MANHATTAN NANNY WHO BUTCHERED TWO KIDS HAD BEEN UNRAVELING FOR MONTHS

Marina Krim (above with her children) had given nanny Yoselyn Ortega more work hours to help her with money troubles.

The deranged nanny who allegedly butchered two adorable young children entrusted to her care was unraveling in recent months — suffering from mental, physical and financial issues, neighbors and police sources said yesterday.
Yoselyn Ortega, 50, appeared sick and gaunt, her Hamilton Heights neighbors said, and she appeared “nervous.”
“She lost a lot of weight. She looked very unhealthy. It looked like she was going through some problems,” said Ruben Diaz, 49. “She had aged a lot — like seven years in a few months.”
She also told people she was seeing a psychiatrist, cops said.

Yoselyn Ortega, 50

“She snapped,” said Celia Ortega, the nanny’s sister. “We don’t understand what happened to her mind.”

Still, neighbors were shocked that she was suspected of stabbing to death little Lucia Krim, 6, and her baby brother Leo, 2, on Thursday before slashing her own wrists and throat in the kids’ West 75th Street apartment.
NYPD detectives were unable to interrogate her yesterday, as she remained in a medically induced coma at New York Hospital.
Law-enforcement sources said Ortega, a Dominican who has been a US citizen for 10 years, complained of money troubles, and her employers, Marina and Kevin Krim, had given her more hours of work.
They even hooked her up with a family they knew for a baby-sitting job on the side — but the family turned her down after an interview because she was, “a little too grumpy,” a law-enforcement source said.
But nobody could predict the horror she would allegedly inflict.
Marina Krim, 36, had taken daughter Nessie, 3, to a swimming lesson but returned to her tony prewar building shortly after 5:30 p.m. because the nanny never showed up with the two other children to meet them for Lucia’s dance class, a source said.
“She got a call from the nanny saying she’d picked them up from school and she was taking them straight home,” said an employee at the Upper West Side swim and dance facility. “She [Marina] didn’t seem nervous at all; she waved to me.”
A neighbor who likely was the last to see the children alive said Lucia seemed happy in the elevator only 30 minutes before the unspeakable crime.
“She [Lucia] looked so delightful,” said upstairs neighbor Charlotte Friedman. “I said, ‘What did you do?’ and she said, ‘Dancing.’ And that was it.”
Friedman described the girl as “happy, happy, happy.”