They treated their nanny like gold — and she repaid them in blood.
The grandmother of the two upper West Side kids allegedly butchered by their baby-sitter says the family "bent over backwards" for the caretaker — even paying for Yoselyn Ortega's trips back to her native Dominican Republic.
From day one — after the nanny's sister Celia Ortega made the deadly introduction that led the suspected killer to the children — the Krims treated "Yosi" like one of their own.
"They were always doing things that were just fabulous for her," Karen Krim, the mother of the children's dad, CNBC executive Kevin Krim, told the Daily News Friday.
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"I'm just astounded, and I have no idea why something like this would happen. They just bent over backwards being nice to this woman."
Karen Krim said the nanny had always been an angel — at least on the outside.
"They treated her like family," she said of Ortega. "My daughter-in-law, if she thought there was anything wrong, she would have never left the two with her. This had to be something simmering inside this woman. Obviously, she went insane.
"We're just having a really, really hard time here," Karen Krim added. "We're all falling apart. . . . It's the worst nightmare any parent could ever have."
Karen Krim spoke from California a day after her 6-year-old granddaughter, Lucia, and 2-year-old grandson, Leo, were found stabbed to death in her son and daughter-in-law Marina's posh apartment on W. 75th St.
The barbaric slayings capped a downward spiral for Ortega, the mother of a 17-year-old son, Jesus.
"I'm so sorry. I don't know what happened," Celia Ortega, 53, said from her Bronx apartment. "I know the kids. My family is very, very sad."
Racked with grief over the deadly job reference, she broke down in tears.
"I would hug her. I would hug him," she said of the slain siblings. "I would say, 'I'm sorry.' I would give my life."
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Nanny Yoselyn Ortega is removed from the building on W. 75th St. after allegedly killing 2 of the children in her care.
Celia Ortega couldn't comprehend the killing."She loved the kids," she said, adding that Ortega took care of two other kids previously. "She loved Marina."
Still, relatives told cops she had recently started seeing a psychologist.
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Lucia Krim, 6, was discovered dead from multiple stab wounds in the family's bath tub along with her 2-year-old brother Leo.
"Apparently over the last month she was not herself," NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said. "There were financial concerns. She was seeking professional help and people noticed she wasn't herself."
Marina Krim was returning home from a swimming lesson for her third child, 3-year-old Nessie, at the Jewish Community Center when she walked into her darkened apartment about 5:20 p.m. Thursday, cops said.
Yoselyn Ortega, who picked up Lucia at Public School 87 at 3:20 p.m., was supposed to have met Krim at a dance studio on W. 68th St. with Lucia and Leo — but was gone by the time the mom arrived.
Seeing no sign of the kids or their nanny inside the apartment, Krim went downstairs and asked the doorman if he had seen the trio leave. He said he had not, and Krim and Nessie returned to the apartment.
Just as the mom stepped into the bathroom, Ortega began maniacally stabbing herself in the neck with a kitchen knife. The nanny had also sliced her wrists, police said.
Lucia and Leo's bloody bodies were lying in the bathtub. Lucia had multiple cuts and stab wounds, while Leo's throat had been slit, authorities said.
Krim started screaming, and at some point, the super showed up and confronted the wounded nanny.
"First, I heard bloodcurdling screams. Then I heard a male voice, accusatory, saying, 'So you cut her throat?' " said Rima Starr, 63, a retired music therapist who lives on the second floor near the Krims.
"I now realize that was the super talking to the nanny."
A hysterical Krim rushed to the lobby and collapsed, clutching Nessie as she wailed uncontrollably.
"She kept screaming at the top of her lungs over and over again, 'I'm never talking to her again,' " Starr said. "Then she'd be screaming at her baby. A bloodcurdling scream, saying, 'You'll be all right!' over and over again.
"In lucid moments, she said, 'I need a doctor.' Then she started screaming again from the depths of her stomach.
" Not saying anything, just screaming. It went on for an hour."
Marina Krim and Nessie were taken by ambulance to St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital.
Ortega was in a medically induced coma at Weill Cornell Medical Center Friday, intubated and unable to talk. She had a "deep wound to the throat," Browne said.
Why she launched the brutal attack remained a mystery, police said.
"We have not had the opportunity to speak to her," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
A police source said the Krims told detectives there were no arguments or fights with Ortega prior to the violence.
"The kids looked normal. The nanny looked normal," said neighbor Charlotte Friedman. "She had a poker face. There was no indication that something like this was going to happen."
Little Lucia appeared full of joy and told Friedman she had just gone dancing.
Friedman, who lives on the seventh floor, said she typically ran into the nanny a couple of times a week and always greeted her with a smile — but Ortega never reciprocated.
"She wasn't warm," Friedman said. "Usually when you smile at a nanny and the kids, the nanny smiles back. It's instinctive. But she had a poker face. I didn't get the sense she was evil, just cold."
Ortega's neighbors in Hamilton Heights said the deeply religious woman ran a side business selling makeup and sometimes complained about being broke.
"She had said that someone owed her 100 or 200 dollars for makeup she sold," said Maria Lajara. "She said, 'Someone owes me money. Pray for me.'"
Lajara said Ortega, 50, adored the Krim children.
"She was very happy with the work," Lajara said.
"She liked the kids. She would show pictures of them. She was happy with her boss and never had any problems. She must have lost her mind."
Another neighbor said Ortega begged her for work about two years ago.
"She said, 'I'll clean. I'll do anything,' " the neighbor recalled.
Karen Krim said her son and his wife lived for their kids.
"Our poor son. He was such a wonderful father," the grandmother said. "The thing I'm most proud of him for is he was such a fabulous father."
Karen Krim said that the family hired Ortega two or three years ago. Whenever they left town with the children, the Krims would buy Ortega a flight back to the Dominican Republic.
The News on Friday obtained a photograph of Ortega, showing her clutching little Lucia and her sister Nessie while the Krims were on a family trip to the Dominican Republic in February. They stayed part of the time with Ortega's relatives. The girls, smiling wide, were captured in matching embroidered tan outfits and holding pink flowers.
The slayings rattled the leafy, well-heeled neighborhood, which teems with stroller-pushing nannies. Scores of well-wishers, many of whom didn't even know the Krims, dropped off flowers outside their building.
"Dear Krim Family," read a note wedged into the mountain of bouquets. "We weep with you at your horrible loss. There are no words that can express our sadness. We pray for you and your beautiful children."
With Amanda Mikelberg, Kerry Burke, Kerry Wills and Heidi Evans
rschapiro@nydailynews.com
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