Heartbreaking photos show smiling 4-year-old Liliana Stephen who drowned in Coney Island alongside her 2 siblings

Heartbreaking images present the enormous, beaming smile of the 4-year-old lady who was allegedly drowned alongside her two siblings by their disturbed mother in Coney Island this week.

Little Liliana Stephen — who died early Monday — is captured grinning joyfully in a collection of snaps launched by her heartbroken dad, Shamir Small.

Little Liliana Stephen, 4, smiles within the pics, together with this considered one of her taking part in with a doll.

One of many snaps exhibits Liliana and her dad each smiling alongside the teen’s mother, Erin Merdy, who's now charged together with her homicide.

In a single, the teen and her dad each smile on the digital camera — whereas the lady’s accused assassin, mother Erin Merdy, seems off to the aspect with a critical expression whereas consuming.

One other snap exhibits little Liliana smiling on the digital camera whereas taking part in with a doll, whereas one other exhibits her within the automobile together with her dad whereas seemingly dressed for ballet class.

Liliana Stephen wearing ballet apparel whereas together with her dad, Erin Merdy’s ex Shamir Small.

The snaps emerged after her 30-year-old mother allegedly confessed to drowning Liliana in addition to her two different kids: Zachary Merdy, 7, and 3-month-old Oliver Bondarev.

Merdy was hit with 9 costs — intentional homicide, homicide with wicked indifference and homicide of a sufferer lower than 11 years previous for every of the three youngsters, cops stated.

Merdy has been hospitalized at NYU Langone Brooklyn’s psychiatric ward since late Monday morning and it’s unclear when she’ll be arraigned on the costs.

She had been captured in surveillance footage early Monday strolling from her Neptune Avenue house to the Coney Island boardwalk together with her three kids in tow — then leaving alone.

Kin raised the alarm as a result of the mother — who might have been affected by postpartum despair — had been performing unusually and making disturbing feedback about her youngsters.

Accused killer mother Erin Merdy, 30, has been hospitalized since quickly after her youngsters had been drowned and it's not clear when she can be arraigned on 9 homicide costs.

Paul Martinka

Cops discovered the mother close to the Brighton Seashore boardwalk simply after 3 a.m.

She was soaking moist, barefoot and strolling via the sand in a bathrobe, and didn't reply questions on her youngsters’ whereabouts, police have stated.

The NYPD’s harbor and aviation unit scoured the sand and sea and made the gut-wrenching discovery of the three youngsters’ lifeless our bodies round 4:40 a.m. They had been taken to Coney Island Hospital however couldn't be saved.