A nanny originally from the Dominic Republic was convicted this week of murdering a 2-year-old and 6-year-old whom she was supposed to be watching.
Yoselyn Ortega — who immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republican as a young adult — was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder after stabbing two of Marina and Kevin Krim’s children, six-year-old Lulu Krim and two-year-old Leo Krim, to death in October 2012, ABC News reports.
Ortega, in the 2012 Upper West Side, Manhattan attack, stabbed Lulu and Leo while Marina had taken Nessie, her other daughter, to swim lessons. Marina says that when she opened the door to the bathroom in the apartment, she saw her two children lying in pools of blood and lifeless. Next to them, with a knife, was Ortega, who proceeded to stab herself in the neck.
“I was destroyed. She killed my best friends,” Marina Krim told jurors when she took the stand.
In this Oct. 27, 2012 file photo, photographs of six-year-old Lucia Krim and her 2-year-old brother, Leo, are displayed alongside balloons and stuffed animals at a memorial outside the apartment building were they lived in New York. Their parents, Kevin and Marina Krim, have started a non-profit in their honor, the Lulu and Leo Fund. The fund aims to support innovative art programs for children. The family’s nanny, Yoselyn Ortega, has been charged with murder in the deaths of the children and pleaded not guilty. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
That’s when Marina ran out of the Upper West Side apartment screaming, with Nessie, as the doorman to the building called the police.
The defense attempted to claim that Ortega was insane at the time of the murders, saying she suffered from “psychosis” and “dissociation.”
Following the conviction, jurors spoke to the media about their decision:
Ortega is set to the sentenced next month.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.