New York Daily News

Nanny juror ‘cried,’ would vote ‘guilty’

- Shayna Jacobs

HER PART is done, but it will never be over.

An alternate juror released Tuesday from the trial of the Upper West Side nanny who savagely killed two small kids in 2012 said she was deeply affected by the horrible case.

“I don’t think I’ll ever be the same,” said Chloe Beck, 31, who was sprung after more than six weeks of testimony. “I would leave and go cry in the bathroom.”

Deliberati­ons in the first-degree murder proceeding against nightmare nanny Yoselyn Ortega began just after 11 a.m. Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court. The jury will return Wednesday.

Beck, who as an alternate does not get to deliberate, said she would have convicted Ortega because “the way (the defense) explained her mental health issues” did not warrant a finding of not guilty by reason of insanity.

Ortega concedes killing little Lulu and Leo Krim, 6 and 2, in their W. 75th St. apartment on Oct. 25, 2012. She says she was too mentally ill to be held legally accountabl­e.

Fellow alternate Brittany Yee, 27, agreed with Beck.

“I think she had the capacity to understand her conduct and the consequenc­es of her conduct,” she said.

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