'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



Yoselyn Ortega, 50, is charged with murdering Leo, 2 and Lulu, 6



Police found Ortega in the bathroom of her employer's Manhattan apartment

Ortega had stabbed herself in the throat



She did not say who else could be responsible for the October killings



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

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.



'I didn’t do that,' Yoselyn Ortega insisted in jailhouse interview with New York Daily News.

'Someone else did.'

Ortega, who w orked as nanny for Marina and Kevin Krim, did not say who else could be responsible for murdering the children.



Ortega, Lucia and Leo had been due to meet Mrs Krim and Nessie at a dance studio, but the mother became concerned when they failed to turn up and returned to the home.



After learning from the doorman that the nanny had not left the building, Mrs Krim frantically searched the apartment and came across the grisly scene in the bathroom.

Ortega's suicide bid failed and she was put in a medically-induced coma.



When questioned by police after awaking from the coma, the nanny attempted to paint Mrs Krim in a bad light, shifting part of the blame for the tragedy on her.



Ortega, who had told neighbors and family that she was short of money, revealed she resented her employers because they kept telling her what to do and asked her to do the housework.

Plea: Yoselyn Ortega, pictured centre, has pleaded not guilty to killing six-year-old Lucia Krim (right) and her two-year-old brother Leo while they were in her care at their Manhattan home

'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.

Yoselyn became extremely animated when she discussed the incident with police, telling officers that she had numerous disagreements with mother Marina about how the kids were being cared for.



Reports claimed Marina didn't think Yoselyn was interacting with the kids enough and was giving them junk food.

Loss: Two-year-old Leo and his big sister Lulu, six, were found in a pool of blood in the family's home



Victims: Only Nessie, whose picture has been pixelated, escaped harm as she was with her mother

The Krims were also reportedly worried about Ortega's job performance in the weeks leading up to the killings and had told her that if she didn't improve, they might need to replace her.



But the Krims' extended family dispute they treated her poorly, explaining that they paid for her to travel on holidays and even visited her family in the Dominican Republic.



In April, Ortega, was ruled fit to stand trial and will now face a jury for two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder.



She has pleaded not guilty to the charges.



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





Last month the Krim's revealed they are expecting a baby boy in October,



'Hello everyone, We are very happy to let you know that Marina is expecting a baby in the fall,' read the message on the Lulu & Leo Fund .

'Nessie can’t wait to welcome her new baby brother. We are filled with many emotions as we look to the future, but the most important one is hope. We are very grateful to you all for your amazing support.'

In January, Mr Krim, an executive at America's CNBC television station, said that they are drawing strength from their remaining child.

He said: 'Marina and I couldn't be more proud of her - she is very smart, beautiful and tough. And she's grown so much over the past two months. She saves us every day.'



Marina and Kevin Krim, whose son and daughter were stabbed to death last year, held a fundraiser on Wednesday for the charity set up in honor of their children











