The three children died after being found unconscious on the beach on Coney Island on Monday morning and their mother is being questioned, according to police officials.
Kenneth Corey, division manager, said the 3-month-old boy, 4-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy were found on the beach in Brooklyn when officers responded to a call from a disturbed woman. feeling. a press conference on Monday morning.
A relative, concerned that the child’s mother may have harmed them, called the Police Department at around 1:40 a.m., he said. The call may have been prompted by the mother’s statements over the phone, Sheriff Corey said.
When officers arrived at an apartment at 3325 Neptune Ave., no one answered the door, he said. However, they encountered a man inside the building who identified himself as the father of one of the children, Sheriff Corey said, and the man, also concerned about the children’s welfare, said told officers that he believed the woman and child were on the boardwalk. at Coney Island.
After a 90-minute search, officers were directed by another 911 call to the boardwalk at Brighton 6th Street and Riegelmann Boardwalk, where they found the 30-year-old woman and other relatives, but not children.
Sheriff Corey said the woman was barefoot and “soggy” when officers found her, but it’s unclear if she was in the water or was wet from the rain.
“The search is now intensifying,” Sheriff Corey said at the news conference.
Officers began searching for the children by air, by sea and along the coast, he said.
At around 4:40 a.m., officers found three unresponsive children on the beach at West 35th Street, on Coney Island, about two miles from where they found their mother. Officers began performing CPR.
The children were taken to Coney Island Hospital, where they are presumed dead.
