{"id":23397,"date":"2022-09-17T12:14:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T16:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=23397"},"modified":"2022-09-17T12:14:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T16:14:13","slug":"mother-arraigned-on-murder-charges-after-her-three-children-drowned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2022\/09\/17\/mother-arraigned-on-murder-charges-after-her-three-children-drowned\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother arraigned on murder charges after her three children drowned"},"content":{"rendered":"

A mother charged with drowning her three children at New York’s Coney Island beach has been arraigned on murder charges.<\/p>\n

Erin Merdy faces three counts of second-degree murder, three counts of depraved indifference to human life, and three counts of murder where the victims are under 11 years old.<\/p>\n

Merdy’s children – seven-year-old Zachary Merdy, four-year-old Lilana Merdy, and three-month-old Oliver Bondarev – were found unconscious near the water’s edge in the early hours of Monday after a three-hour search.<\/p>\n

The search had started after a relative phoned police, concerned for the children’s welfare.<\/p>\n

Merdy was found barefoot and soaking wet, two miles from the scene, Police Chief Kenneth Corey said earlier in the week.<\/p>\n

NBC New York said the 30-year-old mother had been in hospital since her children were found dead.<\/p>\n

Merdy’s mother Jacqueline Scott, 56, told the Daily News that she was a loving mother but had been struggling recently.<\/p>\n

Ms Scott said: “She might have been going through postpartum depression.<\/p>\n

“She was a good mother.<\/p>\n

“I reached out to her (on Sunday – the day before the children were found dead) and she said she was doing laundry and I said I wanted to speak to the kids.<\/p>\n

“I tried to call her twice on the phone after that and there was no answer.”<\/p>\n

Derrick Merdy, a navy veteran, told the New York Times he was the father of Zachary, but neither of the other children.<\/p>\n

He said he and Merdy had met on Facebook and married in 2014, breaking up shortly after Zachary was born in March 2015.<\/p>\n

Mr Merdy said he had been fighting for custody of the little boy, describing his ex-wife as unreliable.<\/p>\n

When Zachary visited, he was often dirty and did not have enough clothing, Mr Merdy said.<\/p>\n

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Source: \u00a0\"Sky<\/a> news.sky.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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