Murder trial begins for New York nanny accused of stabbing two children

Murder trial begins for New York nanny accused of stabbing two children

Nanny Yoselyn Ortega stabbed to death two children in her care at their New York luxury apartment out of resentment that their mother was the parent “she could never be,” a prosecutor said on Thursday at the opening of Ortega’s murder trial. A lawyer for Ortega told the jury she should be found not guilty by reason of insanity, however, saying she was incapable of having an intent to kill on Oct. 25, 2012, when Lucia Krim, 6, nicknamed Lulu, and her brother Leo, 2, were killed. After returning to the family apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Marina Krim found her children’s bloody bodies in a bathtub and Ortega standing over them, plunging a knife into her own neck.

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Source:: Yahoo News

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