Manhattan nanny guilty of murdering children

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Meeshika Sharma
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Yoselyn Ortega, a nanny has been found guilty of murdering two children she stabbed at their luxury New York City apartment.publive-image

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

The bloody bodies of Lucia "Lulu" Krim, six, and her brother Leo, two, were found by their mother in a bathtub at the Manhattan flat on 25 October 2012.publive-image

Marina Krim told the court how she saw Ortega, 55, stabbing herself in the neck in an apparent suicide attempt.

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She had come home with her third child, three-year-old Nessie, after Ortega did not turn up at Lulu's dance class.

After two days of deliberations, the jury found Ortega guilty of four charges: two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder, which are punishable by a maximum sentence of life in prison.

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

The prosecution said Ortega's actions were premeditated and the trial heard how she slit Leo's neck from behind so he would not fight back as his sister had done.

Ortega was also struggling to pay tuition fees for her 17-year-old son, whom she had brought to the US from the Dominican Republic and enrolled in a private school.

 

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