Five jurors have been selected to serve on the trial of the nanny accused of butchering two children in an Upper West Side bathtub — with one of the women nearly breaking down after she was impaneled Monday.
“I feel forced,” the woman said, her voice shaking, after she was seated on Yoselyn Ortega’s case, which is expected to last
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Ortega, 56, is accused of hacking to death Lucia Krim, 6, and Leo Krim, 2, in 2012.
“How do you feel forced?” visibly irate Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Gregory Carro, who’s questioned hundreds of prospective jurors since Feb. 5, asked incredulously.
“I feel very stressed out about thought through this process,” the woman confusingly responded — leading multiple prospective jurors to snigger.
Carro, turning to the gallery, used her to warn others not to “sit here and roll the dice. Sometimes it comes up snake-eyed.”
Other potential jurors said the case was too close to home — “I’ve had kids raised by nannies” — while another said that his Catholicism prevented him from sitting in judgment of others.
Defense attorney Valerie Van Leer-Greenberg admitted Tuesday the case is “about two beautiful, little kids that were killed. Horribly killed.”
If convicted of the top count, Ortega faces life behind bars.
