A New York jury has found a nanny guilty of murdering the two young children she had been caring for, rejecting her claim that she was mentally ill when she stabbed them to death in the bathroom of their Upper West Side apartment in 2012.
On Oct. 25, 2012, Marina Krim came home and found her 6-year-old daughter Lulu and 2-year-old son Leo stabbed to death in the bathroom. Yoselyn Ortega, the family's nanny of two years, was standing there and had stabbed herself in the neck, prosecutors said.
She had been charged with two counts each of first-degree murder and second-degree murder, but pleaded not guilty due to mental illness.
On Tuesday, after hours of heart-wrenching testimony over the past several weeks, the jury found the 55-year-old guilty on all counts.
The brutal murders garnered widespread attention. Krim came home from taking her then 3-year-old daughter to a swim class when she found her two other children "bloodied" and "lifeless... their eyes open, covered in blood," Assistant District Attorney Courtney Groves said in opening statements last month, according to ABC News.
"I was destroyed," Krim testified. "She killed my best friends."
The mother and her husband, Kevin Krim, started the Lulu and Leo Fund, which helps support art programs for children. The couple also had two more children, Felix, born in 2013, and Linus, in 2016, according to their Facebook page.
"Thank you all for the love and support," Kevin Krim posted on Facebook. "Please keep spreading the message of positive defiance: Choose Creativity."
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