Shamir Small said his ex, Erin Merdy, 30, loved their four-year-old daughter Lily Stephen, even though she drowned the girl and her two half siblings last week.
A New York City mom who has been charged with murdering her three children by drowning them on a Coney Island beach reportedly slipped through the cracks of a child welfare agency.
Erin Merdy, 30, was found in early hours of Monday morning wandering barefoot and soaking wet, about 2 miles from where children were discovered at the water s edge off of Brighton Beach
Newly released heartbreaking pictures show four-year-old Liliana Stephen smiling happily before she was tragically drowned on Monday alongside her two brothers.