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Mom goes home 5 years after driving van with kids into ocean

Mom goes home 5 years after driving van with kids into ocean | iNFOnews.ca
FILE- In this March 25, 2014, file photo, Ebony Wilkerson listens during a bond hearing in Daytona Beach, Fla. Wilkerson was charged with attempted murder after she drove her car into the ocean with her three children inside. A judge on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019, allowed Wilkerson to return to her family after five years in jail or transitional care. The family lives in Myrtle Beach, SC. (Peter Bauer/The Daytona Beach News-Journal via AP, Pool, File) A

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A South Carolina woman who drove her minivan with her children inside into the Atlantic Ocean in Florida five years ago has been allowed to return home to her family.

Volusia County Circuit Judge Raul Zambrano on Thursday allowed 38-year-old Ebony Wilkerson to leave Daytona Beach, where she had been in jail or transitional care since March 4, 2014. The family lives in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Assistant Public Defender Jay Crocker tells The Daytona Beach News-Journal that Wilkerson will still be on medication and will see a mental health counsellor in South Carolina. He says she’s happy to return to her family.

Authorities say Wilkerson was pregnant when she drove the minivan into the surf, where rescuers grabbed three screaming children as waves rocked the vehicle.

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