A few days ago, the sad story broke about Ebony Wilkerson, the pregnant woman who drove herself and her three small children into the Atlantic Ocean, claiming to be taking her and her children ‘to a better place’. This woman’s behavior is quite disturbing to say the least, and she now has to suffer the consequences. Wilkerson is being charged with attempted murder and her bail is set to $1.2 million dollars. Check out the details..
Almost two hours later Tuesday, Wilkerson drove her black minivan — with the three kids still inside — into the surf of the Atlantic Ocean.Tim Tesseneer was driving along Daytona Beach on Tuesday with his wife when they noticed the minivan driving through shallow water. They heard the screams, he said, of two children, who were crying and waving for help out of one of the rear windows.Tesseneer threw the car in park and raced over to help. One child was screaming, Tesseneer recalled Wednesday to CNN’s Piers Morgan. “‘Please help us, our mom is trying to kill us.'”
The other child he could see was wrestling a woman for the steering wheel. But the woman just kept saying, “‘We’re OK. We’re OK. We’re OK,'” as another man joined Tesseneer trying to get the driver to stop.
With the minivan in the cold, heavy surf of the Atlantic, the second man, Stacy Robinson, opened a door and pulled out the two panicked children. There was a good chance if he and Tesseneer hadn’t been there, the children, ages 10 and 9, would have drowned inside the van as it pitched in the water, officials said.
Another child, a 3-year-old girl, was strapped in a car seat. A lifeguard dived in through a front window and unbuckled the child and handed her to another lifeguard as the vehicle bobbed in water about 3 feet deep.
Meanwhile, Wilkerson walked away quietly with a strange, almost “possessed” look on her face, witnesses said.
On Thursday night, an arrest warrant was signed for Wilkerson. And shortly after 11 a.m. — after being released from Halifax Health — she was arrested.
Wilkerson was being held on three counts of aggravated child abuse in addition to the first-degree murder charge, Johnson said Friday.
Her bond has been set at $1.2 million, said James Purdy, the elected public defender for the 7th Judicial Circuit of Florida. Purdy said he would seek a court hearing on that bond, which could occur in the next week or so. He said he was going to speak with Wilkerson on Saturday.
Investigators have claimed in the charging affidavit: “Ebony Wilkerson acted with premeditated design to kill her three children.
