A Florida mother accused of trying to drown herself and her three young children wiped away tears and appeared shaken as she sat handcuffed before the judge at a trial-setting hearing on May 19.
Shaniece Willingham of Valrico, who allegedly used a rope to tie herself and her children together before jumping into a community pool, said she struggled with mental health and had suicidal thoughts at the time of the incident last September, according to post-Miranda interviews and her own Instagram livestream of the event, obtained by local station WFLA 8.
“I’mma go to hell,” she reportedly said last fall, sobbing, “I tried every way, God.”
None of her children — ages 3, 2, and 8 months old — knew how to swim, but they miraculously survived without major injuries thanks to family members who intervened in the nick of time…