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Brooklyn Woman Sentenced to 20 Years to Life for Drowning Children

Published 21 May 2026

A Brooklyn woman was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years to life in prison for drowning her three young children in the Atlantic Ocean near Coney Island in 2022. Erin Merdy, 34, pleaded guilty earlier this year to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children, 7-year-old Zachary Merdy, 4-year-old Lilian...

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