NEW YORK — The New York City Administration of Children’s Services botched its handling of the troubled Brooklyn mom accused of drowning her three children, failing to conduct a mental health evaluation of the woman just two months ago, a source told the New York Daily News on Wednesday.
“She fell through the cracks,” the source said of 30-year-old Erin Merdy, who was charged with murder Wednesday in the horrific deaths of her 7-year-old son, 4-year-old daughter and 3-month-old son on Coney Island Beach in Brooklyn. The source is familiar with Merdy’s dealings with ACS.
ACS opened a 2020 investigation after Merdy’s oldest child stopped showing up for school and she remained under the agency’s watch until this past July, according to the source.
