BBC News, 28
November 2012
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| Ortega had been employed by the family for two years before the childrens' killings, police said |
Yoselyn
Ortega entered the plea in hospital, where she is being treated for stab
wounds. Police say she stabbed herself after killing the children.
Ms Ortega,
50, has been charged with murdering Lucia Krim, six, and her two-year-old
brother Leo on 25 October.
Their
mother, Marina Krim, returned home to find the children dead in a bathtub and
Ms Ortega bleeding heavily.
Father
Kevin Krim, a CNBC television executive, was away on a business trip.
On
Wednesday a judge ordered Ms Ortega held without bail pending a psychiatric
examination.
Ms Ortega
was handcuffed to a bed at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
in New York's Manhattan borough during the proceedings.
She wore a
blue hairnet, had a tube in her throat, and lay under a white blanket,
appearing alert, the Associated Press reported.
No flowers
photographs or other personal items were displayed in the hospital room.
Ms Ortega
was charged with four counts of murder.
She entered
her pleas through her lawyer, Valerie Van Leer-Greenberg, who said: "I ask
you to enter a not guilty plea on behalf of my client."
Ms
Leer-Greenberg told a judge her client was "profoundly, medically impaired
and in need of medical attention".
Mrs Krim
had chronicled her children's upbringing in a blog, Life with the Little Krim
Kids, which has since been taken offline.
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