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Mom Who Drowned 3 Children at NYC Beach Gets 20 Years to Life

Three young lives were lost in an act that left a city searching for words.

A Brooklyn woman was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison on Wednesday for drowning her three young children in the ocean near Coney Island's famed boardwalk. Erin Merdy, 34, pleaded guilty earlier this year to first-degree murder charges in the 2022 killing of her 7-year-old son Zachary, her 4-year-old daughter Liliana and her 3-month-old son Oliver. More on this from ABC 7 Eyewitness News.




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