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A Brooklyn mom with a history of mental health issues, is suspected of drowning her three young kids on Coney Island beach early Monday, after she confessed to her family that she killed them.
The tragic killing of siblings, a 4-month-old boy, a 4-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy, were found unresponsive around 4:40 a.m. along the shoreline at West 35th Street, just three blocks from their mother’s apartment.
“The mom, 30, told relatives she drowned all three kids and was later found walking along the beach barefoot and in a robe, appearing despondent,” cops and sources said.
“The mother was soaking wet,” NYPD Chief of Department Kenneth Corey said at a press conference. “Whether she had been out in the rain or whether she had been in the water, again, is all speculative at this point. She was wet, she was barefoot, and she was not communicative to the officers.”
She was initially taken to the 60th Precinct for questioning and then carted off on a stretcher to NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn.
An intensive search for the mother and the kids started about three hours before the children were found on the beach, when a relative called police, saying she feared that the mom might have harmed the children.
Police responded to the family’s apartment on Neptune Avenue near West 33rd Street around 1:40 a.m.
There was no response to knocking at the door, but officers were met by a father of one of the kids inside the building.
The father expressed similar concerns as the family member who reported the incident. He told officers that he believed that they were on Coney Island Beach.
“I believe that she had called them and made statements to them to that effect,” Corey said of the relatives, when asked why the family members believed the woman would harm her kids.
Law enforcement sources said numerous family members had called 911 to report the mom may have done something to the kids, she might be under the influence of alcohol or drugs and has a history of mental health issues.
One of those relatives eventually found the mom on the beach and said she admitted she’d drowned all three kids.
Police swarmed the boardwalk, the shoreline and the surrounding streets for about 90 minutes before they received another 911 call sending them to the Brighton Beach boardwalk, near Beach 6th Street.
That’s where officers found the children’s mother with some of her relatives, but all three kids were nowhere to be found.
The search then intensified, with the NYPD’s aviation and harbor units helping to search the area for the missing kids.
Authorities made the heartbreaking discovery of the children’s unresponsive bodies about 2 miles from where their mother was found.
“The officers immediately initiated life-saving measures including CPR on the children, and the kids were rushed to Coney Island Hospital, where they were regrettably pronounced deceased,” Corey said.
Distressing photos show first responders running through the sand, carrying the lifeless children in their arms. Later, the mom was photographed strapped to a gurney as EMS workers wheeled her into NYU Langone.
Autopsies for the children are under way, and no charges have been filed.
“Right now we are looking for witnesses,” Corey said. “We don’t know exactly what happened here yet. We’re going to try to piece this all together.”
It’s unclear if the mother has a history of abusing or neglecting the three kids.
Liberals and their damn fixation with kids. : (
Sad and heinous crime! My question is: why wasn’t the father out desperately searching for his child and the other 2 children? Why was he home? No sympathy for the “mother” for murdering her children….NONE.
Really says a lot about a human being when they use the “N” word to describe another human being. Pure ignorance and downright hateful. May God bless your gross soul.
Gerald Ladd, you need to watch your mouth with the N word, as sad and troubling as it is this person clearly needed help than to take it on those poor children, so so sad for this entire family
People like you shouldn’t be breathing. I agree she did a heinous thing and needs to pay for it but the derogatory term you used can’t and should not be tolerated. There is no room for you in this world
Gerald, prayer helps a lot more than using racial slurs. I will be praying for the children’s family, as well as you, tonight.
The father? Hell, he took off as soon as she was knocked up. It’s the American negro way. Government paymore if no dad in the family, it’s a racket.
If she had a history of mental illness, why was she allowed to keep the children .and another thing why are people with mental illness even allowed too even become parents . all their doing is passing that illness On too another generation far taxpayers too Keep Up, and what does skin color have to do with it , that’s just Insulting .
You think that slug cares about anything but her government checks? F her & all others like her ass! They get nothing if I’m the boss!
The comments posted here are so very sad. Those poor children. When will the US put a dang PRIORITY on treating the mentally ill? How many more have to die. This is not a racial issue — it is a human being issue. We all bleed, we all have hearts, we are all mothers & fathers & daughters & sons — come on, people — don’t politicize this tragedy. Where is your milk of human kindness for these children and this family? SO SAD!
Get ready for more situations such as this, as our government forces pregnancy and motherhood on women.
I guess the abortion laws are to strict.
This is very sad, and the devil was all in her. The poor kids had to die because of a selfness mother. Race has nothing to do with this because there is a lot of white mothers and fathers killing and drowning their kids. Its sick and full of hate. I pray for the family I pray for the mother, but I don’t have any compassion for her.