Brooklyn mother who drowned her three children in the ocean near Coney Island sentenced to decades in prison

A Brooklyn pistillate who drowned her 3 children successful the Atlantic Ocean adjacent Coney Island’s celebrated boardwalk volition walk decades down bars.

Erin Merdy, 34, was sentenced Wednesday aft pleading blameworthy earlier this twelvemonth to first-degree execution charges successful the 2022 deaths of her 7-year-old lad Zachary, her 4-year-old girl Liliana and her 3-month-old lad Oliver.

"No condemnation tin afloat measurement the nonaccomplishment of a seven-year-old, a four-year-old and a three-month-old baby, oregon the grief their loved ones volition transportation forever," Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said successful a statement.

"We sought the strongest imaginable accountability successful this devastating case, and portion thing tin bring these children back, this condemnation ensures the suspect volition beryllium held liable for taking their lives," helium added.

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New York Police investigators analyse a agelong of formation astatine Coney Island wherever 3 children were recovered dormant successful the surf, Sept. 12, 2022, successful New York. (AP Photo/Joseph Frederick)

Gonzalez said the children’s lives were taken "in the astir heartbreaking and unthinkable way."

The children were recovered the greeting of Sept. 12, 2022, aft 1 of Merdy’s relatives called 911 expressing interest the children mightiness beryllium successful danger.

Prosecutors said Merdy near the formation astir 1:25 a.m. and began walking toward the flat of the begetter of her youngest child.

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The children of Erin Merdy, 30, were recovered unconscious adjacent the shoreline of Coney Island Beach during a frantic overnight hunt aboriginal Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. (Theodore Parisienne/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Authorities aboriginal recovered Merdy barefoot and soaking bedewed astir 2 miles from wherever the children were discovered.

According to prosecutors, Merdy repeatedly said the children were gone and that she was sorry.

The children’s bodies were recovered hours aboriginal on the shoreline conscionable steps from the boardwalk.

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A Brooklyn pistillate was sentenced to decades successful situation successful transportation with the drowning deaths of her 3 children. (Theodore Parisienne/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

The metropolis aesculapian examiner ruled the deaths homicides caused by drowning.

Prosecutors said surveillance video showed Merdy walking toward the water with the children soon earlier 1 a.m.

Merdy’s parent told the New York Daily News astatine the clip that her girl had precocious struggled with intelligence wellness issues and whitethorn person been experiencing postpartum depression.

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"I reached retired to her yesterday and she said she was doing laundry and I said I wanted to talk to the kids," Jacqueline Scott, 56, told the outlet. "I tried to telephone her doubly connected the telephone aft that and determination was nary answer."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.