Erin Merdy was charged with murder Wednesday in the horrific deaths of her 7-year-old son, 4-year-old daughter and 3-month-old son.
failing to conduct a mental health evaluation of the woman just two months ago, a source told the New York Daily News on Wednesday.
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. The call about the school absences came from one of the mother’s boyfriends, with the NYPD investigating before turning the case over to ACA, a high-ranking police source told the Daily News. There were never any allegations made that Merdy was violent or abusive to the kids, the source added.
Merdy, after voluntarily checking into a hospital with postpartum depression following the birth of her third child, was released and ACS ended its probe without conducting a mental health examination of the mom, the source said.
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