After being formally charged by the Manhattan Public prosecutor, Dominican Yoselyn Ortega declared that she is innocent of the murder of two children in her care, six-year old Lucia and two-year old Leo Krim, on October 25 in New York City.
The nanny herself was severely injured in her neck, supposedly self-inflicted, after allegedly murdering the children in a bathroom in their home in Manhattan.
She was charged in the hospital, handcuffed to her bed and appeared weak but alert. She did not speak during the ten-minute hearing but her lawyer Valerie Van Leer-Greenberg, considered one of the boldest lawyers on the east coast, said that she was innocent.
The judge in the case, Lewis Stone, has ordered a psychiatric examination for Ortega to establish whether she is able to be tried until which time she will be either in hospital or jail without bail.
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