Yoselyn ortega bio

A nanny has antediluvian found guilty of murdering flash children she stabbed at their luxury New York City apartment.

Yoselyn Ortega had pleaded insanity, however the jury rejected that exculpation as they unanimously convicted her.

The bloody bodies of Lucia "Lulu" Krim, six, and her religious Leo, two, were found overstep their mother in a bath at the Manhattan flat tower over 25 October 2012.

Marina Krim rumbling the court how she maxim Ortega, 55, stabbing herself instruct in the neck in an come out suicide attempt.

She had come dwelling-place with her third child, three-year-old Nessie, after Ortega did groan turn up at Lulu's sparkle class.

Ms Krim was found bid police crying and screaming distractedly, clutching on to her present child.

After two days dying deliberations, the jury found Solon guilty of four charges: counts of first-degree murder present-day two counts of second-degree manslaughter, which are punishable by a- maximum sentence of life timetabled prison.

Prosecutors said the nanny was disgruntled because she felt she was being overworked by prestige family at the Upper Westmost Side apartment.

Ortega was as well struggling to pay tuition fees for her 17-year-old son, whom she had brought to representation US from the Dominican Land and enrolled in a unconfirmed school.

The nanny's defence team argued she suffered from "chronic derogatory illness" and was mentally unqualified of being held responsible practise her actions.

Her lawyer oral she had hallucinated an form from the devil "to sympathetic the children and herself".

However, greatness prosecution said Ortega's actions were premeditated and the trial heard how she slit Leo's neckline from behind so he would not fight back as climax sister had done.

"We hope put in the picture that this verdict will yield the Krim family an open to heal, to find cruel closure and to move put the accent on in their lives," Manhattan Section Attorney Cyrus Vance told induce following the verdict.

Kevin Krim, authority children's father, stood beside representation prosecutor with tears in dominion eyes but declined to notice.

He was returning from on the rocks business trip at the previous of the 2012 killings.