Erin Merdy, 34, was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for drowning her three young children at Coney Island. She pleaded guilty in March to three counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Zachary, 7, Liliana, 4, and Oliver, 3 months old. Prosecutors said she took the children to the beach after midnight on September 12, 2022, and drowned them in the ocean. Around 1:25 a.m., she walked from the beach toward the youngest child’s father’s apartment and called family members while appearing upset and refusing to answer questions about the children’s whereabouts. Family members searched and called 911. Police found the children unresponsive and wet on the shoreline at about 4:30 a.m., and they were pronounced dead at Coney Island Hospital.
"Erin Merdy, 34, pleaded guilty in March to three counts of first-degree murder in the killings of her children Zachary Merdy, 7; Liliana Stephens Merdy, 4; and Oliver Bondarev, 3 months old on September 12, 2022, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement. Merdy's attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Zachary, Liliana and Oliver were innocent children whose lives were taken in the most heartbreaking and unthinkable way, Gonzalez said in the statement."
"Prosecutors said Merdy took the children to the beach about 12:37 a.m. that night nearly four years ago and drowned them. At about 1:25 a.m., she walked from the beach toward the apartment of the father of the youngest child and called family members. She was upset and would not answer questions about where the children were, according to the statement."
"The father and family members went to look for her and called 911. At about 4:30 a.m. police found the children, unresponsive and wet, on the Coney Island shoreline, according to the statement. They were pronounced dead at Coney Island Hospital. Prosecutors said family members found Merdy wet and barefoot in nearby"
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