A woman came home to the ultimate parents nightmare…. She found her two children dead, murdered by their trusted nanny.
The Nanny Then Stabbed Herself
A nanny suspected of killing two young children she was looking after and then stabbing herself is in critical condition in a city hospital, as authorities continue to
investigate a situation that is every parent’s nightmare.
One Mother’s Terror Unfolds
The horror started for the children’s mother, Marina Krim, when she and a third child returned to their apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side Thursday evening. Puzzled by the darkened home, she returned to the lobby to ask the doorman if the nanny had gone out with 1-year-old Leo, just learning to walk, and 6-year-old Lucia, known as LuLu, lover of “all things princess.”
She was told they hadn’t left, so she returned upstairs. A search led to the bathroom, where the children’s bodies were in the bathtub and the nanny lay wounded nearby. It’s unclear how many times the children were stabbed.
“There was some kind of screaming about, `You slit her throat!”‘ said music therapist Rima Starr, who lives on the same floor as the family, and said she heard screams coming from their apartment at around 5:30 p.m.
The nanny, Yoselyn Ortega, who was found near a knife, was hospitalized in critical condition and was in police custody. The children were pronounced dead at a hospital.
Their Father Learns At The Airport Than His World Was Crumbling
The children’s father, CNBC digital media executive Kevin Krim, who had been away on a business trip, was met by police at the airport on his return and was given an escort to the hospital where his loved ones had gathered.
NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the nanny is in custody, and is a “person of interest” but has not been charged. Her name has not been released.
The children’s father, Kevin Krim, was away on a trip.
Nothing Yet Known of How the Couple Found the Nanny
Kelly said it was unknown if the nanny came from an agency.
The News Rocked a Neighborhood Where The Use of Nannies is Common
In a neighborhood where nannies pushing strollers and looking after young kids is a common sight, Stephanie Herman said she’d “never heard of seen anything like this in 30 years.”
“It was just sirens, sirens, sirens,” said Herman. She was leaving her home to meet a friend and as she walked down the block, EMS responders walked out with two stretchers screaming, “get out of the way!”
Herman, 58, heard the horrible news from others on the street but had hoped it was just a rumor because, “when you hear it from people on the street you keep thinking ‘Okay, it’s gossip, it’s rumor, it can’t be that bad, that cannot have happened.'”
