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Ellen Moynihan, Leonard Greene

Father of girl drowned at Coney Island with her siblings says mom accused of killing them was no monster

The troubled woman accused of drowning her own children in the waters off Coney Island is no monster, said the father of one of the kids at a touching sendoff Monday.

“Contrary to what happened, she was loved by her mother,” said grieving dad Shamir Small after the funeral for his 4-year-old daughter Liliana Stephen, one of three siblings killed early Sept. 12.

“I don’t care what no one says, what she did was monstrous, but she herself is not a monster.”

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