SAD: Nanny Yoselyn Ortega spoke yesterday after a suicide bid and alleged murder of two Krim children (above) who were in her care. (
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SAD: Nanny Yoselyn Ortega (in an old college pic, left) spoke yesterday after a suicide bid and alleged murder of two Krim children (right) who were in her care. (
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The nanny who allegedly slaughtered two Upper West Side children in her care woke up yesterday — and asked about her own family, sources told The Post.
Yoselyn Ortega — who a source said suffered a broken vertebrae in a failed suicide bid after she allegedly butchered 6-year-old Lucia and 2-year-old Leo Krim — had been unable to speak since Thursday’s rampage.
She has since undergone surgery and is “talking a little,” according to a source.
Investigators returned yesterday to Ortega’s New York Hospital bedside in a bid to learn what sparked the horrific slayings of the Krim siblings, sources said.
Ortega, 50, has lawyered up and won’t answer questions, said one source. She did speak to her doctor and “asked about her family,” the source said.
NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Ortega remained intubated yesterday.
Ortega shares a Harlem apartment with her sister, her niece and Ortega’s 17-year-old son, Jesus, who recently moved from their native Dominican Republic and attends a Bronx high school.
A search warrant executed on the nanny’s apartment turned up no clues of a motive in the slayings, according to another source.
The children’s grieving parents, CNBC exec Kevin Krim and wife Marina Linsley Krim, yesterday remained in seclusion with surviving daughter Nessie, 3 1/2.
The family left a Manhattan hotel early yesterday with friends, according to an employee.
Nessie had been with her mom at swimming lessons at the Jewish Community Center near the family’s West 75th Street apartment when the carnage took place.
Mom and daughter were happy and smiling as they left, a worker there recalled. They had planned to meet Ortega, with Lucia and Leo, for Lucia’s dance class at the nearby Kaufman dance studio at around 5 p.m.
But Ortega, who brought the kids home from school at around 3:30 that day, never showed up.
Marina Krim returned home shortly after 5:30 to find the nanny stabbing herself in the throat in an apparent suicide bid, and her two young children dead in the bathroom.
The tragedy has brought an outpouring of sympathy from strangers across the country, including one who posted an online message, “All the people are crying with you.”
Friends of the family also voiced their heartache and offered prayers and condolences on Facebook, where several relatives had posted tribute photos of the children.
In one poignant shot, Kevin’s sister Sarah walks hand in hand in New York with Lucia.
In another, aunt Katie Krim embraces her brother’s three beaming children alongside a caption that read: “The loves of my life, my angels.”
Additional reporting by Rebecca Rosenberg and Reuven Fenton