Thursday, June 13, 2013

'I didn't kill them': Manhattan nanny who 'stabbed two children to death in the bath' says 'someone else did it' as she faces life in jail


A nanny accused of stabbing two young children to death in an Upper West Side apartment has claimed someone else killed them.

Yoselyn Ortega, 50, is charged with murdering two-year-old Leo and six-year-old Lulu last October.

Police said they found Ortega in the bathroom of her employer's Manhattan apartment with the children's bodies nearby in a pool of blood.


Ortega had stabbed herself in the throat.


'She said something like, "I'm paid to watch the children, not clean up and do housework",' a law-enforcement source said of Ortega’s statements to police after she woke from the coma .... http://www.dailymail.co.uk