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Mother suspected of drowning her 3 children at Coney Island beach could face charges today

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CONEY ISLAND, Brooklyn (WABC) — The mom who’s accused of drowning her three youngsters could also be arraigned right this moment on the hospital if she’s unable to depart.

Authorities are wanting into whether or not postpartum despair that led to postpartum psychosis performed a task within the 30-year-old mom’s actions.

Police say she informed her members of the family she drowned her youngsters however will not converse to investigators.

“To date, she’s not mentioned something,” NYPD Chief of Division Kenneth Corey mentioned.

The lifeless our bodies of her three children 7-year-old Zachary Merdy, 4-year-old Lilana and 3-month-old Oliver Bondarev have been discovered on the shoreline of a Coney Island seashore after an in depth search.

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Police first discovered of the kids’s disappearance early Monday morning when a involved member of the family referred to as saying somebody could have harmed them.

When officers arrived on the residence on Neptune Avenue, a person who recognized himself as the daddy of the three youngsters answered the door and informed police he believed the mom was with the kids on the boardwalk.

Officers then started to canvas the boardwalk and surrounding space for any signal of the mom or youngsters.

Ninety minutes later police received a name from members of the family who have been with the mom on the boardwalk, about two miles from the place the kids have been discovered.

“The mom was soaking moist,” Corey mentioned. “Whether or not she had been out within the rain or whether or not she had been within the water is all speculative at this level. She was moist, she was barefoot, and she or he was not communicative to the officers.”

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Police say she is presently at NYU Langone Hospital Brooklyn.

The mom has prior incidents of harassment and aggravated harassment that didn’t lead to expenses.

She has no prior arrests or a historical past of being emotionally disturbed.

Police say the actions seem like premeditated and never one thing that occurred on the spur of a second, and detectives are wanting into her previous and interviewing neighbors and kin to find out what had transpired.

She has not but been charged.

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Police are asking anybody who could have seen the mom and youngsters at anytime final night time or early this morning to name the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

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