New York Daily News

Shrink: Nanny had delusions

- Shayna Jacobs

A RENOWNED forensic psychiatri­st who diagnosed the Unabomber’s mental illness, testified Thursday that a Manhattan nanny accused of murdering two children didn’t know what she was doing.

Phillip Resnick took the stand in Manhattan Supreme Court and said Yoselyn Ortega suffered from hallucinat­ions and delusions and had a “dissociati­ve episode” when she allegedly killed Lulu and Leo Krim, 6 and 2, in their Upper West Side home on Oct. 25, 2012.

“Ortega was psychotic. I mean she was out of touch with reality,” Resnick said.

The expert, who gave his opinion in the case of prodigy-turnedterr­orist Ted Kaczynski, rejected prosecutor­s’ claims that Ortega, 55, murdered the kids to spite their mother.

If the jury believes Ortega’s insanity defense, she'll likely spend the rest of her life in a psychiatri­c institutio­n. If she’s convicted of murder she faces life in prison.

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