The 30-year-old mother was arraigned on charges of first-degree murder, plus three counts each of second-degree murder and three counts of depraved indifference for human life.
Erin Merdy, who appeared virtually for an arraignment in Brooklyn criminal court from her hospital bed at Lutheran Medical Center, was remanded back into custody. She did not enter a plea and is due back in court Tuesday.Mother of three children who drowned in Brooklyn arrested and charged with second-degree murderWearing a yellow hospital gown, she sat up on a gurney and leaned to one side, answering only,"Yes," to questions posed early in the session by city Judge Archana Rao.
Read MoreEarlier that morning, she'd been seen walking with all three of her children -- a 7-year-old boy, a 4-year-old girl and a 3-and-a-half-month-old girl -- on the famed Coney Island Boardwalk, Ingle said.Police work where the children were found on the shoreline.Relatives later called police after Merdy allegedly told them,"The babies are gone," and,"The kids are gone.
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