Nanny charged with stabbing two CHILDREN, 1 and 6 in luxury New York City apartment

A mother retued to her luxurious Manhattan apartment on Thursday night to find her two-year-old son and six-year-old daughter had been stabbed to death in the bathtub by their nanny, who then slit her own throat in a failed suicide attempt.

Marina Krim arrived at the family's apartment on the Upper West Side at around 5.30pm with her other daughter, three-year-old Nessie, to find son Leo and daughter Lulu lying in a pool of blood each with multiple stab wounds.

The nanny, 50-year-old Yoselyn Ortega, survived her suicide attempt and is in police custody.

'There were bloodcurdling screams from a woman,' neighbour Rima Starr said. 'There was some kind of screaming about, "You slit her throat!" 'It was horrible.'

Tragedy: Six-year-old Lulu, top, and her baby brother Leo, right, were found dead in the bathtub after they had been stabbed by their nanny. They are pictured with sister Nessie, 3, who was not hurt

Mrs Krim, whose husband is the senior vice president and general manager of CNBC Digital, retued home after Ortega failed to meet her and Nessie for swimming lessons with the other kids.

She entered the three-bedroom, $10,000-a-month apartment at West 75th Street but found it dark, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

She retued to the lobby to ask the doorman if he had seen the children and, when he said they had not left, she retued to the home and looked through each room.

She finally switched on the bathroom lights and discovered the horrifying scene.

Family: Lulu is pictured with her father Kevin Krim and mother Marina Krim, who found her children stabbed in the bathtub and their nanny with a slit throat and wrists on the bathroom floor

Mrs Krim also found her two children in the bathtub with stab wounds covering their bodies, and then tried to stop the nanny's neck from bleeding with a towel, according to the Post.

Lucianne Minihan, whose husband is the building's superintendent, told DNAInfo: 'She was screaming at the top of her lungs. She was screaming, "Help me! Help me!"'

Neighbours dialed 911 and, although Lulu and Leo reportedly appeared to be breathing when medics arrived, they were pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.

Ortega was unresponsive but was taken to New York-Coell Hospital in a critical but stable condition. Police sources added that she may have also taken pills.

Mrs Krim and Nessie, who had not witnessed the grisly scene, were also taken to hospital for treatment, and Mrs Krim was sedated.

Her husband, Kevin Krim, had been on a business trip and was met by police at the airport when he retued to New York. Officers recounted the horror to him and he was escorted to the hospital.

Mr and Mrs Krim remained at St. Luke's hospital last night with Mrs Krim's sister. Police said the shocked mother was unable to communicate.

The family had moved to New York from San Francisco within the last few years, and Mr Krim was named general manager of CNBC's digital media division in March.

Grim: Police congregate behind a crime scene unit vehicle in front of La Rochelle

Investigation: Members of the NYPD crime scene unit enter the building

Grisly scene: The mother arrived home with another one of her children to find the 1- and 6-year-old stabbed in the apartment of the La Rochelleon on Manhattan's Upper West Side

He is a Harvard graduate and has recently worked at Bloomberg and Yahoo!, according to his LinkedIn profile.

The children's grandmother on their father's side, Karen Krim, told the Post that the family hired Ortega a year ago, until which time Mrs Krim had been a stay-at-home mother.

When Leo was bo, they searched for a nanny. They even spent nine days with her family in the Dominican Republic, as documented on Mrs Krim's online joual.

Ortega has no criminal record.

'Kevin told me that she was a nice girl,' the grandmother told The Post. 'How could she do something like that? The children were angels.'

Heartbroken: Marina Krim, pictured with Leo, was taken to hospital and had to be sedated

Adored: Mrs Krim often wrote about Leo's cute habits, like pretending to cook in his make-believe kitchen

Ortega's niece, Katherine Garcia, added that her aunt had been 'acting kind of nervous lately' but insisted that she had loved the children.

Police said there were no immediate explanations for the murders and suicide attempt. Paul J. Browne, from the police department, told the New York Times he did not know a note had been left.

Mrs Krim, who teaches weekly art lessons to children, kept an online joual entitled 'Life with the Krim Kids', which she had last updated just three hours before the murders.

She had written: 'Leo speaks in the most adorable way possible.'

The online joual paints a tender picture of her life with her husband and their beloved children, and an insight into the tragedy that has befallen the family.

She documents trips to pick apples, visit pumpkin patches and get ready for playdates. Photographs show the children playing happily together around the home and on their first days of school.

Close: Scores of pictures on the online blog show the three children playing happily together at the home

 

Adventures: The family even went to stay with the nanny's family in the Dominican Republic

Adorable: Lulu is pictured with her younger sister Nessie, who was with her mother at the time of the killings

'One of the best parts of my day is after I drop both girls off at school and have 3 precious hours with little Lito all to myself,' she wrote. 'Ok, I’m near getting cheesy I adore this boy so much!!!'

She added how he loved to play with toy cars and trucks, and would set up his own 'kitchen' in the living room where he would pretend to make bacon.

'Lito, I must say, is a very clever little boy,' she wrote. 'He is super talkative and just has a million thoughts running through his brain and can express himself amazingly well for an almost-2 year old.  I'm thinking he could be a Mini-Kevin.'