NYC mom suspected of drowning her 3 kids was facing eviction, battling custody issues

Erin Merdy, 30, of Coney Island owed more than $10,000 in back rent for her Neptune Avenue apartment, where she lived with her children and had been threatened with getting booted out since January, after the state’s COVID-19 eviction moratorium expired, court records show.

The mom, who allegedly told kin she drowned her kids — 3-month-old Oliver, 4-year-old Liliana and 7-year-old Zachary – on a nearby beach early Monday, had stopped paying her $1,531-a-month rent in July 2021 and was served with an eviction notice days before the moratorium expired in January, records show.