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Stuffed animals and flowers are left outside a building where two children were stabbed to death in New York on Friday. (Reuters)
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Oct. 26: A horrified mother walked into her Upper West Side apartment in New York yesterday to see the family’s nanny slashing her own wrists and neck with the same bloody kitchen knife she had already used on two of the woman’s young children, who lay dead in a bathtub, police commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said today.
He said the mother, Marina Krim, had left the two children — a two-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl — with the nanny, Yoselyn Ortega, 50, while Krim took her middle child, a three-year-old girl, to a swimming lesson. He said that Ortega was supposed to meet Krim and the three-year-old at a dance studio after the swimming lesson. They never showed up, he said.
Krim, worried, walked home to the ornate pre-war building where the family had lived for the last couple of years. Kelly said detectives had been unable to question Ortega, who was in a medically induced coma in a hospital. He said that Ortega lived with her son, her sister and a niece in Harlem.
But what prompted the stabbings remained a mystery today as passersby added to a makeshift memorial outside the Krims’ building at 57 West 75th Street.
The tragedy yesterday afternoon. Kelly had said after a briefing last evening that when Krim returned around 5.30pm, she found a dark apartment. She went to the lobby and asked the doorman if he had seen the nanny and her children.
Told that they had not left the building, she returned to the apartment.
She looked around in the quiet rooms. Finally, she turned on the lights in the bathroom — and saw her two children in the bathtub and the nanny unconscious on the floor.
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