Mom who drove kids into ocean in Florida had low blood sugar: lawyer

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Mom who drove kids into ocean in Florida had low blood sugar: lawyer

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/mom-drove-kids-ocean-florida-had-low-blood-182844583.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/85RODDW9ZxNTysqTHEw7Kw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT03NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-09-04T182844Z_1_LYNXMPEA830YQ_RTROPTP_2_USA-FLORIDA-RESCUE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Ebony Wilkerson appears in a booking mugshot released by the Volusia County Sheriff's department in Daytona Beach" align="left" title="Ebony Wilkerson appears in a booking mugshot released by the Volusia County Sheriff's department in Daytona Beach" border="0" /></a>By Barbara Liston ORLANDO Fla. (Reuters) - A pregnant South Carolina woman drove a minivan with her three children into the ocean off a Florida beach in March because low blood sugar made her act irrationally, her lawyer said on Thursday. Ebony Wilkerson, 33, faces charges of attempted murder and child abuse for each of the three children in the van, then aged 3, 9, and 10. &quot;She’s driving irrationally because she has a medical condition,&quot; said Craig Dyer, Wilkerson's court-appointed attorney. &quot;It could happen to anybody.&quot; He said the diagnosis fit with reports at the scene in Daytona Beach that Wilkerson said she was seeing angels and spots in front of her eyes, and with her children's accounts of her seeming to be sleepwalking.</p><br clear="all"/>

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