‘Nothing Can Bring These Children Back’ — Brooklyn Mom Gets 20 Years To Life In Prison For Drowning Her 3 Kids Under Age 7 In Ocean
Relatives suggested Erin Merdy, may have been suffering from postpartum depression when she drowned her three children, just 7 years old, 4 years old, and 3 months old, near their Coney Island home in 2022. The post ‘Nothing Can Bring These Children Back’ — Brooklyn Mom Gets 20 Years To Life In Prison For Drowning Her 3 Kids Under Age 7 In Ocean appeared first on MadameNoire.
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Erin Merdy, the Brooklyn mother convicted of drowning her three young children in the ocean near their Coney Island home in 2022, has been sentenced to 20 years to life in prison, according to a press release from the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office. The victims were just 7 years old, 4 years old, and 3 months old.
On May 20, Merdy, 34, was sentenced by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun to 20 years to life in prison, despite prosecutors seeking a harsher sentence. She pleaded guilty on March 4, 2026, to three counts of first-degree murder.
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