Nanny 'kills TV executive's kids in bath'

Crime scene unit officials enter the luxury Manhattan apartment building. Picture: Kathy Willens Source: AP

A NANNY is suspected to have stabbed to death a media executive's two young children inside a luxury apartment.

The children's mother, Marina Krim, a pediatrician, walked into her apartment in Manhattan, New York, with her three-year-old daughter to find the children's nanny Yoselyn Ortega, 50 in a pool of blood on the bathroom floor and a bloodied kitchen knife nearby, the The New York Post reported.

She then saw her six-year-old daughter and two-year-old son lying motionless in a blood-soaked bathtub. Each had multiple stab wounds, New York Daily New reported. There was no water in the bath tub.

A police crime scene vehicle is parked in front of the luxury Manhattan apartment building where police say a nanny stabbed two small children to death in a bathtub and then stabbed herself in New York. Picture: Kathy Willens

The children's father is Kevin Krim, CNBC's general manager of digital content, who took up the appointment in March. He worked previously in digital media at Bloomberg.

Mr Krim had been in San Francisco on a business trip and was met by police at the airport on his return and given an escort to the hospital where his loved ones had gathered

A New York City police officer comforts a woman in front of the luxury Manhattan apartment building where police say a nanny stabbed two small children to death. Picture: Kathy Willens

"Something happened to my kids!" the sobbing mother screamed, a witness told the New York Post.

The children appeared to still be breathing when they were rushed to St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Centre, but they were pronounced dead on arrival.

A police crime scene vehicle is parked in front of the luxury Manhattan apartment building where a mother found two of her children stabbed to death. Picture: Kathy Willens

Mrs Krim was also taken to St. Luke's-Roosevelt, where she had to be sedated, a source said.

Ms Ortega, who was is in police custody, was taken New York Presbyterian Hospital in critical but stable condition.

The couple's apartment building sits in one of the city's most idyllic neighborhoods, a block from Central Park, near the Museum of Natural History and blocks from Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts. The neighbourhood is home to many affluent families, and seeing children accompanied by nannies is an everyday part of life there, making the idea of such violence even more disturbing to residents.

Music therapist Rima Starr, who lives on the same floor as the family, said she heard screams coming from their apartment.

"There was some kind of screaming about, 'You slit her throat!''' she said. "It was horrible.''

The children's mother, had entered the dark apartment with her three-year-old and initially thought her other two children were out with the 50-year-old nanny, New York police commissioner Ray Kelly said. She went downstairs and asked the doorman at her building whether he'd seen them leave.

When he said no, she went back upstairs and discovered her two-year-old son, Leo, and her six-year-old daughter, Lucia, known as LuLu, in the bathroom, Kelly said.

It's unclear how many times the children had been stabbed.

The nanny was found on the bathroom floor with stab wounds to her neck, and a kitchen knife was close by, police said. There was no water in the bathtub, they said.

Mr Kelly said it's unclear how long the nanny had worked for the family, and the police investigation was continuing. No charges had been filed.

Ms Starr, the family's neighbour, said she believed the nanny had been hired recently.

"I met her in the elevator, the day before yesterday, and was making small talk," she said.

After police arrived, she said, the mother remained in the building's lobby, screaming hysterically and clutching her surviving child.

On a webpage devoted to a recent family wedding, the eldest of the children, LuLu, is described as loving "art projects, ballet and all things princess".

The youngest, Leo, was said to be just learning how to walk.
 

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