Woman Denies Trying to Drown Her Children
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PORT HUENEME — A woman accused of trying to drown her two children in Channel Islands Harbor earlier this month pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of attempted murder.
Narinder Virk, 39, was arrested Jan. 12 after a harbor resident, awakened by plaintive cries, rescued the woman and her children, ages 6 and 9, from the frigid water.
Prosecutors believe Virk wanted to kill her children and then herself.
Deputy Public Defender Christina Briles described the defendant as a distraught and abused woman who momentarily lost her mind.
“I don’t think she should be prosecuted,” Briles said. “I think she should be helped.”
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