Mother Charged With Murder in Drowning Deaths of 3 Children in New York’s Coney Island

Police work along a stretch of beach at Coney Island which is now a crime scene after a mother is suspected of drowning her children in the ocean, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, on Sept. 12, 2022. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

A New York City mother of three, whose children were found drowned near a Coney Island boardwalk earlier this week, has been arrested on murder charges, officials have said.

Erin Merdy, 30, has been charged with three counts of intended murder and three counts of depraved indifference, a police official told The Epoch Times.