New York Daily News

Nanny heard ‘voices,’ 2nd sister claims

- Shayna Jacobs

SHE HEARD voices, she may have seen Satan, she had “something inside her.”

That was the testimony Tuesday of the older sister of Yoselyn Ortega, the Upper West Side nanny now on trial in the cold-blooded stabbing deaths of two children.

The lawyers for Ortega, 55, who’s charged with killing Lulu Krim, 6, and Leo Krim, 2, are hoping the sister’s statements will bolster their insanity defense.

Delci Ortega, 60, said her sister was “transforme­d” and saw things that weren’t there.

“She wasn’t herself,” the sister said.

The older woman said the nanny had gone from a cheerful woman to being withdrawn.

During Mass about 10 days before the attack, Yoselyn Ortega saw the specter of a “black man,” the sister said.

“Who was the black man?” defense lawyer Valerie Van LeerGreenb­erg asked.

“I don’t know. Satan? The bad one,” the sister said, acknowledg­ing she was just speculatin­g. The judge wasn’t having it. “We’re going to strike that guess from the record,” Justice Gregory Carro said.

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