CLOSE BOND: Nanny Yoselyn Ortega and her dad, Rafael, sit with two of the Krim kids, Nessie and Lucia. (
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Relatives of the nanny who allegedly killed two angelic children under her care on the Upper West Side were shattered by the loss of the kids they had loved like their own family.
Milaydys Ortega, sister of accused killer Yoselyn Ortega, was overcome with grief yesterday — and said her sister gave no indication anything was wrong when they last spoke, days before Thursday’s massacre.
“Only God knows. Now there are two families that are destroyed,” the tearful woman told The Post at the home of her father in Santiago, Dominican Republic.
The father, Rafael, was too distraught to speak. Yoselyn Ortega, 50, was on a ventilator yesterday at New York Hospital and unable to speak after stabbing her own throat with such force that she broke a bone in her neck.
The suicide attempt came moments after she allegedly butchered Lucia and Leo Krim, ages 6 and 2.
The unspeakable murders shattered a bond between the families that had been forming since Yoselyn began caring for the children in 2010.
The Krim family had even visited them in the Dominican Republic during a vacation and were thinking about buying a home there.
Milaydys clutched a copy of Friday’s Post, which featured a picture of mother Marina Krim wailing in an ambulance as she was taken from the crime scene to a hospital.
“Lulu! Lulu!” Milaydys wept, referring to Lucia. “Oh, my beautiful, beautiful Lulu.”
Yoselyn’s son, Jesus, 17, told Milaydys that the Krims’ children had been like his own siblings.
“Auntie, I know it couldn’t have been my mother,” he said. “Those kids were like my brother and sister.”
Yoselyn, who allegedly used two knives to kill the kids, slashed her wrists before stabbing herself in the neck as Marina walked in on the horrible scene, police sources said.
Detectives were still unable to interview Yoselyn, who was sedated and unable to speak. She can only nod and blink in response to questions, the sources said.
Yoselyn had battled physical, mental and financial issues in recent months, law-enforcement sources said.
Milaydys said their father was devastated.
“[He] is sad. He’s completely destroyed,” she said. “His nerves — he just can’t take it anymore.He can’t even talk about it.”
Her sister Celia quoted Rafael as saying, “I don’t know what happened to my daughter.”
Celia said he comforted her over own her feelings of guilt for introducing Yoselyn to the family.
“Don’t worry, Celia. You don’t have control [over your sister],” she said he told her.
Rafael broke out in tears when approached by a Post reporter outside his home.
Detectives were still poring over the West 75th Street apartment in the building, La Rochelle, for evidence of a motive.
“They’re still looking for clues because she’s not talking,” said one law-enforcement source. The cops removed bags of clothes and a desktop computer from the apartment.
For the second day in a row, scores of mourners passed by, piling flowers, stuffed bears and signs to memorialize the children.
According to a report yesterday, the slain children’s father, Kevin Krim, 37, told friends, “We’re obviously heartbroken,” in a text message sent Friday.
“Thanks for your concern,” the CNBC executive added, according to People magazine. He also told pals that his surviving daughter, Nessie, “is doing fine.”
Additional reporting by Erin Calabrese, Larry Celona and Rebecca Harshbarger