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The call from Canada was unexpected, shocking and heartbreaking.

Naomi Woodyatt learned that her 79-year-old father Martin had died in his sleep at his home in Burlington.

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She was at her home in Cork, Ireland, where she has lived for the past eight years. It was late August.

But the heart-crunching loss of her beloved father was just the beginning of a nightmare for the 43-year-old marketing whiz.

On the night before she was slated to fly home to Canada, a passport mix-up landed her in an airport hotel. A fast drink at the hotel’s bar ended with her in hazy agony in her room the next morning.

Woodyatt had been drugged and raped.

“None of us were expecting him to pass away, his health had gotten worse but still I was just a wreck,” the mom of three told The Toronto Sun. “I spent three days crying.”

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There was a small problem with her Canadian passport she needed to resolve before she got on the plane. Unfortunately, it was a Sunday and the embassy in Dublin was closed.