in North Carolina.
Sarah’s stepmother, Molly Martens, and her father, Tom Martens, were initially convicted of second-degree murder.
After a lengthy legal battle, Molly and Tom saw an appeal overturned and accepted a plea deal of voluntary manslaughter in November 2023.
Nearly ten years after her father’s death, Sarah released a book titled "A Time for Truth".
The book featured the young girl reflecting on the aftermath of her father’s death and the family’s battle for justice.
Jason Corbett, Molly Martens, with Jack and Sarah.
It also highlighted their devastation when the Martens were released from prison in 2024, after serving just three and a half years.
Taking to social media this week, a defiant Sarah said her father "doesn’t get to start over."
She wrote: "An article has been published today about Molly Martens’ life now. I’m sharing it because I will not stay silent while the world moves on and the truth gets softened. My Dad, Jason Corbett, doesn’t get to start over. He is buried a mile from where I live, alongside my birth Mother.
"As a child, I lived through coercive control and abuse. I know exactly what it does to a child – how it steals your voice, your safety, your sense of reality. Finding my voice again has taken years.
"That is why I wrote A Time for Truth. Not for attention – but to shine a light on injustice, to tell the story from the child’s perspective, and to stand with every victim who has been silenced, manipulated, or disbelieved.
Jason Corbett.
"It’s also why I participated in the Netflix documentary – because the impact on children matters. And if this conversation helps even one person recognise coercive control, leave a dangerous situation, or protect a child, then speaking out matters."
The Netflix documentary ["A Deadly American Marriage"], released in May last year, detailed interviews with Molly and Tom Martens, in which they continued to claim they acted in self-defence.
Sarah and her brother, Jack, also gave interviews, sharing memories of their father.
Sarah added: "Read the article if you choose – but please, I’m asking you: don’t reduce my father’s life, or my childhood, to gossip. This is an important conversation. If you comment here, do it with respect. Thank you"
* This article was originally published on Extra.ie.
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