“They are angels now,” ....clings to the thought of her sister’s innocence. JR

I open the newspaper and read and over read this note or new or how to called it.. I am father of 4 and can not image my reaction in a similar case or less violent. What can be behind the story we read today? A bad moment and she decides to revenge some domestic violence with children.? Her defended lawyer will bring bipolar attitude or some today's common excuse to reduce the crime to a 5 degree murder.  BUT why is happening.  What can be the social trigger to activate a crime like this. Lets follow the case .. .. JR.  



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Killer nanny's sister can't comprehend how Yoselyn Ortega allegedly butchered two children on upper West Side  

'This isn't the Yoselyn we know,' says sister Mylades Ortega. Nanny is accused of killing Leo and Lucia Krim before trying to take her own life BY EDGAR SANDOVAL IN SANTIAGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND LARRY MCSHANE / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

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Mylades Ortega, 58, older sister of accused Manhattan killer nanny Yoselyn Ortega, weeps as she looks at photos of her sister in her Los Alamos, Dominican Republic, home Saturday.

Mylades Ortega can’t accept the chilling news about her baby sister: How cops say the killer nanny butchered two innocent kids, then tried to take her own life.“This isn’t the Yoselyn we know,” said Ortega, 58, going through family photos in her quaint home in the Dominican Republic, evoking memories of the time before her sibling was branded a murderous pariah.Her eyes were red and swollen as she produced a recent holiday card from her sister’s upper West Side bosses, showing their three small kids — a smiling Leo Krim, along with older sisters Nessie and Lucia.

“She loved these children like her own,” said Ortega, unable to fathom what caused her sister’s alleged homicidal breakdown.

Leo, 2, and Lucia, 6, were found dead Thursday inside their apartment on W. 75th St., their clothed bodies inside a blood-soaked bathtub. Sources said Lucia had wounds on her hands and lower arms, suggesting she tried to fight off her nanny..

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Melissa Gerstein and her daughter Sydney, 3, pay respects at makeshift memorial for Krim children.

“They are angels now,” said Ortega, who had held little Leo in her arms just eight months earlier when the Krims vacationed in the Dominican Republic with the Ortega family. Ortega could recall her sister’s better days. But she couldn’t recall the last time she had slept, and she wished she could change one thing. “If I could turn the days back,” she said. “If I could just do that.”

Born May 1, 1962, Yoselyn was the youngest in a family of six children in Santiago, a city of 1.5 million people.“She is the baby,” Ortega recalled. “From the beginning, she was always very loving and cheerful. She was the friendliest of us all.” As a little girl, she focused on a career in accounting, and she later earned her degree at the Universidad Catholica Madre y Maestra.

In her teens and 20s, Yoselyn began visiting New York and thought about leaving her homeland. “She loved New York and talked about moving there,” Ortega recalled.

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 Family holiday card sent to Mylades Ortega in 2010 by the Krim family featured adorable photos of Lucia (r.), Nessie (l.) and baby Leo.

Once she did, Yoselyn landed a couple of jobs — including one at a midtown printing company, the sister said. It was another sister, Celia, who steered her into becoming a nanny.

Yoselyn “always loved children,” said Mylades. “Our other sister, Celia, had been baby-sitting for many years now. She’s the one that got her into that job.” Yoselyn met the Krims just two years ago, and they quickly became “like one family.” Ortega loved the three Krim kids, and mom Marina Krim embraced Yoselyn’s son Jesus, 17. “Marina used to say, ‘I have four children,’ ” Ortega recounted. “She considered Jesus one of her own.”

Both clans shared a three-day family vacation in the Dominican Republic in February, with the Krims cutting coconuts, enjoying the sights and photographing dogs — animals they adored.

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The home of Mylades Ortega, sister of nanny Yoselyn Ortega, in Santiago, the Dominican Republic. The Krim family vacationed in the Dominican Republic with Yoselyn just eight months ago.

“We had close moments, of love, like one big happy family,” Ortega said. “Lulu (Lucia) would run around and talk to me in Spanish. She would call me Aunt LeLe: ‘Aunt LeLe, let’s go cut flowers.’ Yoselyn taught Lulu Spanish. Lulu was even teaching her mom Spanish,” Ortega recalled between sobs. “I carried Leo, that beautiful baby boy, in my arms.”

The Krims went to a resort and returned a few days later to say their goodbyes — with an offer to come back whenever they wanted. “Marina loved this city,” said Ortega. “She said she wanted to buy a house here. I told her, ‘No, no. This is your house.’ ”

But dreams of a happy reunion disappeared in the nightmare of a phone call with word of the brutal slayings.

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Family photo of Yoselyn Ortega (at right), nanny accused in senseless slaughter of two young children.

Ortega spoke Friday with Yoselyn’s son, Jesus. “He told me, ‘She didn’t do this. This is not her,’” said Ortega, tears spilling down her cheeks. “We don’t know what happened,” she continued. “There was never any indication of anything like this happening. Only her, the children and God know.”

The nanny’s older sister wishes she were in New York, that she could wrap her arms around Marina Krim. “That poor mother,” she said. “I can’t imagine. Yoselyn is a mother. She could never do this to another mother. The father. They are destroyed.

“If I could talk to Marina, I would say I want to hug her,” she continued. “Please find strength in God.”

Ortega, with the picture of the slain little boy in her hands, then moaned softly: “Oh, my Leo . . .” Then she kissed his photo and placed it back inside a chest of memories.

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Undated family photo of Manhattan nanny Yoselyn Ortega (left), who allegedly killed two children under her care.

She said she plans to go to New York and follow the case should it end up in court. She clings to the thought of her sister’s innocence.

“We still don’t know,” she said. “The police will do their investigation and get all the facts. We still can’t believe she did this to people she loved so much.” The NYPD has yet to question the nanny who slit her own throat in front of Marina Krim when the mom came home to the horrifying scene of her dead children. Ortega was out of a medically induced coma Saturday but still intubated, police said. Her condition was not expected to immediately change and she hasn’t been charged.

No one in the Ortega family has yet told their elderly father on the island about the murders. They fear the news could kill him. “He’s too delicate,” said Ortega. “He could not handle this.”

With Amanda Mikelberg