A nanny on trial for slaughtering two children she was meant to be caring for has had her pathetic complaints read out in court.
Yoselyn Ortega, 55, moaned about having to clean the New York house and look after Lucia Krim, six, and Leo Krim, two, despite it being her job.
In harrowing hand-written notes penned by a scribe after the killings, she said: ‘I had to do everything and take care of the kids. I worked as a babysitter only and she wanted me to do everything. She wanted five hours of cleaning every week.’
Ortega is accused of stabbing the children multiple times and waiting for their mother – Marina – to come home and see the aftermath.
The suspected murderer then plunged a knife into her own neck and a police officer dictated her statements from a hospital bed using an alphabet sheet after the double homicide.
In this harrowing hand-written notes penned after the killings, Yoselyn Ortega said: ‘I had to do everything and take care of the kids. I worked as a babysitter only and she wanted me to do everything. She wanted five hours of cleaning every week’
More moans from Orgeta – saying every day is a different schedule and that she does not want to clean because of soap
Yoselyn Ortega, 55, is accused of killing the children she was meant to be looking after – Lucia Krim (right), six, and Leo Krim (left), two
Yoselyn Ortega, 55, is currently on trial (above in court on Friday) charged with murdering siblings Leo and Lucia Krim in their Upper West Side apartment back in October 2012
Photos of two bloodied knives were shown to jurors in court this week before the evidence photos were released by the New York District Attorney on Thursday
One knife used in the stabbing murders was found in the bathroom sink just inches from a pink child’s toothbrush
In her first statement to police following the murders, Ortega allegedly complained about the children’s mother, the New York Post reports.
‘I had to do everything and take care of the kids,’ she said when she woke up in hospital two days after the attack.
‘I worked as babysitter only and she (Krim) wanted me to do everything so wanted 5 hours of cleaning every week.
‘When I got things wrong she would make a grunting, gargling sound. She would tap on the railing. She would show frustration. Even small facial expressions, she would make.’
Ortega also said she didn’t want to clean, ‘because of soap’ and claimed she heard voices and was ‘touched by the devil’, which drove her to kill the young children in October 2012.
Psychologists have refuted this, but the 55-year-old has pleaded not guilty, claiming insanity.
Statements from Yoselyn Ortega which were taken down by a police officer as she pointed to an alphabet sheet
The police officer’s notes, showing the name of the psychiatrist who refutes Ortega’s claim she was possessed by the devil
Photos of a bloodied knife wrapped in a towel in the hallway (top of image) and blood spattered on the floor and walls were among the images shown
One bloodied knife was found wrapped in a towel in the hallway on top of a toy refrigerator
Two kitchen knives were used in the stabbing attack. The images were taken inside the apartment roughly seven hours after mother Marina Krim found her children’s bodies
Prosecutors say two-year-old Leo was stabbed five times and his six-year-old sister Lucia, also known as Lulu, was stabbed 30 times after she fought back.
Ortega had allegedly grabbed the two kitchen knives and butchered the children while their mother was blocks away at a dance studio where Lulu was supposed to be.
It is claimed Ortega waited until Marina had found her children dead in the bathroom before plunging a knife into her own neck so that she could relish in the devastated woman’s pain and horror.
Ortega was supposed to pick up Lulu from kindergarten and walk her to dance class before going home to put Leo down for nap.
The children’s mother had taken her other daughter, three-year-old Nessie, to a swimming class.
Marina had shown up to the dance studio to pick up LuLu and panicked when she noticed her daughter wasn’t there.
She frantically texted Ortega: ‘Where’s Lulu… Donde Estas… Where are you’ but Oretga never answered.
Jurors were also shown photos of the blood-spattered bathroom where the bodies of the children were found with their eyes open.
The bottom of the bathtub was almost entirely red.
At least two jurors wiped away tears as they took in the horror images, while others gasped and held their faces.
The photos were taken roughly seven hours after mother Marina Krim found her children’s bodies and saw Ortega stabbing herself in the neck.
She faces a minimum of 20 years imprisonment if she is convicted and could be jailed for life without parole.