Children 'killer' nanny was like family

A New York family is in shock after two of their children and the children's Nanny were found stabbed. Vision: Fox5 News

Leo, 2, and Lulu Krim, 6, were allegedly stabbed to death by their nanny Yoselyn Ortega. Picture: LiveJournal Source: Supplied

Kevin and Marina Krim with their daughter Lucia. Picture: LiveJournal Source: Supplied

A NANNY is suspected to have stabbed to death a media executive's two young children inside a luxury apartment.

The children's mother, Marina Krim, a pediatrician, walked into her apartment in Manhattan, New York, with her three-year-old daughter to find the children's nanny Yoselyn Ortega, 50 in a pool of blood on the bathroom floor and a bloodied kitchen knife nearby, the The New York Post reported.

She then saw her six-year-old daughter and two-year-old son lying motionless in a blood-soaked bathtub. Each had multiple stab wounds, New York Daily New reported. There was no water in the bath tub.

The children's father is Kevin Krim, CNBC's general manager of digital content, who took up the appointment in March. He worked previously in digital media at Bloomberg.

A woman cries after laying flowers in front of the building where Leo and Lulu Krim were stabbed to death allegedly by their nanny in a family's Upper West Side apartment in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP Source: AFP

The grandmother of the two children said Ortega was "treated like family".

"They were always doing things that were just fabulous for her. I'm just astounded, and I have no idea why something like this would happen." Karen Krim, the mother of CNBC executive Kevin Krim, told the New York Daily News.

"They just bent over backwards being nice to this woman.

Karen Krim said the nanny, Yoselyn Ortega, had always been an angel.

"My daughter-in-law, if she thought there was anything wrong, she would have never left the two with her. This had to be something simmering inside this woman. Obviously, she went insane.

"We're just having a really, really hard time here. We're all falling apart ... It's the worst nightmare any parent could ever have."

Lulu Krim, top, and her baby brother Leo, right, were found dead in the bathtub after they had been stabbed by their nanny. Picture: LiveJournal Source: Supplied

A neighbour said Lulu, the beautiful girl brutally slain, had been "dancing" and seemed "happy" just 30 minutes before she was allegedly slaughtered by her nanny.

"She [Lucia] looked so delightful ... I asked her if she was maybe going on a play date or something and she said no, she was going home," Charlotte Friedman, who rode the elevator with the two kids and her nanny, told the New York Post.

"I said, 'What did you do,' and she said, 'Dancing.' And that was it - they were only on the second floor so they left."

Friedman described the girl as, "Happy, happy, happy."

Mr Krim had been in San Francisco on a business trip and was met by police at the airport on his return and given an escort to the hospital where his loved ones had gathered

"Something happened to my kids!" the sobbing mother screamed, a witness told the New York Post.

The children appeared to still be breathing when they were rushed to St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Centre, but they were pronounced dead on arrival.

Mrs Krim was also taken to St. Luke's-Roosevelt, where she had to be sedated, a source said.

Ms Ortega, who was is in police custody, was taken New York Presbyterian Hospital in critical but stable condition.

The couple's apartment building sits in one of the city's most idyllic neighborhoods, a block from Central Park, near the Museum of Natural History and blocks from Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts. The neighbourhood is home to many affluent families, and seeing children accompanied by nannies is an everyday part of life there, making the idea of such violence even more disturbing to residents.

Music therapist Rima Starr, who lives on the same floor as the family, said she heard screams coming from their apartment.

"There was some kind of screaming about, 'You slit her throat!''' she said. "It was horrible.''

A New York City police officer comforts a woman in front of the luxury Manhattan apartment building where police say a nanny stabbed two small children to death. Picture: Kathy Willens Source: AP

The children's mother, had entered the dark apartment with her three-year-old and initially thought her other two children were out with the 50-year-old nanny, New York police commissioner Ray Kelly said. She went downstairs and asked the doorman at her building whether he'd seen them leave.

When he said no, she went back upstairs and discovered her two-year-old son, Leo, and her six-year-old daughter, Lucia, known as LuLu, in the bathroom, Kelly said.

It's unclear how many times the children had been stabbed.

The nanny was found on the bathroom floor with stab wounds to her neck, and a kitchen knife was close by, police said. There was no water in the bathtub, they said.

Initial reports suggested the nanny had already attempted to commit suicide by the time Mrs Krim entered, but Kelly said on Friday that it now appeared she began cutting herself just as Mrs Krim saw her children lying dead in the bathtub.

"We believe now that the nanny started to stab herself as the mother entered the bathroom," Kelly told a  televised new conference.

Mr Kelly said it's unclear how long the nanny had worked for the family, and the police investigation was continuing. No charges had been filed.

Ms Starr, the family's neighbour, said she believed the nanny had been hired recently.

"I met her in the elevator, the day before yesterday, and was making small talk," she said.

After police arrived, she said, the mother remained in the building's lobby, screaming hysterically and clutching her surviving child.

On a webpage devoted to a recent family wedding, the eldest of the children, LuLu, is described as loving "art projects, ballet and all things princess".

The youngest, Leo, was said to be just learning how to walk.

CNBC digital media issued a statement saying one of its employees had "suffered an unimaginable loss. The sadness that we all feel for Kevin, Marina and their family is without measure."

Irene Dupuis lays flowers in front of the building where Leo and Lulu Krim were stabbed to death allegedly by their nanny in a family's Upper West Side apartment in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP Source: AFP

Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang

Children 'killer' nanny was like family

Dengan url

http://duniasikasik.blogspot.com/2012/10/children-killer-nanny-was-like-family.html

Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya

Children 'killer' nanny was like family

namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link

Children 'killer' nanny was like family

sebagai sumbernya