Police arrest a Sydney woman accused of drowning her children

A 37 year old woman has been charged with an attempt to drown her two young girls in it Sydney‘s southwest in September last year.

Emergency services were first called to Riverpark Drive, Liverpoolaround 10:30 a.m., where the woman was found seriously injured after falling from Light Horse Bridge on September 11, 2023.

Later that day, two girls, aged 7 and 8, were rescued from Sydney’s Georges River by a passerby and taken to hospital for evaluation. Police claimed she threw the children into the river.

Paramedics treated the then 36-year-old woman before she was taken to a hospital in a critical condition.

“Officers attended and were advised that two girls – aged seven and eight – had been rescued from the river by a passerby,” a NSW Police statement said.

Police have cordoned off a crime scene and have since been investigating the incident.

On Wednesday, the woman was arrested after being released from hospital and charged with two counts of attempted murder. She was taken to Liverpool police station where she was charged with two counts of attempting to drown a person with intent to murder, police said.

“Police will allege in court that the woman threw the two girls into the water,” a police statement said.

The 37-year-old was refused bail and appeared at Liverpool Local Court on Wednesday.

In 2019, a woman, identified as Tanja Ludwig, and her two-year-old daughter died after going over a cliff at Robertson Lookout near Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia. Authorities investigated the incident as a possible murder-suicide.

Kathleen Folbiggonce labeled Australia’s worst female serial killer, was acquitted last year, 20 years after her conviction for murdering her four young children between 1989 and 1999.