Prosecutors plan to drop
charges against a mother charged with trying to kill her three children by
driving them into the ocean, the woman's lawyer said.
Ebony Wilkerson will plead
not guilty to child abuse by reason of insanity, lawyer Craig Dyer said.
Psychologists hired by the
prosecution and defence have agreed that the 33-year-old suffered a psychotic
episode at the time of the incident.
Ebony Wilkerson, the mother
who drove her three children into the Florida sea, appears in court.
In March, Wilkerson drove
her van into the surf off Daytona Beach. Bystanders and officers pulled her and
her children - aged three, nine and 10 - from it as it was almost submerged.
Authorities said Wilkerson
had locked the vehicle's doors and rolled up the windows before driving into
the Florida waves.
Wilkerson denied trying to
hurt her children, telling investigators she was driving too close to the
water, "and the waves pulled her in".
The attorney will present
the proposed deal to a judge at the end of the week.
If the judge accepts the
deal, a hearing will determine whether Wilkerson will be taken to hospital for
treatment or if she will get community release with oversight by the court, Mr
Dyer said.
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