Police charge NYC nanny in stabbing death of kids

Yoselyn Ortega, 50, the nanny suspected of stabbing to death two young children in New York City / CBS News

NEW YORK New York City police say they've charged a nanny with murder in the stabbing deaths of two children last month.

Police finally could interview 50-year-old Yoselyn Ortega as she continues to recover from self-inflicted stab wounds. They charged her in her hospital bed Saturday night with two counts each of first- and second-degree murder.

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Police say Ortega fatally stabbed 6-year-old Lucia Krim and her 2-year-old brother, Leo, on Oct. 25 in the children's Upper West Side apartment. She then stabbed herself.

A third sibling was with their mother when the killings happened. The mother returned home to discover her children dead and Ortega bleeding.

Ortega remains hospitalized under police guard

[Jonseen]

This is just so unbelievably tragic and senseless. Apparently the family tried to be real good to the nanny too, the grandma said they can't understand it.

I don't understand how someone can fall off the deep end like that, but there doesn't seem to be anything sane about this situation at all.

I'm very sorry for the family. I do pray that God will comfort them and help them find a way through this nightmare.

[Eriverq]

This is someone who the family trusted and loved with there kids and it's a tragedy where she from and why they hired her is not relevant to why this woman would do this. As a parent with a live in Nanny this cause me to not sleep for a couple nights but it's such a isolated case you have to really look at this a mental situation and has nothing to do with her job.

[aubfmet]

People with enough money to live there should pay a college graduate to take care of their children.

[hotree]

College graduates kill too.

[LosAngelesCA]

I am glad the police are preventing another suicide attempt because I would rather she rot in jail for the rest of her life.

[magnumdr]

Some people today have gone completly nuts and we can't trust anyone anymore. What has happened here?

[mandiegracetaylor]

Lord Jesus help the mommy - she is sitting in her apartment right now contemplating her own death and unworthiness - she has to keep her strength for the remaining child - the mom will suffer from trust issues the rest of her own life- PTSD will hound her and her husband - their marriage has a fraction of a chance of surviving this - Just pray for these people - and even the nanny. That woman must have succombed to a severe mental illness - when the full weight of what she has done hits her - she will try again and again to kill herself - only prayer can help them now - but then this is the way it always is and always will be - just not everyone has to suffer in this life to this degree - complete horror. God bless this family.

[JohnCInFlorida]

I believe the murder of the CNBC executive' children was in responce to CNBC publishing an article about Spire LLC, bringing a lawsuit against the bankers regarding the fraudulent home for,llsures over the past few years. You really think the Nanny could slit her own throat?

[mandiegracetaylor]

John in Florida - dude - you need to check into the psychiatric ward right behind the nanny. Seriously - the mom stood there in the bathroom door and watched to nanny slice herself - seriously - get help.

[Jonseen]

What is this, a lawyer working up a defense strategy?

[caligirlabc]

She is beyond redemption. Lock her up forever. She will be making 5 cents an hour working in prison. If she thinks she is too good to work there, she will be making it worse for herself. I hope everyone shuns her in prison too. Even other criminals won't accept or tolerate what she's done. Bad to the core.