A woman who tried to drown two of her children in a Dauphin County creek during what she believed was the Biblical end of the world was sentenced Monday to at least a decade in prison.
Candice McElwee was suffering from schizophrenia and self-medicating with methamphetamine around 3 a.m. on Sept. 6, 2022, when she tried to drown her 3- and 7-year-old daughters in the Stony Creek watershed in Middle Paxton Township, authorities said.
The 7-year-old girl was able to fight McElwee off while she held her head underwater, but the 3-year-old lost consciousness, according to the Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office…