A New York nanny suspected of killing two young children of a Manhattan couple last month has been arrested and charged with murder in their stabbing deaths.
The nanny, Yoselyn Ortega, was arrested over the deaths of six-year-old Lucia Krim and her toddler brother Leo, who had been days shy of his second birthday.
Marina Krim found her son and older daughter stabbed to death in the bathtub as she returned home on 25 October from a swimming lesson with a third child, three-year-old Nessie, who was unharmed.
The nanny, who remains hospitalised and under guard, then began stabbing herself in front of the children's mother in the apartment on Manhattan's affluent Upper West Side.
Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne said that Ms Ortega, 50, was charged with two counts of first degree murder and two counts of second degree murder over the killings, which sent shock waves through the city.
Ms Ortega had been employed by the Krim family for two years before the killings and lived with her son and sister near the Krims' apartment off Central Park
She was apparently referred to the Krims by another family, police have said.
On the evening of the killings, Marina Krim had entered the apartment with her middle child after Ortega failed to meet them as planned at a local dance studio with the two other children.
Ms Krim saw that the apartment was dark and returned to the lobby to ask the doorman if the nanny and kids had gone out, police said.
The doorman said no, and she returned to the apartment and went into the bathroom, where she found the children.
Kevin Krim, the children's father and an executive with CNBC, had been heading home from a business trip.
He was met by police at the airport and notified of the killings, police said.
