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Nanny Accused of Murdering Children Rejects Plea Deal

By Emily Frost | April 15, 2016 2:35pm
 Yoselyn Ortega, 50, in an online photo of her with two of the Krim children, including Lulu (R), who police say she killed with a knife in the family's home on October 25, 2012.
Yoselyn Ortega, 50, in an online photo of her with two of the Krim children, including Lulu (R), who police say she killed with a knife in the family's home on October 25, 2012.
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UPPER WEST SIDE — The nanny accused of stabbing and killing two Upper West Side children rejected a plea deal Thursday that would have meant serving 30 years to life in prison, according to the District Attorney's Office. 

Yoselyn Ortega, 53, rejected an offer by Justice Gregory Carro to enter a guilty plea in exchange for a 30-year-to-life prison sentence — a 15 years-to-life sentence for each of the children she allegedly killed while they were in her care — according to the DA. 

The DA is asking for a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for Ortega.

On Oct. 25, 2012, Ortega fatally stabbed Lucia and Leo Krim, 6 and 2 respectively, in their family's West 75th Street apartment before turning the knife on herself and slashing her throat, police said. She later recovered from her critical injuries.

Ortega has been in and out of court since then as her lawyer Valerie Van Leer-Greenberg has argued she is mentally unfit for trial. 

Her lawyer did not immediately return request for comment. 

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