The Great Smoky Mountain Journal

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Tuesday, January 01, 2019 02:39 PM

New York Nanny Had "Eyes Of The Devil" After Murder Of Two Children

An NYPD Emergency Services Unit testified that one of the children was “partially decapitated” and the other has a similar injury “straight down to the spine,” according to The New York Post.

No one denies that Yoselyn Ortega used kitchen knives to butcher 2-year-old Leo Krim and his 6-year-old sister Lucia, who went by Lulu, on Oct. 25, 2012. But the testimony is crucial to resolving the central question of the trial: whether Ortega was too mentally ill to be held responsible for the crimes -- a high bar to clear in New York state.

When Marina Krim arrived home to find her bloodied children stacked in a bathtub, she began howling, "‘They’re dead! They’re dead," the building superintendent testified Monday.

'IT'S LIKE A HORROR MOVIE,' MARINA KRIM TESTIFIES

The super, Michael Minihan, immediately ran upstairs to the unit and blocked Ortega's escape, he told jurors.

“I didn’t freak out,” Minihan testified, according to The New York Post. “You’ve got to understand, I opened the door and I see somebody staring with the eyes of the devil holding a rag to her face. Her eyes were bugging. She’s staring right at me.”

He also said he told an arriving officer that “whatever is in there is evil.”

First responders testified Monday that the episode had taken an emotional toll.