Jury selection began today, Monday following years of pre-trial litigation over Ortega’s mental state. As Yoselyn Ortega, 55, stands trial for the murders of Lulu and Leo Krim, 6 and 2. her lawyers are expected to enter a psychological defense.
Potential panelists will be asked to sit through a three to four month proceeding packed with psychiatrists’ expert testimony, as well as witnesses to the heartbreaking aftermath.
Ortega stabbed herself in the neck after she fatally knifed the helpless children inside the bathroom of their family’s W. 75th St. home on Oct. 25, 2012, prosecutors allege.
Their mother, Marina, who had been out with their 3-year-old sister, was the first to find the unthinkably tragic scene: her blood-covered children in the bathtub, each having been stabbed multiple times.

Court having decided that killer nanny Yoselyn Ortega, is fit to stand trial  has her facing a jury will finally  more than five years after the horrendous slaying of toddlers in her charge

6-year-old Lulu and her brother Leo Krim, 2, were fatally stabbed in their family home

“I could hear really loud, hysterical screaming — world-class screaming,” an elderly neighbor said.
Marina Krim is expected to be a witness at the lengthy Manhattan Supreme Court trial before Justice Gregory Carro.
Prosecutors will aim to prove that Ortega, who had been a close and trusted part of the Krim family, was coherent and made a conscious decision to take the children’s lives